Hello everyone! Welcome to the twenty-second edition of Fiction Monday. Last week was Thanks Giving holidays here in the US and I didn’t write much. Everyone was home, without work that is, and that called for a relaxed time. Today I would like to share with you all a video on gratitude which I published […]
Where it all began #SoulfulSunday 1
On Sunday at 7 pm IST three of us huddled in a corner in our own houses separated by the physical world to create our first Soulful Sunday session. First, we listened to a guided meditation session for a little over 10 minutes followed by a writing session for the next 10 minutes. Last night […]
Fiction Monday – 21
Hello everyone! Welcome to the twenty-first edition of Fiction Monday. “A writer is a world trapped in a person.” ~Victor Hugo 2020 is coming to a close quickly but I don’t feel like the year is ending soon. Since March days look the same. I am cranky sometimes, okay, most of the time. Writing is […]
Fiction Monday – 20
Hello everyone! Welcome to the twentieth edition of Fiction Monday. “Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.” ~ Anon I am more distracted by my thoughts than the internet. That’s why I write. What are your distractions? Stories From The Nineteenth Edition Din of screaming voices by Aseem RastogiThe […]
Fiction Monday – 19
Hello everyone! Welcome to the nineteenth edition of Fiction Monday. From this edition onwards I am offering something different for fiction Monday. Since many of you are comfortable with long fictional pieces I am increasing the word count to 500. You are also welcome to offer your poetry and non-fiction musings along with fictional pieces […]
Fiction Monday – 18
Hello and welcome to the eighteenth edition of Fiction Monday. “Tears are words that need to be written.”–Paulo Coelho November is the month of writing as NaNowriMo (National Novel Writing Month) commences this month. I wish all the best to the participants of this month-long novel writing challenge. I have tried in 2015 but my half-written […]
Fiction Monday – 17
Hello and welcome to the seventeenth edition of Fiction Monday. “Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver There is […]
Fiction Monday 16
Hello and welcome to the sixteenth edition of Fiction Monday. “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start our writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ― Octavia E. Butler When I read my older […]
Fiction Monday 15
Hello and welcome to the fifteenth edition of Fiction Monday. “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”–Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades I am going through a phase where I find it difficult to write. I won’t call it a writer’s block. I have stories and ideas spilling […]
Fiction Monday 14
Hello and welcome to the fourteenth edition of Fiction Monday. “A writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.” ~ Burton Rascoe Stare, talk, walk, run, and do all that takes to write that story that’s brewing inside you. Stories From The Thirteenth Edition The Shadow by Esha M DuttaThe cat and the drawer by […]