writing

  • And thereby hangs a tale

    I sat there, staring outside at the misty road, the bustling populous, the colourful umbrellas as everyone tried to go about their day despite the downpour. The cozy cafe would have you believe it was a warm summer day but just a glance outside would tell you it was cold and wet and dreary.

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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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  • #AtoZ Challenge Theme Reveal 2018

    Meet Rishidhar Arpita Dinanath Hose Agarwal – Radha for short. He is a thirteen year old boy with an active imagination – so active that he had to be kept back in the seventh grade because he couldn’t rein it in for the requisite twenty-one hours; the time taken by examinations. As a result he’s

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  • What one year of blogging taught me about community

    While interviewing a long-time blogger, she said something very interesting – so interesting that it is stuck in my head. She said that while writing is a solitary exercise, blogging is a social activity. Though I had been blogging for about 11 months when I had that interview with her, it really struck me then

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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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  • What one year of blogging taught me about writer’s block

    I didn’t know writer’s block was a thing till I found myself staring at a blank page, the urge to write so strong it felt like a stomach ache, but the ability to actually put words onto the blank page sheer agony. I started to hyperventilate, sure the writing fountain that had opened up for

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