Self-publishing has never been as popular as it right now in the digital age. With books such as Still Alice by Lisa Genova, E. L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy and No Thanks by E. E. Cummings making it into the mainstream, we can say without a doubt that traditional publishing is far from being the […]
I have been writing poetry for a long time. I started when I was 12 and it seems I haven’t stopped. I was curious about this particular style of writing and at the time it felt like such an impossible thing to do. How a couple of lines could have such an enormous impact and […]
Writing competitions are always the answer but they are now more so than ever because we all like a little validation in the form of cash prizes. As we enter the third month of the global lockdown it is becoming increasingly difficult to cope. Whether it is knitting you took up during the quarantine as […]
Writing is oddly not as much about writing as you might think. Writing, for the most part, is a habit and you have to start treating it as one by incorporating it into your life. A writing routine or a habit will require that you build it as a muscle. Writing is largely about staying […]
March has been wild. There were days when I could bet it was summer upon us and then today in the morning (In April 2020) I was freezing and the first thing I did when I got out of bed was put on some socks and then curl back up in my bed. Very productive, […]
Virginia Woolf was far ahead of her time and there is so much we can learn about writing from her even today. From being a writer and creating something unique to being a publisher and deciding what is creative and what is mediocre; there is something every writer can take from her.
When the days came crashing I whispered promises into debris Made demon deals and blind dives into things you don’t return from But I wanted my skin off I was no butterfly and I was a wicked caterpillar I believed in nothing and with every feather I collected off the earth I wanted to fly […]
In the words of Stephen King himself “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work”. Writing is like any other skill that if you are working on today will build over time and you cannot even imagine how much further you will be in 6 months […]
Maybe it’s just me, but when the year started there were so many things, I wanted to get on top of. But the plan doesn’t always match reality. This is not to say that there has been no progress, but growth is far from linear. Here are a few of the writing commandments you should […]
I promise you sometimes the world is on my side. and I write the future. I let the trees grow their barks through walls and then they are homes no longer sometimes the pavement cracks open for a clover. sometimes a deer in the woods gets to decide the trickle down of planets. and when […]
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