Reaching There

Writing a poem, short story, novel or anything with words is a process that is slow and tiring. There are plenty of advises I can capture from brilliant writers as well as from peers who are going through the struggle of creating in their daily life like I am. There are tutorials on YouTube that claim to help you write a short story in under one hour.  Also there are videos about writers talking about writing as a difficult process where the first draft is often shelved for months, maybe years, until the characters or the theme gestates into a life of its own. So there are different schools of thoughts that can help me or at the end of the day confuse me as well. However like any other form of art or learning the process that works for me derives from my own personal experience . Whether it is time tested theories that I learn from other writers or it is something that brews in me subconsciously for some time until it pops out in my conscious as a revelation or an epipha...

#picturepoem Trying something new!

Writing is an important medium of communication that has been in existence for thousands of years. A lot of what we know about the world and about ourselves is because someone at some point in time decided to record the truth. Whether it was early human beings leaving the details of their seemingly mundane human life on walls of damp & dark caves in form of sketches and hand prints.  Or poets, writers, artists in the long lineage of creative human beings who decided to explore human emotions and the effect of human emotions on relationships, nature and universe. Everyone, Shakespeare, Keats, Russel, Kabir Das, Shankaracharya, Tulsidas, Lao Tzu, Mandela, Wordsworth, Premchand, Bukowski, Abaza, Van Gogh, Bakshi, Spielberg and others have given us troves of sometimes abstract yet profoundly meaningful words that have the power to move even the most inertial mind. We're all wonderful creatures who have been blessed with the same ability to conceive truth from the deepest ...