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Continue reading →: On Writing and Complexity (Part 2)
Continued from On Writing and Complexity (Part 1) How do we react to the following writers who might be trying to say they’re happy? Person A: Awwwww. How sweet. That’s the best thing ever! Red roses are my favourite. Person B: The flowers made me so happy. Person C: My…
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Continue reading →: On Writing and Complexity (Part 1)
I had the good fortune one of these days to help a friend edit his dating profile. He is a good looking, normal enough, fairly interesting guy but this is what he had as his killer writeup. He was sure that the following would have droves of women impressed: I…
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Continue reading →: Those readers in the train
I’ve been waiting a long time for the PATH train at a station in Jersey City. The train will take me under the Hudson river to mid-town Manhattan. It arrives at last and I get in. It’s not rush hour exactly though not everyone has got a seat. But it’s…
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Continue reading →: Missing experiences surrounding print newspapers
We had some new furniture delivered the other day. As will happen with deliveries, some chinks and scratches appeared on the varnished surface as an inevitable part of the delivery process. The store sent a very gentlemanly elderly man to paint over the chinks. He had a can of spray…
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Continue reading →: Reading print newspapers
We drove to a quaint little town on the banks of the Hudson with nice little roads lined by painted houses with small well-tended gardens and quaint little antique shops that had their wares displayed on the pavement. The town seemed to be mostly populated by the elderly. We had…
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Continue reading →: Durga Puja, Fall, Kashful and the city
I got out of my apartment building yesterday and there they were. A bunch of dried, white grass flowers framed by concrete next to a stern sign that read : “Private. Do not trespass.” Kashful. Or its distant cousin has bloomed in Jersey City. Fall has touched even the concrete.…
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Continue reading →: Fall already?
There’s been something different in the air this week. Is it the quality of light?
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Continue reading →: Those scholars in our libraries
I was sitting at a university library in a small, white cubicle a few years ago. Those cubicles were just big enough for one person to sit in with a ledge that served as a table and a shelf above the ledge that held books. Under the table-like shelf were…
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Continue reading →: Freshly Pressed again and 1000 followers!
My blog had a wonderful long weekend! The party started out being Freshly Pressed for Sounds of the Blogosphere (a second time in the blog’s life after My Blog Audience) as part of the Weekly Writing Challenge–The Sound of Blogging on Friday. Then, the group of wonderful readers who had…
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Continue reading →: Writing Humour: Seven Challenges of Style
When it comes to writing, different people do different styles well. No style is easy be it reflective or expository or informative. Writing to entertain can take various forms but the most challenging to pull off, according to me, is the humorous. Why?
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Continue reading →: Six ways to become a more productive writerI’ve been thinking about how to become a more productive writer. Here’s six ways I came up with that could get the creative juices flowing:
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Continue reading →: Blogging, writing, meaning
I learnt a lot about writing through this blog this summer. But what left me rather awestruck was how meaning travels and takes a life of its own in the blogosphere because the audience is so heterogeneous in every way imaginable.
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Continue reading →: Writer’s Block through Active and Passive Voices in the Head
The writer’s brain had been left alone for a while. So had his pen. His table was left all messy and dust had gathered on his notebooks. The blinds were drawn in his room every dull morning for days on end. Rust had gathered on all objects on the table…
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