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  • Writing a Story

    The writer’s mind undergoes transformation at several stages of the crafting of a story. The process of writing it can be compared to the four seasons that most of us experience. The first…

  • Rebirth & Fiction Writing

    The idea of rebirth always fascinates me. To me it makes a lot of sense. To examine this idea it is first necessary to consider what birth itself is and why we are…

  • Literary Fiction & London

    Literary Fiction and Space:  London in Dickens and Malkani The human experience captured in a literary novel is made up of time and space because we are always in a particular phase of…

  • Literary Fiction with a Purpose

    If Shakespeare wrote plays and poems that became the bases of literary fiction, he also some times wrote plays with a purpose. The best example of such plays is the group of plays…

  • Shakespeare and Jane Austen

    Shakespeare is now generally acknowledged as a writer with several facets. By all standards he seems to be a leader among writers. Harold Bloom has considered him to be at the centre of…

  • What makes a Writer?

    Writing comes when sources of fulfillment are blocked No one quite contented and happy would write anything to please people, particularly something about injustice, misfortune or suffering. The contented person would write only…

  • Literary Agents

    Literary agents and their meticulous work fascinate me. I presume several other authors feel the same about them. Perhaps agents are equally immersed in and captivated by the publishing process. Theirs is most…

  • Fair is Foul

    It is a fair world, I thought, as I grew up like a creeper. But I learned something different after some time. Fair is a subjective word. The boundary between fair and foul…

  • The Tailor's Needle follows this revelatory pattern in the storytelling

    What Makes One a Writer?

    No one happy with themselves would write something to be read by people. That could happen only if that happiness acquires excitement and thrill and one wants to share it with others. Generally…