Category: Tuning Up
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Difficult Dialogues
The spoken word is kind of critical; it gives us an insight to the kind of person we are dealing with. The way the words are put together. This has been a major criteria for me when and where to put in the dialogue How much of the narrative should be in conversation. How do…
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Doppelganger Week
Originally posted on Parwatisingari's Weblog: Savia Vegas image courtesy Google. #Fun #Fantastic. Last September I was at Mumbai airport, when someone hailed me, I stopped and looked back. A middle aged gentle man walked up to to me and said, ”Hi Savia” this is not the first time. At the Publishing Next conference, a charming…
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Who is the character
Until the Himalayan writing retreat I never thought about creating a character. It was about a narrative and characters just emerged, their interactions happened and me and my readers reacted to them to an extent judged them too. At the retreat for the first time I tried to analyse my characters, or rather build a…
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Plotting the Plot
A plot is the events that occur within the story they work on the principle of cause and effect. This occurs which results in that so this is the result. These plots could be very simple like a fairy tale, or very complicated like the magic induced sufi lore. The most common one used is…
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Writing Right Retreat
Noololyako chenni, noololyako the base voice of the singer was crooning. Asking his glamorous lady love, why doesn’t she spin? “ratiyillelo jaana ”she replies, that she needs a spinners wheel…the dialogue goes on in the nasal twang of the folk singers. Once upon a time these singers would never enter Durbar-e-khaas. But the song is…
