Young Author Program – A Beginning
Exploring Haibun @ Rochelle Potkar’s Paper Asylum
Floods at Home
Name Game
@ JLF
Does Editing Change the Way you Write?
I’ve been editing manuscripts for a while now and I’ve noticed that it has changed the way I write a great deal. In the beginning of my career, I edited scientific literature. I learnt to read without reading at all. So I may have read a scientific treatise on ophthalmology … Continue Reading Does Editing Change the Way you Write?
Writing as Process
I found a cartoon on twitter by Tom Gauld…. This is exactly what is happening to my characters now. They are changing entirely. Women into men, children into women, men into monsters. The plot is not a straight line and neither are the characters. The material you thought you didn’t … Continue Reading Writing as Process
Writing and Background Score
Reading and Google
Return
For a long while now, I’ve been toying with the idea of revamping the website. That hasn’t happened yet but I suppose it will eventually. In the meanwhile I thought I should get back to blogging, something I still do where I work at InstaScribe. Recently I was part of … Continue Reading Return
Talking with Amy Gigi Alexander-Part 2
In Part 1 of this interview, Amy Gigi Alexander talked about writing and travel. She has many projects in mind and this interview explores how you can take up so many projects and do justice to each of them. Very often these days, we find ourselves steeped in a quagmire … Continue Reading Talking with Amy Gigi Alexander-Part 2
Talking to Amy Gigi Alexander-Part 1
Reading a poem
We had a book club session which I will be blogging about soon, and I found myself wondering what book had made such a supreme impression. There have been many, many books. I’m a fickle reader- I flit from book to book, linger on some pages, and then rush to … Continue Reading Reading a poem
Recovery
I must confess I am not through blogging. I blog a great deal where I work and that has led me to the illusion that I am blogging after all and have left nothing behind.But I have, of course. Waxing eloquent about poetry is not enough– you must pursue it, … Continue Reading Recovery
Count
In a new year mood (that has been dampened by the ways of the world) I visited my Submittable page(the page where are all your submissions to poetry and fiction journals can be recorded) and saw that my submission count of poetry and fiction has been so very limited! Why … Continue Reading Count
Easy Hat
Is creativity the easiest hat to wear? A magician’s hat? A poet has it easy- she writes poems if she is persistent, she publishes in several journals and starts making a name for herself. A writer writes a story, maybe an e-book that sells like hotcakes. Then he writes a … Continue Reading Easy Hat