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Twenty Words Tuesday: Week 26 Post (Prompt: Spring)
Thank you, Bulbul’s Bubble, for this week’s writing prompt. I am honored on my inclusion into your mention-worthy list. So, here’s my entry for #TwentyWordsTuesday, a 20-words-story-prompt. which for this week is Spring. Spring “Let’s give up the bitterness and begin this year afresh,” he’d demanded. “We’ve never looked back ever since,” she reflected. I Continue reading
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Twenty Words Tuesday: Week 25 Post (Prompt: Love)
Thank you, Bulbul’s Bubble, for this week’s writing prompt. So, here’s my entry for #TwentyWordsTuesday, a 20-words-story-prompt. And, here’s my first attempt at writing a 20-words story based on this week’s prompt, which is Love. Love Passersby ignored him; a tradition for them for last two decades. “Here you’d proposed. Here I’m without you.” he Continue reading
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Just Another Lens
Through these strangely amusing and simple ways, He (or is it She?) continues to teach me life lessons that then flow through my words, such as these. Continue reading
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3 Key Takeaways from Apple Event 15 Sep 2020
So, as Apple concluded its first big event, a first online event, for 2020, I could not help but think how carefully it designed and integrated everything into that one big thing that matters. This post is a result of that contemplation, and here’s what I’ve found: Watching the Wrist: Listening Well Enough As parents, Continue reading
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Strike O’ Muse
Today, my mother turns 62 years young. Of all she has learnt from her life, the essence, she knows, remains in never settling, ever pursuing, and setting high standards for everything. If this already means trouble for us (I’m chuckling as I write this), it means that we, too, have to continuously better ourselves at Continue reading
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Learning through Writing
The life of a writer is that of a generalist. We are the jack of all trades. And that itself has lended me the most powerful insight: to be a learner, I just have to take the next logical step. As a proud generalist, I have broken down complex topics into simple terms and simple terms… Continue reading
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Working from Home: A Revelation
The biggest revelation, however, is that it brought forth what years of married life could not: we stand by each-other. Continue reading
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How does writing make you a better person?
How does writing make you a better person? I chose to answer this question on my site. Continue reading
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Get Your Writing Space
Anything that helps you write, including the non-interconnected things like a window or a rain on the other side of it. Your writing space is your little world where words strike you. It is different for everyone; it should be. Your writing space defines you as much as it defines the work you do. Continue reading
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What Makes up a Good Novel?
A lot of people ask similar questions to me about writing. Most of them are clueless about where to begin. Some of them are clueless about how to end. And the remaining keep bothering about hitting a writer’s block even before they get to that point. And, while I busy myself with counting pages of Continue reading
The Wordsmith 