Pradeep VM
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I saw a question on Twitter about whether characters develop. I answered yes. My experience is not phenomenal. But I do know one thing. You start with a situation, a guy in that situation and after that is not in your hands anymore. I know, Stephen King said that much earlier. But even if you…
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Today I will try to lay the foundation of my beliefs embodied by my characters in my novels. The brain is just a mass of soft tissue, weighing barely one and a half kilos. And yet the power of this massive computing system should be the thesis of much work. Each brain is a node…
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The problem a novice faces in the publishing industry is that nothing carries as much weight as a well-known name. But you need the publishing industry to gain that name.
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The Munshi is a perplexing character. I know his name is not quite impressive. Even the persona of the Munshi which only means teacher is totally commonplace. But he baffles me.
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The Mahabharata war is over and millions lie dead in the battlefield of Kurukshetra. As the cremation function ends, Kunti the mother of the King, Yudhishtir, shocks everyone by her announcement that Karna is her son. But was he?
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My second novel the Conflict of Karna has been published. I am happy. It was more difficult to write because I had set myself some restrictions. I will not mention the restrictions now. The first reader to detect the restriction gets a prize of appreciation. I refer to just one restriction.
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Why do people write? Specifically, why do I write? I will speak for myself. Mainly because I am a newbie and have no standing in the world of authors. There is just one book to my name “The Village of Shadows”. Got that published on 26-Dec-2019. Now I wonder why I wrote that book. What…
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Right now I am in search of myself, because I seem to have lost touch with myself. The block appears endless. Words sound alien.
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English is like football. It is the language of the masses almost everywhere in the world. No, I did not mean that. Go to any place in the world and wander around a bit. You are likely to find someone who understands English. The people of England, seafaring warriors, and cunning to boot, carried the…
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