Writing is a lucrative career. There is a lot of money to be made as a writer. A lot of people have built a fortune as a writer, for example, JK Rowling. Even if you can not become the next JK Rowling, you can still earn money as a writer. You can become a blogger, […]
How to Write for Children: Tips for Writing Children Books
Twenty or thirty years ago, no one would have thought children literature as a distinct genre. In the early times – besides fables, folk tales and fairy tales – children literature comprised of “issue books” that described serious and important subjects for children, something similar to textbooks. Publishers were not interested in the “real” children […]
The Art of Storytelling: Aristotle’s Take on Building Credible, Logical, and Emotional Narratives
Storytelling is as old as humanity itself. From fireside tales to epic poetry, from Shakespearean drama to contemporary cinema, stories remain our most powerful means of making sense of the world. More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle, in his Poetics, attempted to understand why some stories captivate while others fail. He identified five essential […]
Poetry: Eternal Sadness
This country Still warm with the blood of common people Spilled during the People’s War Stands on the corpses Of murdered kings and prime ministers People, old and young These and those Wait for the emancipation With eternal sadness in their eyes And make stories, within grim fogs That there is no hope for the […]
Short Story: Searching for Blouse of Affection
When Rajiv married, almost all friends in the troupe played a prank – Prajwol should fall for Rajiv’s sali. Prajwol, timid and reticent guy, blushed at his friends’ gimmickry that continued for few weeks, and eventually everyone forgot. Even Prajwol did not remember, once he was mocked about a girl, whose face though he had […]
How to Write a Good Copy: Writing Tips for Copywriter
Productions and sales and consumptions are the conditions of human existence. Advertising is an integral part of selling. And to reach the target customers, manufacturers try to penetrate the market through different kinds of promotions such as text and pictures, and audio and video messages. Advertisers use three different medium to sell a product: print, […]
Micro Fictions: Time Lapse
Walking the Dog Every morning he jogged with his dog to the central park, and she was there watching her dog do the acrobatics. Couple of weeks later, they were in a restaurant. Their dogs sat smugly, looking at their masters for a cue. They both were straight like their masters and did not find […]
The Lyrical Age
Chapter One “Mani, wake up, how long do you think you can sleep.” God! Why’s this piggy in room? “He’s still sleeping?” Shit! This old man’s also here. “Does he ever get up early?” Why can’t this blacky keep his mouth shut. Why these people have to start their day ticking off me. Why don’t […]
Flash Fictions
Flash Fiction: The Drunken Poet “Give me some beautiful lines, make me feel good, make me feel special,” she said. “Every night….I see you…I feel you,” he smiled at himself. “Sorry about the burrowed lines.” “Burrowed?” she asked. “From where you borrowed that one? I mean not where, from whom?” “From a song by Celine […]
Poetry: I Write My Story With Blood
Please, don’t come near I’m pregnant. Spare me O brother! Don’t you have sisters? See, I’m like your sister You don’t do dirty things to your sister, do you I’m eight months pregnant My child will die They pointed gun at me Asked to cook, give them bed How could I say no when I […]