I have been keeping a swipe file even before I knew what a swipe file was. A swipe file is a notebook or a folder where you keep all the fantastic ideas, inspiration, prompts, quotes and bits and pieces of information that […]
It is cold, windy and dark. A few people are sitting around a fire. They are eating and drinking and talking when suddenly a young man gets up and speaks in a loud voice, “Do you know what happened to me today […]
For the past few days, I have been working on the character development of my novel. There are a few techniques I have learned which I am going to share with you in this post. Figure out how your character looks like. […]
When I started writing my first novel, I didn’t have any story. I just had one incident in mind that I witnessed as a little girl back in India. The son of our landlord, who lived in England, came to visit his […]
I wish someone had told me how to outline my novel when I started writing the first draft of my novel. I was expecting that the year-long novel writing course I signed up for would help me flesh out the story first […]
I must admit that my approach to novel writing so far has been wrong. So wrong, that I haven’t been able to finish the damn thing in five years, even though the plot is clear and characters are living in my head […]