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Stop Trying to Write a Book. Start Building a Mind.
Feb 26th 2026Most aspiring writers obsess over one thing:When will I finish my book? Wrong question. The better question is:Am I building the kind of mind that can sustain a book? A manuscript is a by-product. A writer’s mind is the real…
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The Uncomfortable Phases of Becoming a Writer (No One Talks About This)
Feb 26th 2026Let’s move away from romance for a moment. Writing is beautiful — yes. But becoming a writer? That’s often awkward, lonely, financially uncertain, and quietly confronting. If you are an aspiring writer, you deserve honesty more than inspiration. Here’s what…
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Write the Story Only You Can Tell
Feb 26th 2026There is a dangerous myth that floats around aspiring writers:Everything has already been written. Love has been written. War has been written. Betrayal, ambition, motherhood, exile, longing — all written. And yet, no one has written them through your pulse. The world…
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The Courage to Stay: A Note to Aspiring Writers
Feb 26th 2026Every aspiring writer begins with a spark. A line that won’t leave.A memory that aches.A character that whispers in the quiet hours. But what no one tells you is this: writing is not about the spark. It is about the…
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4 Literary Festivals that you can still go to in 2017
july 13, 2016It is already July and we are six months into 2017. Many popular literary festivals are over whether it is Emirates Literary Festival in Dubai, United Arab Emirates or Jaipur Literature Festival at Jaipur, India. However, all is not lost.…
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How To Start Your Non-Fiction Book?
October 21, 2016‘Nothing succeeds like success!’ Very true. But you may feel stuck by the immense knowlegde you may have vs. how to present it in an interesting way. Writing skill may be enhanced by doing following: Your target audience? You cannot…
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Be A Writer, Tell Your Story!
October 22, 2016There are many of us who feel that a day will come when every situation will be under control and we can sit peacefully and write - like perhaps when our kids have grown up, when I visit Paris, when…
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How To Demystify The Craft Of Writing
October 24, 2016The craft of writing employs techniques to make the written work more understandable. Concepts, elements, and generics do not hold the readers emotionally. The need of the story is to draw analogies to be able to feel, see, and understand…
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Can You Have A ‘Woman’s Fiction’ Novel With A Male Protagonist?
October 24, 2016I am a woman and I love to write for women. Period. Till now I have almost always worked on a woman’s journey and explored various aspects and emotions that are an exclusive domain of a woman (at the cost…
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Top 10 Books Recommended on Middle Eastern Culture
February 19, 2017Middle East is dipped and enriched with literature that has been brought in front of the world more now than ever before. Not only have writers from this region living elsewhere started writing in English, but also writers from around…
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5 Things You Need To Remember If You Are Contemplating To Give Up Writing
April 28, 2017As an aspiring author, you will have some good days, some bad and some very bad days. It does not end there. At the risk of scaring you, let me warn you, you may even have some suicidal days (feel…
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Baby Steps – My Journey To Publication
April 28, 2017I think the tenor of my life changed with the advent of the Iranian revolution, when as a ten year old I lost the exuberance of childhood and the warmth of my loved ones.
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Seven lessons For Your Journey
April 28, 2017Improve Your Craft – You have a story, but do not have the tools? Research and learn. Aim to improve your craft. It is not very difficult with so much information on the net - online courses, workshops, articles, writers’ retreats and…
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