At times, we really, really want something. The odds might be against us yet we want it. But the sad part is that there is not much that we can do about it. Though there is always one thing that we can - wherever, whenever, however! We can believe. It might sound a little too [...]
Month: October 2018
How Game of Thrones WILL End
Daenerys, Jon, Tyrion, Arya, Sansa or the Night King or someone else? Who will finally win the Game of Thrones? How will the tale of gore, cold betrayal and heartache finally end? Now that the post-production stage of Game of Thrones is in full swing and the different actors are going on to experiment with [...]
Simple Writing
What use is such writing that only you, the writer can understand? Writing has been associated for the longest time with a high level of intellectualism. The more the usage of big words, the better the writer's vocabulary. The more complicated the sentences, the more talented the writer. The lengthier the paragraphs, the more credit [...]
Happiness Through Food
"What makes you really happy?" This is a question that will invoke numerous varying answers from different people. But somewhere in everyone's list will surely be a few food items. After all, there is a reason why food is beyond doubt the most important basic necessity of life! We need to eat to live. But [...]
Daddy’s Daughter, Daddy’s ‘Precious’
Remember how Gollum used to call the ring "my precious" in The Lord of the Rings? How his eyes were always on it and how he was ready to go to any extent for it? How he was madly in love with it? Strange as it may seem but that is what I got reminded [...]
OCDs Like Sheldon’s
Penny once called Sheldon "a creature of habit" in the hit show The Big Bang Theory. Anyone who has seen the show knows how right Penny was for Sheldon had an obsessive compulsive disorder for too many things under the sun. From his Sheldonian calender which had a clearly marked food menu and demarcation of [...]
Why Not To Give Up
Let's make a pro-con list. Number of reasons to give up: hundreds Number of reasons to press on - hard: only one Then WHY still keep going? Why when everything is going against us and there is not the faintest hope that things will improve? Why when we ourselves have sort of given in to [...]
Making Them Cry
They don't know you. You don't know them. You write something. They happen to read it. They end up crying. You end up winning. This is basically how any really good piece of writing works. The genre doesn't matter. The age gap between the writer and reader doesn't matter. The stark difference in the lives [...]
Old Friends
You are friends with someone. You can talk endlessly to them. Over time, due to personal or work commitments, the two of you slowly lose touch. But then one fine day, one of you calls the other or the two of you bump into each other and you pick up from exactly where you left. [...]
We In Our Stories
Every story we write may have different characters, settings and themes. But there is a constant that always slides in effortlessly in each of them. That constant is us - the writer. Here, I am not referring to the style of the author but the characteristics that the author possesses as a person. Somehow, somewhere, [...]
An Author You'll Remember 