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“I sat down near her, inhaling the aroma of the tea and the more subtle aroma of my friend. Yes, she did have some features more appropriate to angels than corpses.” This is how the protagonist describes his old girl friend in my novel With Darkness came Death . He is devoid of emotions, the normal…
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Like from a rare steak. I don’t understand the mindset that gets this thing going or stopping. It is like people living downstream of a dam who don’t hear the warning and drown in glee. Maybe the dammed-up creative waters will be released by unknown forces. I know there is no point worrying about this…
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It might be hard to detect the conflict and resolution
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I have not written a word for a while. I never knew that I could hit a roadblock of writing on a blog. My mind has gone blank, so it seems. The fourth novel I am on right now has turned out to be quite a headache. The lead character does not understand what he…
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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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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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A work of art has a life of its own. It is alive. It breathes and eats. You are its food. The characters you think you created, created themselves from the seed they planted in your mind.
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What is a story?
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