Once upon a time a boy met a girl. They had a couple of really nice dates that ended pretty well. Then she met up with her old boyfriend and all of a sudden boy becomes yesterday’s news. Now at first glance you’d think boy would be upset at this. But the truth is […]
Continue readingMy friend PP (Real name ‘Pritesh’ – we call him PP because it winds him up) was chatting about his pants earlier this week. When he called, I couldn’t figure out why he kept banging on about pants and a poor mobile signal caused an odd moment where I wondered if he was going to […]
Continue reading4 hours. It might have been less if I knew what I was doing and hadn’t broken my arm skiing last week but that’s the way life goes sometimes. My experience has given me an insight into the power and thrall of social media and so I decided to share the steps I and […]
Continue readingIt sounds like several words mangled together but in actual fact Nanowrimo stands for ‘National Novel Writing Month’. Every November this incredibly nutty organisation runs a month long challenge. The challenge itself is to write 50,000 words of a book within 1 month. Despite the slight inaccuracy of the title (there are writers participating […]
Continue readingBeing in the middle of writing a book at this moment, I find like most writers the material beginning to sour. Characters start to become uninteresting, scenes make no sense and I end up going off on tangents all over the place. On the worst days, I stop writing completely and allow my inner demon […]
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