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Dear Neel #11

It is with a heavy heart that I have to inform you…. sorry. Let’s not make it a professional disappointment letter. But truth be told my heart is heavy today. As heavy as it has been in a decade. And that is saying something, is it not? I realize I might have said a lot about my feelings so far, but this is different. This is like a claustrophobic strangle around my neck and my eyes, a choke of pain and tears, a thud without a sound, pressing me down further and further away. I feel like I can n...

Dear Neel #10

It’s been longer than I intended it to be and I am sorry about that. But again, considering my last sentence again, I feel like I have nothing to be sorry about, it was just that life took its toll again and I just couldn’t deal with words anymore. However, I am sorry that I couldn’t be with you again until right now. But does it really matter? Does it really matter to you?

Anyway, it has been scorching here these past few months. The rains last night were a breezy wanted relief. And yet it f...

Dear Neel #9

Oh! this month has been eventful, not really back to normal but eventful. I have written more this month than I might have written in the whole of last year. I don’t know if it is a general excitement of my exaggeration or not, I really don’t know, I haven’t really measured. All I know is I have written more than 50k words for NANOWRIMO and I have drafted at least 25 short poems as a participant of NANOWRIMO. The whole point behind the participation in both projects was keeping myself busy and I...

Dear Neel #8

Dear Neel #8

It has been good to be writing again. Yes, can you believe that I have started writing again, some poetry, one short story, and one draft of an entire novel? I don’t know what to call it, because it is nothing but a gist of ideas, but somehow I am inching towards it more than any of my current work. Anyways, I am still taking it slow, one small step at a time, writing a few words, reading a few pages a day, that is all I can manage. That is all I am happy with. Would you believe ...

Dear Neel #7

I am finally out of my reading slump. I am reading sweet books. Happy books. Yes. I am better health wise. I am taking things slow, not pushing myself to my extremes, and I am, for the first time trying not to care much about every single thing that I cannot control. Not that I can really do anything otherwise, but that’s how it is. I am trying. One small step at a time. I have also realized I have a tendency to invent chaos and more work in my life even when I don’t have to, I think I am worrie...

Dear Neel #6

Dear Neel

I can’t believe this is just the sixth letter I am writing to you. It feels like I have been writing you for ages, telling you undeserved stories and keeping you up to date with my goings on. Not that I hate any of it, but I thought it had to be the 60th letter by now. At least it feels so. The feeling of exhaustion is not minimal, if I may say.

Coming to today’s or shall I say this year’s first letter, it does not in any way give me immense pleasure to tell you that for the most...

Dear Neel #5

Dearest Neel, I almost forgot to write you a letter this month. Almost. Because see I made it a point to write before the month ends, before the year ends, before 2021 bids adieu, before the two’s welcome us. I have long given up on writing to you on the 15th of every month, I have lost hope of ever being on time anymore, long given up on you writing back to me. But the thing is when I have nothing else to look forward to, I kind of look forward to these letters. These one-sided letters. These l...

Dear Neel #4

It took me two months to get back to you. You, on the other hand, seem not to care. What carelessness you portray? What deceptiveness? And I try to perceive- reality, time. Obviously, I fail.

It had never been my intention to stop writing to you, to ghost you for a whole of sixty-five days. But life kept happening. My body kept floating. Weight, increasing. I did not realize how long it has been until today, until I started writing to you, and realized how much time has passed, how much has h...

Dear Neel #3

Dear Neel #3

Dearest Neel, what kind of a year is this? Didn’t it simply sail through? Can you believe it is already September which is flying by us while I laze around writing letters to you? Nine months of a year gone by and what have I done? Half the year I have either been ill or looked after someone who is ill, the other half I have been worried sick about being ill. In what little time was left I read Proust. I read about food and literature and going for walks and beach views at Balbec...

Free Ebook 5th-9th September

Free Ebooks 5th-9th September. Attaching the links below.

I am offering Posies, 03:21 Am and Resignation of an Angel for free as ebooks on Amazon all through the next five days. Go grab it soon.

If you don’t read poetry this might be a start. You are getting a free book on your kindle. Nothing to lose really, If you don’t like it you can dnf. And if you do get through it don’t forget to leave a word on Amazon and Goodreads. As Indie writers word of mouth does really help us 

Leaving you with a qu...