You think there is a book in you. It might be a memoir, or it might just be a novel. You are not sure. Some scenes keep playing in your head again and again. You have even met the protagonist. She comes […]
I was going through my old journals and discovered that my best writing was when I was writing ‘in the moment.’ I was more aware of the my surroundings, was using the senses to feel and was expressing what was going through […]
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 […]
Now that NaNoWriMo is close to finishing, I am ready to come out of self-imposed hibernation feeling relieved and ecstatic. Just short of 6751 words to win the challenge at the time of writing this post, I am fairly certain that I […]
NaNoWriMo has started and this year I am writing a non-fiction book. I am a proud participant in the program for eight years. This year my strategy is to write 600 words in the morning, 600 hundred during the day, and 600 […]
Reading and writing are two integral activities for writers. A writer must read and she must write. But lately, I have found that the more I read, the less I write. Why is that so? There are a few reasons for that. […]