Meghana – behind the scenes

First, thanks a lot to all you guys, who spend some of your time reading the Meghana story. I hope you enjoyed it. I like thrillers and suspense stories a lot. But if you see all my previous blogs, the majority were “Love” stories ( few exceptions like “Enemy” etc…) So I decided to write a thriller and suspense (long) story. In fact, it was a kind of a ‘mini” Novel. But I was a little skeptical about the responses because people tend to favor love stories over thrillers here (Correct me if I’m wrong ). However, I started writing and was able to finish it up. Nevertheless, at the beginning of the series, I got very poor responses, so thought of scraping this story, but again changed my mind.

Here I just want to let you know a few behind scenes of Meghana's story. I hope you feel interested.

1) Sandhya was the name first I thought of for the main character Meghana. And I started writing the series with the name “Megana”, but changed it to Meghana (please check ‘h’) later on.

2) I initially thought of her profession as ‘Sales girl’. Later changed because BPO is more opt to the readers.

3) I thought of showing ‘Watch man’ in her PG as one of the main suspects. But later some reason, I didn’t put that.

4) Vijay’s father's involvement was not planned at the beginning of the story. Which I developed later.

5) All names were changed like Meghana's boyfriend's name was changed from Sumanth to Allush ( funny thing here is, allush is my daughter's friend name ), Meghana uncle's name was changed from Santhosh to Sudhakar Rao, etc.

6) Meghana's boss was also supposed to be one of the suspects, but that also got dropped. The main plot was not changed. The whole story was based on that point.

I have spent a month finishing this whole story. I wanted to use professional (like in Indian Novels, but not like in western novels) language while describing the scenes in this story, so I took a lot of care before posting it, like proofreading with my friend and editing multiple times, etc.

Finally, Let me know your views about this story ( I just want to know one more time) and if you haven’t read it, now the whole story is available in my blog. Please read it and let me know. Your comments mean a lot to me)

Bye, VJ