At what age did they get published?
I have compiled a list of prize winning authors and jotted down their debut works, mostly novels, to see at what age they got published for the very first time! More than anything else, it’s just to quench the curiosity of the likes of me.
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and published The Pickwick Papers [...]
How autobiographical is your work?
Let me start with a quote by Goethe:
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Have you ever wondered how much of you is in your works? I didn’t until my father asked me whether Mira (the protagonist of my discarded novel) was me. I said, ‘Of [...]
Writing: Art or Craft?
How many times have I heard that fiction writing is 90 per cent craft and 10 percent art. Some people disagree and some agree, and I say it doesn’t matter! Not one tiny, dwarfed, too small to see, bit. Even if you change the proportion to 70:30, to 99:1 or even to 50:50, I would [...]
Writer’s block
Writer’s block makes me wonder why there isn’t an engineer’s block, a musician’s block, a mechanic’s block and so on. Maybe it has something to do with laziness. Anyways, what we’ll talk about here is how to get out of writer’s block if you are trapped in it.
Brainstorming
This sounds fun and that’s why it’s the [...]
How to deal with rejection
It hurts. Nobody could deny that. You are dreaming of seeing your novel as a book, taken up by a reputed publisher, selling millions of copies worldwide, the media hounding you, you an established writer; and then one day a rejection slip drops down on you like a bomb. It hurt. As if that were [...]
