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Imagine: You’re a reader, browsing the shelves of a cozy bookstore. You’re skeptical about this store, and you pick up something on a whim. You open it up, and the FIRST PAGE hooks you instantly. Ask yourself…what goes into making that first page click? That’s exactly what I want to find out!
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Every writer is familiar with the word count conundrum. After pouring hours into a write-up, cutting it down to meet a word-limit feels oddly uninspiring. However, I’ve personally discovered that challenging myself to tackle ruthless word-counts through short story contests can act as a springboard to improve my longer projects and make my prose shine…
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It’s that time of the year for 10th graders, when we rediscover parts of ourselves that we lost while preparing for THE exam. After having spent five months buried in textbooks, it can be difficult drawing on beautiful experiences to write about, especially since there haven’t been any for a while. But I’ve come up…
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Writing, is hard. And the hardest part of it is the pre-work. Set aside the time, cancel plans, and sit down at the desk. Even though it sounds simple, it’s usually excruciating. But I’ve found some easy tricks to keep the process simple and sustainable, even when a thousand deadlines loom over the horizon. These…
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So I just read “Innards”, a short-story excerpt in the Summer edition of the granta literary journal. Written like a lyric on generational debt and trauma, ‘Innards’ blends the graphic truth with surreal fantasy with its unique narration and prose. This is a bold literary venture that plunges the depths of soul-seeking in literature.
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Meiyazhagan is a south-Indian movie about a middle-aged man who visits his hometown. It’s a story of love, friendship, the usual cliches, all interpreted in an extraordinary manner. Want to break it down with me?
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Cesspool is not a very pretty word. But things stay stagnant, latent, dormant in a cesspool. They’re frozen in time, just like your beautiful, chaotic, masterpiece of a mind. Want to dig through it to mine for gold with me?
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We all want to make our characters shine. We want to make them feel real, living and breathing. We want our readers to feel like they can reach through the screen and touch them. What if there is a way to make it happen? Want to try and find out with me?
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Transcendentalism. I mean, it seems self-explanatory. The romantics wrote poetry that translated love, beauty, passion, for the masses. They also interepreted the trenches of heartbreak, so much so that they dictated the way these words are used in modern philosophy. Here’s a few poems that can give you a sense of what I mean.
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I recently read a few poems out of The Poet X, a book by Elizabeth Acevedo. It was a poignant, heartfelt and raw allegory of a young poet in Harlem. It got me thinking about my own start as a poet, and I realized it has been quite the journey since that first poem about…
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