Let's meet Sonia Motwani today. A budding sensation of poetry. She is the amalgamation of everything perfect you can imagine of.
1) What got you into writing and how has it prevailed till now, so aesthetically within your writings?
Initially I wrote to get the things out of my head but gradually as I devoted myself to the world of words and verse I discovered the untraveled regions of my soul and so here am I still exploring myself through writing.
2) Your WordPress account holds a thing about 'Writer's block', can you elaborate over it and regarding how you've faced it?
When I got involved with the writing communities, the term Writer’s Block was the most encountered phase that urged me to dive in its philosophy.Writer’s Block, as I stated in my blog is nothing but the mental state. Tame your mind of its inexistence and see how your heart follows it. I have always treated Writer’s Block as the phase where the reader in you has more unquenchable thirst compared to the writer in you. So basically it’s the time where one needs to read more in order to write more.
3) Your writings depict a lot of motivation, how do you eye upon the positive side of life?
The sole purpose of my writing is to help humans. It is not always about being positive or always preaching to be motivated but it’s the way of looking at life through the kaleidoscopic eye that makes even the broken look beautiful.Everyone is served with options but it’s the choice of choosing that creates all the difference.
4) You seem to be a supporter as well as a follower of humanity. How do you think one can push oneself towards humanity?
Humanity is indeed the broader term. Writing has made me better human so here am I giving out all that I have inhaled in me through words.According to me, KINDNESS is the only key to push oneself towards humanity and as I mentioned in one of my verse,‘Kindness is humanity and whatever you do, never cease at being human.’
5) Your poetry is generally freestyle. However, have you passed through a phase of using rhyming schemes in your poems? What do you think is better?
When I started writing, poems to me were something that rhymed so I began with all sorts of rhyming scheme in my poetry and I use to like the pattern it framed when sung.However, after reading different poets with avid writing pattern I started writing in free-style too and which to me was as appealing as the rhyming ones. But for me, poetry is the deep ocean without boundaries. Whether the writing is in rhyming scheme or in free-style it should carry the part of your soul in it.
6) What do you think helps you write better, personal experience or observation? And can you let us know why and what has been your best poem in reference to personal experience/observation?
The writer always is an observer first though the ink spills flawlessly through fluently through personal experience. For me it has always been personal experience over observations. It so happened that once I was told to be strong as man which led in me the chaos of gender comparison resulting in the poem as follows:
So apparently in this world
everything is but divided
The world, the land, the thoughts
All the things here are perfectly abided
And then comes to a long awaited list
A bifurcation of To-do section
That our great beings pre-described
With their own brainy perception
'oh, stop crying like a girl', would a mother exclaim
As if tears are sectioned in territory of female sex
Or 'Be strong like a man', would a father boom
To his daughter injured with the flex
The poor shy guy is an another lady
Or the boldly​spoken girl is a tomboy type
Men don't cry
Women don't protest
And the list of hypocrites
will have a never ending filthy crest.
7) One of your poems says, "There should be at least one person that holds you even at your worst. Be that." Are you a lover of your self and what inclined you to achieve that?
That is one of my favorite quote though. In the race of life we meet several humans. Some stay, some stay longer while some stays forever. But in the process of making them stay somewhere we let ourselves go. We forget that love always begins from within and you cannot love someone if you cease loving yourself at first place. Self-love is often being confused with ‘Selflessness’. I am a forever lover of self and the only thing that inclined me to achieve that is self-acceptance and self-worth. Accept yourself as you are and know your worth, you will surely fall deeply with human in you.
8) Are you more of a nature lover, or a people's person? Why?
Nature has the mystery that humans still failed to decode. I believe that nature and humans are all interlinked as mentioned by the eminent poet John Keats in his poem ‘Human Seasons’. Through my writing I always try to understand this god gifted aesthetic gift – Nature.
9) How do you go about your process of writing?
Writing is an ever learning process. It is all about feeling something that leaves you in endless thoughts and you can’t help but spill.When an inspiration strikes I usually pen down in my own weird ways which then undergoes refining process. The only thing that goes in my mind while writing is it should help people to be a better human.
10) Do you pen down poetry in your phone or any electronic device, or you use a paper and a pen? What difference does it make according to you?
The touch of pen and paper is like motherly touch to my writing. But you can never cub your ideas. It comes anytime and anywhere so when in rare case I don’t have my diary along I scribble in the notes of my phone.But according to me the ink spills my feelings fluently than any other medium.Thank you for this wonderful session. I thoroughly enjoyed answering.