Tag: Writing
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Flash fiction is evolving as writers experiment with new forms and subjects that align with today’s realities. In our fast-paced digital world, social media and online magazines encourage stories that are shorter, bolder, and more interactive, often blending genres and using unconventional structures. Selecting these stories was a thrilling challenge–my gratitude to the talented flash…
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Every year tells a story—I learn, grow, and feel grateful for what has come my way. This one is no exception. The Annual Writing Report 2025 captures the themes and ideas that took shape, the wishes that came true, how writing across genres drives my creative life, what helped during a crisis in my writing-life,…
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Good morning, friends! We are officially into the last month of 2025–how utterly unbelievable is that! We’re also at the eighth edition of this newsletter–and 8 is an auspicious number in my culture, so I’m rather happy we’ve come this far. Let’s get straight to sharing some news from the lit world that caught my…
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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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Hi friends! I woke up today to unseasonal rains and there’s an unmistakable nip in the air. Autumn might be sooner than usual, and winter, colder. Have you noticed the season changing where you are? Let me know in the comments! It is interesting how a small change triggers a big one. Perhaps you’re more…
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In September, many literary journals accept submissions, but they quickly reach capacity. Meanjin, an influential journal, will cease publication in December 2025. The Worcester Review is celebrating its launch, featuring contributors’ work. Opportunities for writers, especially marginalized ones, are highlighted, along with resources to navigate the publishing landscape.
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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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If you are a writer, don’t read. That is the advice of leading writers, thinkers and eminent personalities, including Albert Einstein, Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy and William Woodard. Sounds like literary sacrilege, doesn’t it? More so, given that, as writers, we want to read everything we can lay our hands on. But, turns out, there…
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Past two months, I wrote and received acceptances for six pieces after making a conscious decision: I spent less time on social media. Even though engaging through my platforms have emerged to become an indispensable part of my writing life. Why and how? Read on to find out. As you may very well know, writing…
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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…
