What’s Your Favourite Genre? IWSG, October 2022

Hello Writing Community Welcome to the October 5 IWSG Day. I’ve been away from writing (far, far away) for some time now. Though I have worked on few drafts (poetry & flash fiction) mostly in workshops and have been taking some random notes in the back pages of my diaries but my outings both on …

IWSG August- Holding on to Conviction

Hello Readers I'm happy to be writing on the first Wednesday of the month which is the official IWSG Day. It is a wonderful supportive group for writers, and I love to answer the question about the writing craft every month. It gives me a perspective about how I am placed in this journey. If …

Writing to the End-IWSG June 1

Hello Fellow Writers How's the writing going? I love the first Wednesday of every month when I take an overview of my writing journey, thanks to the wonderful Insecure Writer's Support Group (IWSG) started by the Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh. He explains the beginning and purpose of the group in this comprehensive post here. I …

Tea Times

Dear Readers, Just some random thoughts this week. More like the stream of consciousness. Maybe like what Virginia Woolf once said, I'm only trying to 'loosen the ligaments' in this piece. Hope you enjoy reading it. *** Every evening, as you trudge up the stairs I watch from the window. A tiresome smile escapes your …

Reclaiming Myself

In the year 2018, I started this blog titled ‘A Hundred Quills’ after winning a few online short story writing contests and after one of my stories was reduced to ashes by a reader/critic. It was such an emotional moment that the title of the story became the title of my blog. No sooner did …

We Got Your Back! (IWSG Feb,2022)

Hello to my IWSG fellows I read an interesting term, called ritual being sometime back, and it’s stayed with me. Last month I couldn’t post for the IWSG and couldn’t even visit other writers because ‘C’ that stormed the world two years back struck home and I dealt with my share of the pandemic. But …