As a writer, I should be more concerned about generative AI replacing authors, but in 2021, I wrote a short story about a video game designer using an augmented AI simulation of her dead husband to cope with grief (published in the short story collection as Game Transfer Phenomena), and it was the most morbid I’d felt […]
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For those who don’t follow me on Instagram, I started a series a couple of weeks ago mapping my writing process. For the second step in ‘Writing a Book’, I took a prompt to show how a book plot can be build upon an idea. The prompt was Pillars of Creation (PoC, henceforth). It’s an
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I have “befriended” two sparrows. I leave out grains for them and in return they give me the semblance of nature in a metropolitan city. On days when I forget to put out their chow, they sit on the edges of my potted plants and make a chirpful demand. Despite this entitlement, they would fly
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Before we get into this, I am going to state an unpopular opinion. You cannot force yourself to be a reader. If the thought of sitting with a book in one place makes you want to stab something, it just means you like absorbing content and stories through other forms of media, and there is
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Some days, I wake up with a belly full of words, Imagining each one altering a fraction of the world, like powerful threads, They embroider through the rigid fabric, transforming each and every. Such powerful words Some days, I wake up finding my words ineffective even against my own mind, The very structure that birthed
We are often told that one of the easiest methods to develop empathy is to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes. I understand it in theory but to what extent can you do the “walk”? Let’s check that and also discuss how I made up The Superman T-shirt Theory. The Theory I am a
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the interweb is overflown with jokes, memes, and articles about introverts having the time of their life. As an introvert, I can attest we did. As a lifetime questioner, I met with a chance to dig deeper into this phenomenon. Do the precious minds of introverts push them to extrovert when
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If you love traveling, you must know that oddly satisfying feeling- You are done with planning your vacation, buying your tickets, and checking-off all the stressful items off your list, and are now ready to pack! Just looking at the items in your suitcase thrills you because it, sort of, provides you a summary of
Have you made up your mind to write a strong, feministic, female character for your story? Then let’s set something straight. It’s 2020. Bechdel or a rebellious character not wanting to be abused shouldn’t be the only litmus test for an empowering, feminist book, or movie. To defy the traditional, feminine roles, “masculine” attributes are
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Just like for every huge natural or political disaster, we all have our stories of how we spent the quarantined days during the COVID-19 pandemic. I thought of transporting mine from my diary to here as I now find them quite interesting. In the last week of Jan 2020, I flew from my home in
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