Category: Craft Essays
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Because story-telling is both art & science, a writer may strive to use the right blend of history, culture, language, and colors of a place to enrich the narrative, and thus mold a piece in the best of what’s available and unique to the writer’s sensibilities. This fertile ground is made use of by many…
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My 8yo son and I watch YouTube recipe videos a lot. It’s baffling how the same dish is prepared in a wide variety of styles, the host of one often sharing a process that might be diametrically opposite to the next video! Like ‘Wash basmati rice and soak for 30 minutes’, and the other says…
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I organized a poll, and out of 4 choices, Top 10 Flash won. So here are my top ten stories from the year, pieces that teach a lot about structure, theme and imagery, apart from being excellently crafted. Happy Reading!
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Hi friends, I write to you to share the anatomy of a debut chapbook. Now where to start? As you may already know, I enjoy writing prose, particularly flash fiction. Two-thirds of my published pieces are under 1000 word fiction pieces, yet it was destiny that my debut collection should be of poems. (Btw, my…
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A VIDEO ESSAY! HOW TO CREATE A SEAMLESS COLLECTION OF PUBLISHED/UNPUBLISHED PROSE OR POETRY PIECES Hey friends, Thank you for following me on this very beautiful journey as I learnt so much about writing and craft, explored new things on the way and shared through my craft essay series. “Collections” is the last craft essay…
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Composite redistribution, and flux define the survivability and newness of any group, species or order. So it is with literature. Enter the newest category in literary arts >>> HYBRID Blending two or more themes, formats or genres is known as ‘Hybrid’ or ‘Cross-genre’ or ‘Multi-genre’. The term holds true for mixing fiction wih nonfiction, noir…
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. — Plato We know nothing about poetry. Or we know everything! Hey, isn’t poetry the most natural human response? I oscillate from one response to the other. Two-thirds of my published writing of over 200 pieces, is prose, and yet, my debut chapbook will be a collection…
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5 Schemas to Potential Circular Stories Have you ever wondered why moral stories and Fairy tales were such favorites? We can hardly say, if at all, anything comes close to that joy as we remember it, and sense of satiation of those tales. Recall the mythical stories our mothers told us and the fables we…
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Regardless of its miniature narrative form, flash offers a page to bring the reader under the umbrella, or drenched and exposed to the gray skies. With a notebook beside the window, devour the rain, praise rain!
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SPECIAL BLOGPOST July 16, 2022 VIDEO ESSAY: Sharing my Journey! 3 Easy Steps on How to Make Your Author Website Work as Hard as You
