Arin Basu5 days ago
I don’t sculpt from marble, seeing a shape in a block of stone. I sculpt with clay, building from a foundation. I
A Writer’s Mind
Gary Rogers
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Fascinating read. The author gives you a glimpse where his ideas come from. From observations of a mind that flows like a river. Easy. You see a word in your day job, and there is the start of a story.
It is said that the great sage, Valmiki, who wrote the Indian epic, Ramayana, started when he saw two crows. All our stories begin from, well, let’s say, spring from the world around us. The five skandhas, as The Buddha would say.
Then the mind. The story is always there. It needs an excuse. Go find it.