On constraint, chaos and confusion in the creative process and life.
200…and the joy of one simple word “Whatever”
This would be my 200th post. The blog is officially retired, and I write elsewhere now. But what is strange is that I don’t feel at home anywhere else. This is the place where my words first made their way into the ether that is the internet, this is where I wrote with freedom and…
Call me crazy – Camp Nanowrimo
Call me crazy, I just signed up to Camp Nanowrimo. A commitment to write the first draft of a novel in one month! 189 words on day1. Slow start, but feels awesome. Here is the opening –
Working title: “Invisible Worlds”
I soak the knife and the long blade in the hot boiling water, I count till 30, slowly, like Baba had told me to do – he said that boiling water can kill germs, and if I forget to count or count wrong, then the children will get infected. Then I count 10 more just…
We, the millennials
Neither a hare nor a tortoise be, Rather the child that meanders free. Our destination is a mirage to which we float, Not a mountain to climb with disasters fraught. We don’t lay claim to the things we own; Pride is for the experiences we have borne. Let’s not just smell the roses, let’s plant…
10 years
Darn. I forgot the blog’s 10 year birthday. It was on 26 Aug 2014. If I had time, would have posted the sequel to this Remembering a journey. Watch this space for the part II. Coming Soon.
Fall
Kill me before I die For the rose petals are more beautiful in bloom Than fallen and trampled beneath our feet.
Mother
Part of the reason I started my blog was that I would stop leaving random pieces of writing everywhere…when I was a kid, and before we had computers, my mother would clean up my room after I had gone back to the hostel after my summer vacation and she would find shreds of writing everywhere…
A promise from six months ago
Six months ago, I promised myself that I won’t write. Six months ago, I promised myself that I won’t write. If left to my own devices, I scribble a lot, in random places usually – the most frequently used is the draft folder of my email client, which is an absolutely nightmare to search. I…
Travel Book list
For someone who loves traveling and who loves reading, I read surprisingly few travel books – its sort of like the way I love chocolate and I love ice cream, but I don’t like chocolate ice cream – however, I am always in search of good travel books, in the hope that some day, one…