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My Next Book, My Feelings
Now, when one of my new books is about to be published, I have mixed feelings. There was a time when the new book would keep me on a razor’s edge. There was…
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Day of the Book Release
I have mixed feelings on the day one of my novels is released. Of course, the sense of having delivered it to the world is somewhat like a mother must feel when she…
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Reading a Novel
Novels don’t only tell stories; they open up discourses. They enclose an interchange of ideas through conversations or narratives with inbuilt ideas. A novel can be described as a discursive and linguistic unit…
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The Improbable in Fiction
In fiction, the virtually impossible can happen; call it co-incidence, magic, or sheer chance. The important thing is that fiction breeds these less likely occurrences, which feed the curious reader’s mind. It is…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Literary Fiction & Shakespeare: A Scholarly Approach
I’ve written much on the nature of literary writing in my blog posts thus far but from now on for a few turns I will discuss two major issues: (a) What is Literary…
