Write.Ok.Please

  • Show don’t tell – thoughts on the writing aXiom

    I think one of my favouritest rules of writing – which has made the most sense to me – is show don’t tell. It took me the longest time to figure out what it meant though. It is the difference between saying He was scared and His throat was parched, his armpits were soaked in…

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  • Do you really need a writing style?

    The first time it occurred to me that I had a “unique” writing style was when someone reviewing my ebook called it “peculiar.” It didn’t sound too bad so I forgot about it. Which basically means I whined about it to a friend because I was too afraid to ask the reviewer for an explanation.

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  • Veni vidi vici

    Veni vidi vici

    I had a short story written for today. It was clever but I found I couldn’t abide my own writing. It may have been clever but it definitely wasn’t coherent. I tried rewriting it, I tried to salvage it, I tried to completely write another tale where I could use the phrase veni vidi vici…

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  • #BlogchatterA2Z Theme Reveal 2022: without prearrangement

    AtoZ has to be my favourite blogging challenge and ever since I started blogging in 2017, I have been participating in it. This is my sixth year and after the mistake I made in 2017 – where I didn’t know what a theme reveal was and had to do “stories” because I couldn’t think of…

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  • Suchita’s tryst with fantasy

    I did not know I was a fantasy nerd until an interviewer pointed out to me that ‘you basically love fantasy’ because when she asked me to name my favourite books, I said Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.

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  • I, Me, Myself

    I, Me, Myself

    Even after 4 years of blogging and being a marketer, the person I cannot market is myself. So I thought I’d write about the Blogging Commandment: Thou shalt promote thyself. Consequently, this post is only going to be about me. Or more accurately, about the 2 ebooks that I have on KDP.

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  • On writing and being authentic

    Writing is obscene. I don’t know if this is my statement or I read it somewhere but I think writing or being a writer is obscene.

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