{"id":5170,"date":"2018-10-31T13:49:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uvocorp.com\/freelancewriting\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2018-11-01T06:46:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:46:20","slug":"uvocorp-beyond-the-pages-meet-zahid-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uvocorp.com\/freelancewriting\/uvocorp-beyond-the-pages-meet-zahid-the-editor","title":{"rendered":"UvoCorp: beyond the pages. Meet Zahid, the editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uvocorp.com\/freelancewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00abCome to India, the melting pot of many languages, cultures and landscapes\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>I first got published<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when I was in 5th Standard. It was a one-page story for a comic book. Ever since, I never stopped writing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>My dream destination<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has always been New York because it\u2019s the Mecca of English language journalism. In India we have the equivalent of New York in Mumbai\u2026 even this city never sleeps!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>I like feature writing the most<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You can do anything you want, present the story in any way you feel is right. Food, shop, movie and gadget reviews or travel stories or people profiles. Editing just comes naturally to me; been editing for over ten years now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Every writer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> either excels in writing well or conveys the story with deeper meanings and symbolisms. I love the simplicity and humour of P.G. Wodehouse, the sharp and sparse writing of Ernest Hemingway, the Indianness in the books of R.K. Narayan and the childlike magic in Ruskin Bond\u2019s novels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>As a kid, I remember<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> telling my father repeatedly that I would make him proud by being written about in the papers. And here I am, being part of the media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In my past life sessions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I have experienced what I was in my previous births (although many religions don\u2019t believe in it, including my own). I feel that the soul we have is much, much older than we are. We are clearly people with many past lives. And every attribute of ours has some link to what our soul was earlier. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>I don\u2019t like doing routine things<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that don\u2019t challenge the intellect. Anything you do robotically deadens you as a person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uvocorp.com\/freelancewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2893.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3456\" height=\"2304\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>An ideal job, idea work environment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is one where you are independent of income, so you get to do what you want, and when you want it. I can work from anywhere: beach, park, forest, mountain, coffeeshop, and so on, but definitely not inside an office space. Nothing can beat working from my home office by the window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Editing makes the writing more crisp<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to the point and in line with the format required for the job. It makes the paper come alive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Read a lot of books<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Not textbooks or news magazines, but non-fiction or fictional books. Those books, no matter which author, will give you the tools you need to write well. The subconscious mind will imbibe from the books you read, and then when you write, all of that will be on display. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>It\u2019s impossible for anyone to live the lives of so many people<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who have walked this earth. But you can get a sneak peek into their lives through these books, and that should give you a basic foundation of how society came to be and how it has evolved. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Reading is like learning all the letters in the alphabet soup<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Without reading truly and deeply, you can\u2019t create any piece of writing that will stand the test of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>For writing, I would suggest <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPerforming Flea\u201d by PG Wodehouse, \u201cThe Write Way\u201d by Richard Lederer, \u201cOnly as Good as Your Word\u201d by Susan Shapiro, and \u2018Writing Down the Bones\u2019 by Natalie Goldberg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Success is happiness.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If you are happy, you are successful. If you are at peace with yourself, you are successful. If you are a billionaire but forever restless, you are most unsuccessful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uvocorp.com\/freelancewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3456\" height=\"2304\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>If I could choose one song to play every time I walk into a room<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the rest of my life, that would be \u2018Aayeho meri zindagi mein tum bahaar banke\u2019 from the Bollywood film \u2019Raja Hindustani\u2019. It essentially means \u2018You\u2019ve come into my life like a fresh breath of air\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>People make the company<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and at Uvocorp, I find every rule to be well thought-through and our feedback is constantly sought to make it even better. Of course, there are always issues, but the \u2018can do\u2019 attitude is what wins me over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Even editors have bosses <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who routinely go over our papers and spot inaccuracies and anomalies. We also get grades from A-D and our grades don\u2019t remain constant every month. It depends on the work done in the previous month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>If you are honest at your job,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> there will be no dispute and the editor will not make unfair changes either. 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