There are a few basic polishing tools one should use while re-writing. Why rewriting? Well, for one, while you’re writing your first draft you should just be concentrating on getting your story out. Donning the editor’s hat comes later. If you try to do both simultaneously, you’ll get nowhere.
And it is here that your computer, [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Search and Find – I
Posted in General Gyan, Novel, tagged editing, rewriting, software, wordprocessing, writing, yWriter4 on August 29, 2008 | 10 Comments »
The Importance of Language
Posted in General Gyan, Random thoughts, tagged George Orwell, grammar, language, musings, reflections, writing on August 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“The Chinese are a communal people,” someone said to me the other day in context of the Beijing Olympics.
I was confused. Communal? Had I missed something about a religious genocide perpretrated by China? So I clarified, “Surely you mean communist? They are communists.”
This person waves his hand dismissively. “Communal, communist, same thing. You know what [...]
Comments Etiquette
Posted in Experiences, Random thoughts, tagged blogging, Kkrishnaa's Konfessions, musings, my life, personal, rants, writer's life, writing on August 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been getting a lot of hate mail and hate comments. You don’t see them because, of course, I don’t approve them.
I don’t understand this. I mean, I can understand it if your rant is against the book, because you’ve paid good money for it (assuming of, course, that you’ve bought it and not borrowed/pinched [...]
O Grammar, Where Art Thou?
Posted in Novel, Short Story, tagged grammar, writing on August 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Aspiring writers send me all sorts of stuff to read through. Here’s one from a writer who felt that what he had written was good.
“I didn’t knew if I could trust him. He was an addict and a liar and, though he assures me he wasn’t using again, his constricted pupils told me otherwise.”
And then [...]
Invasion of the Trojan Horse
Posted in Experiences, tagged Anti-virus software, AVG, freeware, Grisoft, random, rants, Trojan Horse on August 20, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I had a massive scare yesterday. My computer refused to boot. This was disastrous. Like, on a scale of 1-10, it was a catastrophic 8. ‘Cos like all lazy creatures I hadn’t made a back up.
Everything was fine till about ten days ago. And then this ominous message about some Trojan horse started flashing on [...]
Kkrishnaa’s Konfessions is now Available on Amazon
Posted in Kkrishnaa's Konfessions, Novel, tagged fiction, Kkrishnaa's Konfessions on August 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Yipee! It’s finally happened. You can now buy Kkrishnaa’s Konfessions from Amazon.
The Rat Race
Posted in Random thoughts, tagged exercise, humour, life, musings, my life, personal, pop philosophy, reflections, thoughts, writer’s life, writing on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is just one of those days. I had a feeling as soon as I got up that it was going to be one of those days. First, I overslept and didn’t get up at five as I had planned to and lost out on a good three hours of uninterrupted writing. And two, my [...]
DEVELOPING WELL-ROUNDED CHARACTERS
Posted in Novel, Screenplay, tagged character biographies, character sketches, cinema, fiction, film, screenwriting, television, writing on August 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Even before we begin writing a show or a movie, we do a lot of prelim writing work in churning out what is called the ‘show bible’. It contains the detailed concept, character sketches and the story. In some cases it even contains the budget, casting options and options for various talent – director, cameraman, [...]
The Great Indian Soap Factory
Posted in Screenplay, tagged career in Indian television, India, Indian television, screenwriting, writing, writing for television on August 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Some time ago, the Hindutan Times had carried a story, Bubble Trouble, on how the great Indian Soap Factory works. For all of you who are interetsed in writing for television, or are even remotely curious about it, do check it out.
The story gives various POVs – the channel’s, the producer’s, the writer’s. For the latter [...]
Writing Situational Comedy
Posted in Movie Reviews, Screenplay, tagged Bollywood, comedy, film, India, Movies, Sing is Kinng, writing on August 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »
The way to write good situational comedy it is to have quirky characters and then add as much conflict as you can from the beginning. Do not try to write funny. That’s the worst thing writers can do. They end spending too much time and energy trying to come with funny one-liners which only seem [...]
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