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Neharika
Jul 3, 20212 min read
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Seven reasons to pick up the self-guided course - The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative...
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Neharika
Jun 5, 20213 min read
The Perfect Day
The Sun’s first rays glinted marvellously as they hit the surface of the black water like floating diamonds catching light and throwing...
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Neharika
Jun 5, 20211 min read
An Eclipse Hung in an Ocean Sky
This poem is a palindrome, meaning it is a mirror image of itself. Written in reverse, the two stanzas mean different things. I wrote it...
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Neharika
Aug 2, 20202 min read
Writing Challenge Day 33: Coming Together
I'm done with this writing challenge and quite relieved! As I wouldn't forget the writing bit, but to update here. My most important...
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Neharika
Aug 1, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 32: The Nuances of the Thing
So here I am happily trotting along with the creative writing workshop I'm attending, happy to plot and create a scene from chapter 5 of...
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Neharika
Aug 1, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 31: Life Goes On
I can spot the writing that I wrote when I was really really inspired and I guess instead of fighting with my mind, that I need to be...
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Neharika
Jul 30, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 30: Days Become Longer
Far from the coming to my writing desk and spewing out writing, the way I'm beginning to work is a little different. It starts with...
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Neharika
Jul 29, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 29: Finding First Gear
As I'm spending the entire week analysing short stories and working on just a couple of scenes, this is allowing me to take my time...
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Neharika
Jul 28, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 28: A System That Might Work
Today I went from continuing the scene assigned to me, to working out the names and characteristics of the main characters. I notice that...
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Neharika
Jul 27, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 27: Always a student
I began the day, continuing off from where my creative writing class stopped. And it worked. We have to craft a scene and all the intense...
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Neharika
Jul 26, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 26: Starting a blueprint
I spent half the day in a novel writing workshop and the other in a script writing workshop. The crux of both was the same: to not tell,...
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Neharika
Jul 26, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 25: Inundated in a Good Way
Weekends are the cruellest days. High five if you get the reference. Saturdays and Sundays are when I end up doing and taking creative...
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Neharika
Jul 24, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 24: Reading is also writing
I find that when I start reading, noticing how another person writes, in my case, another teen dystopian novel, I ask how does this...
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Neharika
Jul 23, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 23: Stranger Things
Today I found a document where I had listed the book plot point by point - and I mean a plot that worked. I also had ideas for possible...
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Neharika
Jul 22, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 22: Mapping a routine
My day started at 6 am today, so needless to say, I got a lot of writing done. The ideas also came quite easily, of more than just what...
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Neharika
Jul 21, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 21: Off with Procrastination
Today was a stunningly good day. I got in a writing session before noon, and by writing, I don't mean getting down words for the heck of...
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Neharika
Jul 21, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 20: Classical conditioning
Today I began my writing day bright and early in the morning. Well - a little late but first thing in the morning is what I mean. I put...
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Neharika
Jul 19, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 19: Word by Word
Today was unique in the sense, I gave the book due time. But I sat with it. From the first page of my notes, I went over everything I had...
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Neharika
Jul 18, 20202 min read
Writing Challenge Day 18: Occupational Hazards
Sometimes the thoughts take over. That's when it's important to meditate, clear the slate and find ways to stay inspired. Does it work?...
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Neharika
Jul 17, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 17: Keeping at it
It's not easy to write on a full stomach. That's two things writers need. A little bit of hunger and a strong back. I'm doing okay, now...
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Neharika
Jul 16, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 16: Inching ahead
I have come to a point well into the second act of my novel and I'm trying to explore the possible struggles that the characters go...
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Neharika
Jul 15, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 15: Tabula rasa
Today was a sleepy day, though I had lots of tea. I spent some time ideating and have a good lead of how the character starts off. It's...
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Neharika
Jul 14, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 14: Movement Ahead
Today I spent a lot of time reading, trying to get lost in the world of books again :) When I started my book, that was how I came about...
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Neharika
Jul 13, 20201 min read
Writing Challenge Day 13: A bump in the road
Because of many reasons, I end up writing at the end of the day these days, squeezed between lists and meals. It won't be for too long,...
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