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Reading & Writing Fiction
Why this article? I am writing on a #wordpress #blog and the end is #digitalmarketing or simply #marketing. But of course, it is #contentmarketing that I strive for. Besides, the content of this…
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The Literary Writer
The desire to write, particularly stuff of the literary kind, arises in people of a certain type; people who don’t fit in well with society, or those that generally don’t remain in the…
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Jagjit Singh, that Shakespeare among ghazal-singers
Jagjit Singh is unique among ghazal singers, indeed a Shakespeare among them. I have written this sentence in the present tense for such a man never dies. He understood the value of words…
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The Voice of a Magical Realist Novelist
The voice of a magical realist novel has a distinctive role to play because through it the novelist tries to point out some inner realizations to the reader. In its successful delivery to…
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A Sequel and a Prequel
These days I am writing a sequel to my debut novel, The Tailor’s Needle, after eleven years of its publication. The publication of my first novel had a unique journey being published first…
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Writing the Magical Realism Novel
The Genius of Rushdie and Marquez Why are Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez, such extraordinary novelists? The answer is complex. But there is a reason for their unique achievement. The answer is…
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My Stories and Me
I write fiction because it completes the one I am. My mind observes the world through stories. Life’s like that, I tell myself. A story copulates with life. Indeed, my own identity springs…
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The Truth in Storytelling
The relationship between Beauty and Truth in Stories I love to tell stories. I want my stories to be beautiful tales about men and women that have moved out of the ordinary. What…