Edinburgh is perhaps the only city in the world with a huge monument and a museum dedicated to its writers. Home to many famous writers — Robert Burns (1759–1996), Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), and Sir Arthur Conon Doyle, to name […]
Who are you writing for? Yourself or others? It is important to know the difference because the process and rewards vary significantly. Rohan’s blog A Learning a Day has a wonderful post on the topic which helped me clarify my thinking when […]
Don’t be scared of being a novice. Be scared of being Mr. Know All. When you reach the comfortable spot of knowing a lot about a field there is a danger to become set in your views. You lose the ability to […]
The biggest irony of human understanding is that we know that we are going to die one day but don’t accept it. The truth doesn’t sink in. We live as if death is something that happens to others while we will continue […]
The best writing project I ever took was to start a daily diary. I have introduced to the Bullet Journal two years ago and I immediately fell in love with it. Although initially, it was hard to remember to write every day […]
A lot of glories have been attributed to the humble act of walking by writers and thinkers. William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Henry David Thoreau were all avid walkers. Henry David Thoreau has written, “I think that I cannot preserve […]