REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED WITH A HEX

Okay I’m feeling great this morning. Positively ebullient. Effervescent. Exultant. Elated. Ecstatic. Now that I’ve impressed everyone with my enviable command of the English language, synonyms for happy anyway (did you notice how all of them begin with E?), let me get into the why.
Remember about the project I was griping about yesterday? Yes, the [...]

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Gripes of Write

Curiously, this morning, I found myself running out of ideas for my blog. What’s curious about it, you say (that’s just a mystery writer building suspense). Patience and all will be revealed (now that’s just plain grandstanding).
 
You see, the reason I first started blogging was to discipline myself. In one of my earlier post I’ve [...]

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I’m in a Rut

I’m in a rut, creatively speaking. It’s not that I have a writer’s block. I don’t. The ideas abound plentifully but I just can’t muster up enough enthusiasm to put them down.
I blame it on the heat. I swear, it doesn’t rain soon, I won’t be responsible for my inaction.
It’s is so sweltering that even [...]

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Murphy was an Optimist

You know what they say, If you think it’s your lucky day, don’t worry, it too shall pass. So true.
And there was moi, thinking just that I was having one of the best days of my life. No script to turn in, an off day from my running schedule, nowhere to go, plus I [...]

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Apropos Advice

One of my readers asked me why I don’t write on the subject of writing so much. Well, there is only so much gyaan I can dish out. The rest is up to you, the writer.  You have to start writing. And in case you already have, stick to it. If you don’t write no [...]

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Let’ Talk…a Little

One of the most important features of a script is the dialogue. Also the most tricky. Often times writers meander around for ages before stumbling upon the right formula.
So how does one go about writing dialogue? The answer to that is to keep it as realistic as possible. But in reallife life we do a [...]

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Wanted Sucker with Fire in the Bally

Resuming from yesterday, I knew that the project would never get off the ground. After years of dealing with people like that you develop an instinct for such things.
But there sat Mr. Rajinder, across the desk from me, looking at me expectantly. All he wanted to know was how much I wanted for writing the [...]

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Wanted Sucker with Fire in the Bally

This really funny thing happened to me a couple of days ago. As I had mentioned in one of my earlier posts, one of the delights of being a writer is that you get to meet some interesting and whacky characters – and not just the ones you create.
Okay, so there I was at a [...]

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Monster’s Ball

Finally, after a week of head banging (and not to heavy metal either) my internet’s up again!
My Internet went down last Wednesday. At first I tried to fix the problem by calling the help centre. I don’t know what possessed me to call technical help centre, but I did.  
They asked me to try [...]

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My Internet’s Down

Let’s see now, it’s been a week since my internet’s been down. So i’ve taken to doing a little pilgrimage everyday…to Reliance, who happens to be my ISP.
The problem has still not been sorted out. So it will be a little while till i post another entry…am still there by the way, scavenging on their wireless network.
The [...]

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