From the day I moved to a small tea estate in Assam with my husband Amit, I heard nothing else but stories about Mrs Dubey. No one knew how long Mrs Dubey had been living in the ivy-covered bungalow at the farthest […]
In yesterday’s article, I suggested three ways to pick stories from everyday life. Today I am going to talk about how to develop them into a stories. You have to keep in mind that this form of storytelling is different from plot-driven […]
Everyone likes stories. Stories are how we communicate. But, the best stories are the stories that are close to home – stories from everyday life. Storytelling is important not only for fiction writers but the non-fiction writers too. What makes non-fiction interesting […]
Three years ago, we moved to Darwin with my husband’s job during the famous build-up season. He had been offered a project manager position with a housing development project for the indigenous community. Since our kids were young, we decided to use […]
If you ever get a chance to come to the South of India, close to either the state of Karnataka or Tamilnadu, I urge you to come and visit me. I reside on a hill almost at the border of two states, […]
Jim is planning to make a dash for it tomorrow. He has asked me to join him. ‘We will leave through the small door on the side after dinner. No one will notice. Not for a long time,’ he says. I am […]