His mom would leave home just before dawn, and dad would drop him to school. He would walk back to an empty home everyday and everyday he would shoot some hoops with friends, eat his snack and finish his homework He would hardly know when mom came home from work dad was the parent he …
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Post about Facebook
How did Facebook get its name? According to Wikipedia, “The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other better.” For all of us Facebook is : …
Rejection – not the final word
I heard somewhere that 'Help' author Kathryn Strockett was rejected 60 times before a publisher was ready to work with her. Sixty times!!! This book has become quite a phenomenon. Everywhere you go, 'The Help' is either on a coffee table or being held in a hand. What if the author had given up? There …
Do you have it in you?
Satisfaction, contentment and relaxed life are only for a time. Wants, needs and power have no end. And the demon of desires controls our hearts. We dream on two levels. All of us have those lofty desires that have chances of getting fulfilled only if we are ready to sweat to fill up a whole …
Writing prompt – It is all about poetry
Every element of nature works in harmony to provide some semblance to our lives. It is all about the poetry of life, which manifests itself in the blue eyes of the maiden and; in the sonorous, husky sweet-nothings of the lover.. In the crisp summer breeze, in the rage of the storm and the calm …
Relationships
While sulking after the most recent argument I had with you-know-who, my 14" screen glared at me. It spoke to me to about the futility of spilt-milk. My fingers moved caressingly over the keyboard and I found real gems on relationships. How convenient! I said to myself,"I have the same thoughts and I feel the …
Playing Jenga with your writing
Jenga is a popular game of both mental and motor skills. Players take turns to remove a block from a tower and balance it on top, creating a taller structure. The game requires strategy. You have to know which block to remove so that your structure does not topple over. Why am I talking about …
writing prompt – Fireside Chat
Fireside chat The logs crackled, moths buzzed around, the campfire heat radiated on her bare shoulders. Her eyes smiled, we sat there all night talking through our eyes using silent words to communicate.
It’s Complicated
In short stories, when I come to endings, I feel I can end in more than one way. I get the idea of a short story from real life, but most of the times, it is just a phrase that I overheard somewhere or a scene in a restaurant that I witnessed. I elaborate that …
Writing Prompt – By the dark of dawn
Mom left home just before dawn, dad left later after dropping me to school. I went to after care and then home just before dinner. I do not know when mom came home from work dad was the parent I saw. Then one day I was told dad needed a surgery to help his ailing …
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