When I started writing my first novel, I didn’t have any story. I just had one incident in mind that I witnessed as a little girl back in India. The son of our landlord, who lived in England, came to visit his […]
I wish someone had told me how to outline my novel when I started writing the first draft of my novel. I was expecting that the year-long novel writing course I signed up for would help me flesh out the story first […]
I must admit that my approach to novel writing so far has been wrong. So wrong, that I haven’t been able to finish the damn thing in five years, even though the plot is clear and characters are living in my head […]
Each year, panic starts around this time of the year – only two months for the year to end. It is even more evident if you keep a daily diary and pages start thining on the right-hand side. Still, a lot can […]
Many times we can’t figure out when an article or story should end. The same goes for books, whether it is fiction or non-fiction. As a writer, we have collected so much material that we keep on going long after the article, […]
When I was new to writing I had a question that puzzles every newbie writer. Write about what? Anne Lamott got asked this question a lot, and her advice to her students was – anything, just write about anything. But her students […]