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The Hungry & The Beautiful
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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