More than a writer, KD, aka Karandeep, prefers being an experiential traveler, a seeker of experiences, knowledge, and moments that would tickle anyone's heartstrings. An aspiring banjoist, harmonicist, scriptwriter, and whatnot, he earns his living by writing for small to medium businesses and individuals trying to market their services, products, or selves. Right from sales-oriented newsletters to clickbaity blogs and gripping website content to social media copy, his dabbling depth spans to ghostwriting novels and ebooks as well. You'll also come across dozens of his YouTube scripts written for brands in the entrepreneurship and SaaS space.
Karandeep has extensive experience in writing travel content for BBC, Thomas Cook, ByTheBoutique, and SaaS content for the likes of ClickUp and Oracle. To add, Karandeep has worked with reputed fashion and lifestyle brands that were built to resonate with and provide for younger audiences. His list of niches ranges from outdoor sports, DIY ventures, dreams, mythology, career development, gaming, side hustles, nootropics and supplements, ecommerce, fitness, and mental wellness to a further list that may be too long to add here. Above this, he has also written and edited 250+ scripts for PocketFM, a globally acclaimed audiobook platform. These experiences have invited Karandeep to interact and partner with a variety of established individuals in fields as diverse as cinema to digital marketing and sustainability to hospitality and culinary arts.
Speaking of career experiences, he graduated as an electronics and telecommunications engineer and gradually shifted to more artsy endeavors over the years. His first job started at Accenture as an Associate Software Engineer in Chennai, which he let go of within 45 days of joining. An AI course and 3 months of travel later, Karandeep landed a job as a data analyst at a food intelligence startup in Mumbai. Fast forward to 13 months later, and he shifted to the film industry. This project took Karandeep from working on a political documentary in India to another political-cum-thriller award-winning novel-turned-film, Curveball, in Los Angeles.
His time in the USA nourished his idea of the creative industry and the bosses running the show as opposed to individuals building their own artwork/scripts and then entering the industry. Presently, Karandeep juggles the skill set of writing for brands and businesses with honing his scriptwriting acumen. Not to forget, he recently celebrated his arrival into the artificial intelligence space as an LLM analyst. While he freelances full-time as a copywriter, content writer, and content strategist, he's always looking to secure a more experimental seat in the AI space that demands a humanized touch to train such bots.
As an individual, Karandeep tries to stir his pot of everyday experiences by indulging in sports like capoeira and ultimate frisbee. This craving for adrenaline, if not fueled by testing his creativity while storytelling, is satiated through off-the-path hikes and explorations of small towns or adventure activities that aren't necessarily tagged as "adventure" by all.
Adding onto this, Karandeep maintains a habit of journaling daily to keep his cycle of struggle-release-flow-recovery an ongoing process for his preferred variations of sanity. While initially it started with general everyday journaling, this style gradually evolved over time. What turned into journaling his nighttime dreams and interpreting them slowly took the form of braindump journaling, as suggested by Julia Cameron in The Artist's Way. Collectively, with his stint writing and interpreting dreams with seasoned dream analysts, this habit led to filling in journal after journal sprinkled with his intentions, habits, goals, downers, self-reflections, action plans, affirmations, secrets (both acknowledged and undiscovered), and a whole lot of free-flow text.
It's through analyzing these pages months later that he identified a distinctive writing style and thought process that he tries to weave into his personal writings. Either way, he believes his writing is far from its best and that partnering with a mentor or an experienced team of editors could help catalyze his upward strides.
Lastly, Karandeep loves old-school music, organic music festivals, experiential travel, frisbee, racket and ball sports, martial arts, stout beer, high-altitude treks, and Christmas.
Get in touch with him if you're looking for an experienced writer or simply looking to chat about topics of mutual interest.
Karandeep is also a published author. Here are some links for your reference:
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