Welcome!

I’m Nikki, short for Nikhila Chalamalasetty. I’m so pleased to meet you here. This is your first step towards a beautiful journey of scribbles, I hope you are excited.

I still remember my first step as a writer. It was in 2017. I’ve shared this story a million times but I’m still as excited as I was the first time.

Again, it was 2017, March 16th.

I wasn’t sure what exactly provoked the thought but that day, I wanted to start a blog. I had no idea if I had to hire somebody to create the blog, what’s domain and hosting, nor how to begin a blog post. But I was determined and started a blog somehow – Nikki’s talk.

I worked on it day and night, from technical stuff to writing skills. And today, after 4 years, it is a source of income for me. Can you imagine how one idea could change someone’s life so much?

After one year, I met an author through Instagram, Nikhil Chandwani. I was encouraged to write a book and I was really perplexed to hear that. But an opportunity is an opportunity, it shouldn’t be wasted. So I wrote my first book and published it in 2018 – The Day I Started Flying.

Frankly speaking, if I read that now it looks really basic and unprofessional. In spite of that, people connected to the story more than the writing style, and I got a pretty good response for a first book. Then another book in 2020 – The Invisible Guardian.

All this time if there’s something that constantly improved, that’s my writing. In these four years, I grew so much as a writer. Life is a long journey of learning. We learn, learn, and learn.

In my experience, I learned that we all are writers. People say writing is not for everyone, but that is just a misconception. We all have stories we want to share with the world, and we all want our voices to be heard. We just have to figure out a way to connect to our innate writer-self.

And I believe, my journey as a writer just began. I hope you will become a part of it, too.

Cheers,

Nikki.