Tag: How to Tips
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Hello readers — welcome to the November 2025 edition of A Newsletter With a View of One’s Own. How are you? I hope you’re absorbing the changes around you and collecting memories. Writing spontaneously about perceptions and experiences, is extremely rewarding. Imagine your responses to “How are you” and pen a story. For example, “How…
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For this blogpost, I’ve combed through my notebooks to come up with a list of six new PROMPTS you may try during the upcoming long weekend: On the theme of “FREEDOM” (since India is celebrating her independence day on August 15, that is just a day away), I will be writing a “freedom-themed” piece. Possible…
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Dear Friends, Today marks four years since I launched this little corner of the internet—my author website! It is a space I carved out to share my writing, connect with readers, and give voice to others wanting to share theirs. I run my author site http://mandirapattnaik.com as a payback medium to Writing Community. It’s a…
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JULY 05, 2025 Last year, something happened to my writing process. Inspiration went cold. Sentences didn’t flow. And the right words became elusive beasts in an ever-thinning herd. Some people would term this “writer’s block”, two words that brought to mind an unyielding presence, an insurmountable obstacle with solid edges and sharp corners. I didn’t…
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Special Blogpost for National Poetry Month As you may remember, for my last blogpost I had shared my special Poetry Month trampset column What Do Fiction Writers Do All through Poetry Month? I hope you enjoyed the list, and especially, if you are a fiction writer, I hope you’ve been inspired by item #10 Check…
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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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Fragmentation in structure, in narrative, and in character-building can be divided into three parts: 1) Fragmentation in structure: Meaning a narrative text is subtly nudging you to pay attention through the way it is told. We’re not taking of hybrids, experimental or hermit-crab forms here, but traditional forms, and yet, by moving around the pieces,…
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Subscribe for monthly craft essays Let me begin this month’s blogpost with a poem. I suppose I am still recovering from Poetry Month’s poet interviews. In case you missed April’s highly inspirational blogpost with interesting anecdotes, useful advice and more, find it here. FORK / Charles Simic (b. 1938)This strange thing must have creptRight out…
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Fragmentation in structure, in narrative, and in character-building can be divided into three parts: 1) Fragmentation in structure: Meaning a narrative text is subtly nudging you to pay attention through the way it is told. We’re not taking of hybrids, experimental or hermit-crab forms here, but traditional forms, and yet, by moving around the pieces,…
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Fragmentation in structure, in narrative, and in character-building can be divided into three parts: 1) Fragmentation in structure: Meaning a narrative text is subtly nudging you to pay attention through the way it is told. We’re not taking of hybrids, experimental or hermit-crab forms here, but traditional forms, and yet, by moving around the pieces,…
