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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Fictional Worlds & the Force of Fiction
Novels wield more force than films because they involve readers actively whereas films make viewers passive recipients.
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Authors of Colour Querying White-Skinned Agents
A novel’s birth has a threefold journey: writing it, finding an agent, and then the agent’s selling it to a publisher. Of these, writing the novel seems the easiest because the author has…
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#Language is a #Social Imposition
Language is a social imposition. It is also like a cage in which we live our lives half-heartedly. Of course, without language there would be little progress in the world of advancement. There…
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Power Transforms Negatively
Who doesn’t like to be in power? We all do, even though some trouble comes as part of the package. One gets used to power, enjoying and coping with the thrills and kicks…
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Publishing the Literary Novel Today
Writing something literary is one thing; publishing it is another. A great piece of writing comes from, you might say, the soul of an author. The soul is probably the vaguest thing on…
