Journey of Becoming an Author
“Have the courage to do something, let your fear go, and See your
destination coming to your sands ”
(Hasfa Rashid)
Since childhood, I have been an average student in school but I always ran after knowledge because for me marks don’t matter.
My name is Hasfa Rashid and I have done my schooling till the 10th at City Central Educational Institute, Khanyar Srinagar. Then I pursued my higher education in the Arts stream at Green Land Educational Society, Hawal. At present, I am pursuing a Law (B.A.L.L.B) from Kashmir Law College. I became a published Author at the age of 19. I have authored the book “Ink and Paper “(let the word speak). The book is all about the poems and each poem serves a different view of love, struggle, pain, etc. In this book, I have written 15 English poems and 17 Hinglish poems which are 32 poems in total.
I don’t have any connection with any writer or author and I never learned writing from some experienced person in this field. I taught myself how to improve in this field of writing with so many mistakes. I am an introverted person and I was afraid to show my writing to anyone. The day I showed one of the poems about “one-sided love” people began to criticize me, many of them
taunted me, and people called me many weird names I was disheartened and never showed again my poems to people. After
some time, I participated in a writing competition and became the IST position holder.
This motivated me again to show up talent. And on this day I decided not to stop anything and promised myself to
move on, it was never easy to do but I tried my best. After a long phase, I worked as a co-author, and my first book as a co-author is “Being an Advocate”. This made me more confident and motivated and the people around me were surprised to know this, as I did it alone with my hard work, passion, and love for writing. The people around me were amazed and they appreciated my success. On this day, I understood people always have something to tell, whether you are doing anything or not doing anything. Moving on with this I got the “Top 10 Authors of India ” organized by the Life World community. And I was featured on the internet like Dailyhunt and Opera News. And I am the first in my family or relatives who have achieved this success. Becoming an Author, not only made me confident but also gave me a voice to speak up. Last year I received. the prestigious Award “Rabindranath Tagore Literature Award” and have also been featured as Top 26 Renowned Personalities of the Globe”.
I have been featured on many podcasts and also I am featured on many national and international platforms including Google.
Recently I have published my story book “Whispers of friendship and love “. It has 20 short stories based on friendship and love. I
have been so blessed, that the Almighty gave my pen so much power that I can achieve everything, which I always dreamed of in my life. I always thought to do something creative and different and today when I think about it, this gives me happiness and peace. I will always move on with new experiences in life and I will be giving my best in the writing field.
I can’t thank the Almighty for making me a
blessed child. From day one, I tried to do everything for my passion, and with the help of the Almighty, I will do more and more. For me, it is not the end but the beginning phase of the journey of evolving
as an author. You can catch up more on my page @_hasfawrites_
