writing
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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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Writing strong, climactic emotional scenes is always a daunting task. It’s all too common for a plot point to be emotionally impactful on paper but fall flat in execution. But I have learned a secret trick to unlock the latent magic in every scene and guarantee that emotional punch you, the author, are looking for.…
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Reading “Outlaw on a poem walk” from Poemcrazy was like being granted the permission to set the craziness accumulated in my brain free, for the first time in my life. I am all the better for it. Wanna set yourself free with me?
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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 