writing

  • I wrote a book: All Roads Lead Here

    What a mind-fuck it is to be writing a blog post for your own story but here we go. So! I finally gathered the courage to hit the publish button and one of my full-length stories is now available on Amazon Kindle and as a Paperback. And if you’re a subscriber of Kindle Unlimited, it’s

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  • The quest of the self

    The quest of the self

    Last year, I introduced on my blog something called as Listen to your Heart Song – handwritten notes from your wise child. It has evolved into a newsletter (for now) but thanks to that initiative, people who have known me came to know about a different side of me. A side that was into the

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  • Why I keep coming back to writing

    There are a lot of things in my life that give me solace. Books, food, desserts, looking at pretty things on Pinterest, a good shopping sesh, a very specific group of people. But if there’s one thing that makes me feel like I matter, like I have value, it is writing.

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  • Questions you shouldn’t ask a writer

    Telling someone I’m a writer has always gotten me a mix bag of responses. Some people look at me with envy. Some look at me with pity. Sometimes people will talk about how much the idea of writing scares them. Many times, I will hear a variation of: I have this amazing story – why

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  • What is effective storytelling

    We are all storytellers. Whether it is the stories we tell our friends – of incidents where we were the protagonist or how we were appreciated for something at work – or the stories we tell ourselves – maybe I shouldn’t eat this extra roti because I need space for dessert – we love telling

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  • If I had to choose… #BlogchatterBlogHop

    If I had to choose betweenreading or writingI would choose you readingFor all the joy and solace I find with youof discovering my next readLike a kid in a candy store.

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  • 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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