Ending Is The New Beginning

Pakistani author Sara Naveed writes on what’s considered a minority genre in her home turf. She discusses her love for writing romances…

- Vinay Agrawal

Sara Naveed’s writings are Mills & Boon meets reality. She has stuck to romances, but not the overtly sugary kinds. Her romances are wrapped in reality, with shades of grim, and acknowledge pain, strife and endings. There are no butterflies or fairy god mothers and angels. Instead, they are replaced by cruel forces of destiny and life. Her book, Our Story Ends Here, can be labelled as an apt replacement of ‘and they lived happily ever after’, if there was one. But, as destiny would have it…

In her words, she is more of a dreamer than a writer, someone who believes in fantasies and an escape from clock-work. She says, “Writing happened much later in my life. For me, writing is learning something new every day. I am still growing. Now, I sense a bit of maturity in my writing style.” Writing happened to her as an accident, or as she would say in her novels, ‘by the force of destiny’, and she is glad it happened. For someone who used to day-dream and invent stories and characters in her head without transferring them to paper ever, the realisation struck later.