Tag: NaNoWrMo
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Why Gratitude is So Necessary
“She was never there when I needed her.” “Everyday it was roti sabzi, in the lunch box, or for dinner. I had to throw sever tantrums for her to give me cakes or biscuits.” Swara’s complaints about her mother went on. Swara only seem to see the lack…lack of time that her mother gave her.…
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Setting My story
Setting is the time, place and situation in which the story occurs. Description is the material and words devoted to fleshing out that time and place. This provides the physical context and reality for the story. Setting is not ornamental it is integral nothing happens at nowhere. This is something I learnt at the advanced…
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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…
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#Tales of 2015-Retrospect
MOTHER TIME—life goes by so very fast, my dears and taking time to reflect, even once a year slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours killing them with the frantic way we live and it’s important that at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock and acknowledge our place…