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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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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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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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Let’s face it, we all have wondered what our writing style REALLY looks like. But I have come to realize that the answer has been staring me dead in the face all along. Want to try and find it with me?
Story Scientist 