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The Inner Voice
I am often scared to ask myself the question ‘Am I giving enough time to my art?’ I try to silence my inner voice whenever it hovers around…that question. Most creative geniuses (not only writers) worked ridiculously hard to improve their craft and bring the exquisite finesse that we love in their works. I remain doubtful that I am working hard to become a good writer even if I have been writing and hitting my targets for a couple of days. I still find myself wondering if I should be writing from dawn to dusk? Is it only the quantity of practice?
bhatnagar.pranav1985Mar 22
The dual life of a writer
I came a little late to my work desk a couple of days back hoping that this writing session would be a productive one, hoping that words…would pour out and I’ll be able to put down the thousand words that I had promised myself for the day. Thirty minutes into the session, just as I was finding rhythm, I heard my phone ring. I looked for my phone cursing under my breath and found the damn thing hidden under a heap of papers (I hate to admit it but my work desk is a mess right now.) ¶ It was my professor asking me to pull up some metrics for a paper that we are writing together.bhatnagar.pranav1985Mar 22
Researching While Writing
There is a new podcast floating on the web called 10 Minute Writer’s Workshop. It’s about writers, pretty kick-ass writers, talking about…the craft of writing and their own personal writing journeys. Last evening I heard Salman Rushdie talk about his craft in his usual self-assured manner. There was three particular points that stuck with me: MFAs, reading, voice. ¶ MFAs: There’s a never-ending debate on whether writers should or shouldn’t do MFAs. Salman’s point was that (calling him sans Rushdie is strangely distracting and masculating) MFAs and critique workshops tend to make writers sound alike.
Tanvi SrivastavaMar 17
Why Do I Write?
Writing a novel is a nightmare. 100,000 words of horror. So then why do it?Why do people write novels? It seems absurd. To be locked up in a room, marching ahead word after word, chapter after chapter, month after month. Creating characters, killing them off, hating them, loving them. To feel your story slip away, the angst, the frustration. To do all this without, most likely, seeing a rupee hit your account. To do all of this while you have a perfectly good day job that pays you perfectly well.Tanvi SrivastavaMar 6
On Writing routines…
In the last post, we talked about the guilt of a non-practicing writer. Every writer has at one point or the other in their writing careers…… ¶ In the last post, we talked about the guilt of a non-practicing writer. Every writer has at one point or the other in their writing careers faced a ‘non-practicing spell’ where they are unable to devote time to writing. In this post, I want to spend some time discussing writing routines that would ensure a continuous flow of words onto the paper. ¶ Over the last year and a half I have tried experimenting with various writing routines.bhatnagar.pranav1985Mar 3