learning

  • Behind the closed gate

    It was after school (because what the students of class VII-B were about to do would never be possible with the teachers and the prefects and Ameen miss and all those people who insist on disciplining thirteen year olds).

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  • What one year of blogging taught me about writing

    Recently, I took an interview with a writer and filmmaker who compared writing to devotion – saying that any type of art is possible only when you surrender yourself to the art and let it guide you through the process.

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  • What one year of blogging taught me about readership

    Every time I hit publish on a blog post, I am visited by this bug of checking my stats every five minutes to know how many views, visitors, comments and likes I have got.

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  • What one year of blogging taught me about discipline

    There was a time in my writing journey where words like motivation and inspiration would dictate how much or if any writing I would do. I suppose I can forgive that naive girl since writing was a hobby for her and not something she thought she would be making a career in.

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  • It’s my one year blogiversary!

    On this day, a year ago, I decided I would start my blog. Enough people had told me to start one considering I had author dreams and enough people had looked at me with disdain when I had said, “No I am not a blogger; just a writer.” The time had come to have a

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  • Fix You

    Fix You

    “Why won’t you listen to me?” “You are one to talk!” she said with equal fervor. “Do you ever listen?” “Can we not go back to this? Every time I point out something, you point out something else. It doesn’t help. Why can’t you understand I am only…”

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  • How to be a loser? Learnings from #MyFriendAlexa

    So I knew what Alexa was, I was informed of its significance while working at an agency, but I didn’t bother with it till I started to read about My Friend Alexa Season 1 on Blogchatter’s timeline and how successful, etc. it was. I got curious and when I get curious…oh well let’s just say

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