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5 Fears of a Self-Publishing Virgin
These are both exciting and scary times for those within the publishing industry. By all accounts, writers have it made. As I pointed out in one of my earlier posts, it does seem like it’s a good time...
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2 Things You Can Do Right Now To Become a Better Writer
I run a weekly club in Bangalore for beginning writers called Write Club. There we’re always trying to come up with short, pithy advice for the absolute novice to take his or her writing to the next...
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4 Mistakes Beginning Writers Make while Writing Dialogue
Writing dialogue ought to be easy. We spend most of our waking lives speaking – either to ourselves or with others. (What? Is it just me who speaks to himself?) And yet when it comes to writing...
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6 Word Mistakes You Could be Forgiven for Making
The recent Write Club Meetup on strange words – and a few recent embarrassing goof-ups – got me thinking about how often we get some basic things wrong in English usage. Some of the examples below will...
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5 Things An Editor Wants To See On Your Manuscript’s First Page
You must have heard of the Mickey Spillane quote that’s often-repeated in writer circles: The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next. Editors at publishing houses and literary...
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5 Reasons why Professional Authors Should Write for Free
Sometime last year, I wrote a post on whether or not writers should publish for free. There I took the hard-nosed professional’s stance. I said authors should not give away their stuff for free,...
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The Great Amazon-Hachette Debate: Why Should Readers Care?
Debate? What debate? If you’re a reader, you probably asked that question as you opened this post. Most likely, you’re not even aware that as you read this, Amazon and Hachette are locked in a rather...
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Did Chetan Bhagat Teach India to Read?
It’s now a truism. How many times did you come across the statement that Chetan Bhagat made India read books? In my experience, I’ve never come away from a conversation about Bhagat without hearing...
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3 Things that Bring Out a Budding Writer’s Talent
Last week, I got involved with the good folk at Campus Diaries in their content development program. To kick things off, they got all their interns and young writers to send me a list of questions. I...
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What I Learned From My First Million Words of Crap
Last week, on Friday, 26 June 2015, sometime around noon, I wrote my millionth word of finished fiction. I did not realize it immediately. But I keep a running word counter on my computer, and when I...
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What Writers Can Learn From the Write India Contest Debacle
Okay. So the Times of India Write India Campaign has just managed to piss off a vast number of writers, me included. If you’re new to the topic, I’d suggest you read through this post on author Rasana...
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