Wavering eyelashes. Furrowed eyebrows. A familiar cut to the lips. Cradling a sleeping baby in your arms on an evening…
The rules of fiction are very different from the rules of writing non-fiction. And no one could be more surprised than me.
I am often scared to ask myself the question ‘Am I giving enough time to my art?’ I try to silence my inner voice whenever it hovers around that question. Most creative geniuses (not only writers) worked ridiculously hard to improve their craft and bring the exquisite finesse that we love in their…
I came a little late to my work desk a couple of days back hoping that this writing session would be a productive one, hoping that words would pour out and I’ll be able to put down the thousand words that I had promised myself for the day. Thirty minutes into the session, just as I…
There is a new podcast floating on the web called 10 Minute Writer’s Workshop. It’s about writers, pretty kick-ass writers, talking about the craft of writing and their own personal writing journeys. Last evening I heard Salman Rushdie talk about his craft in his usual self-assured…
Why do people write novels? It seems absurd. To be locked up in a room, marching ahead word after word, chapter after chapter, month after month…
In the last post, we talked about the guilt of a non-practicing writer. Every writer has at one point or the other in their writing careers faced a ‘non-practicing spell’ where they are unable to devote time to writing. In this post, I want to spend some time discussing writing routines that…
