Writing
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Who Did I Think I Was?
I participated as a merchant in a 3-day fair in Rockwell this weekend. It turns out, I was a very small fish in a very big, fancy pond. It was a sunny day in May when a DM came to me. It was an invitation for a fair. At Rockwell. Let me repeat: At Rockwell. Continue reading
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What I Learned From Writing SEO Keyword-Driven Content
I’ve been writing for our company for a while. Mostly, press releases, articles, brand website content, and social media captions. I’ve been writing to my heart’s content using what I’ve learned from creative short story writing until recently, when the brand HQ pressed for SEO. It’s tough. Not very delightful to do. It’s purely business. Continue reading
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do you want to be a writer?
Maybe you do, but you don’t know how or where to start. Maybe you aren’t sure; you’re at 50/50. Maybe you aren’t confident enough to write, but you think you can do it with a bit of guidance. Continue reading
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Monsoon in the Maldives + Free Journaling Prompt
The monsoon season in the Maldives starts from May until July. It began by mid-May this year, and we’ve been experiencing rainy days. Sometimes it rains for three consecutive days, sometimes three minutes. Sometimes, gray sky looms over us, while sometimes, the rain falls amidst the bright day with electric blue sky. It is still Continue reading
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Writing Tips to Get You Started
The most challenging part of almost anything is to start. Do you always tell yourself that you’d like to start writing, but after a minute or two of staring on a blank page, you begin browsing and spend most of your time on the latter than the first? Well, you are not alone on that. Continue reading
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I Wrote Everyday For a Year. What Did I Learn?
It was an interesting day today, sunny and rainy and also warm, damp, and sticky all at the same time. Sun seeped through my curtain in the late morning, and by lunchtime, the rain poured en masse. I read all day accompanied by excessively sweetened black coffees. I sat on the cold floor of my Continue reading
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On Writing: When You Don’t Feel Good Enough
It was in August last year when, I joined this online creative writing platform where we submit short stories every week. Each week has a different theme, and each theme has five prompts – that’s a lot of ideas to work on, and it’s up to the writers to choose one and let it flourish Continue reading
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Writing and the Harsh Reality
Alexa Donne’s writing tutorials and advice popped up as youtube’s recommended videos several times already. I ignored it for the longest time. But last night, I finally succumbed to youtube’s persistence. I watched her Harsh Writing Advice and harsh, she really was. Continue reading
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Filling In The Blank Pages
The blank pages I once filled with dots are now filled with words. It’s been a month since I started writing on this journal and surprisingly, I have been writing daily except for a few days that I was physically not able to. Continue reading
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That Burning Urge to Write
There are times when we wanted to write but instead of typing, we just stare blankly into the screen. Writer’s block, they say? Look who’s talking here. How would I experience this so called writer’s block if I’m not even a writer 😛 Two days ago, I felt like dying a slow death by cough Continue reading
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