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October 18, 2014
Contest 7: Doppelgangers and Duality
This contest is OPEN. Last date for entries is Wednesday, 29 October, 2014. The winner will be announced on Friday, 31 October, 2014. Welcome to Contest 7. The theme of this fortnight is Doppelgangers. In fiction and folklore, doppelgangers have always held a prominent place. A doppelganger is a look-alike or a ‘double’ of a […]
October 17, 2014
Contest 6 Results: And the Winner is…
Thank you all, for participating in Contest 6. The topic was a rather dramatic ‘The Fall of Peace’. We had 15 entries in all, many of which were filled with insight and verve. The most common themes of the contest were the following: War is necessary to maintain peace The foundations of peace are often […]
October 14, 2014
Meetup 152: Alternate History in Fiction
Last Saturday, our Write Club member, Bright, hosted a session on Alternate History. If you’re too lazy to read the whole Wikipedia entry, alternate history is a sub-branch of fiction where the story is based on a ‘what if’ question asked of a famous event in history. Necessarily, these questions are provocative and far-fetched. The […]
October 5, 2014
Contest 6: Writing on The Fall of Peace
This contest is OPEN. Last date for entries is Wednesday, 15 October, 2014. The winner will be announced on Friday, 17 October, 2014. Welcome to Contest 6. This time, in honour of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, whose birthday occurred last week, we will write on peace. Of course, it is impossible to write about peace without […]
October 4, 2014
Contest 5 Results: And the Winner is…
And just like that, Contest 5 has come and gone. We had 20 entries in all. Thank you for participating, guys. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did. Perhaps you would like to – if you have time – to peruse the list of entries and give feedback to those you […]
October 2, 2014
Love and Longing in Art: Achilles and Patroclus
The story of Achilles and Patroclus is central to the story of Iliad. It is the death of Patroclus – when clad in Achilles’s armour – that ends the feud between Achilles and Agamemnon. It is the death of his friend that ignites Achilles into action, and sets into motion a sequence of events that […]
October 1, 2014
3 Things that Bring Out a Budding Writer’s Talent
Last week, I got involved with the good folk at Campus Diaries in their content development program. To kick things off, they got all their interns and young writers to send me a list of questions. I answered them all, of course. Then I thought it will be nice to feature some of the longer […]
September 30, 2014
What Money Is, and How It Is Different From Currency
I’ve always thought money was a subjective topic. Whenever I discuss money with people, it becomes apparent very quickly that we all have different associations with money. It means different things to different people. To some it means financial security. To others it may mean status. If for some it’s a means to buy things […]
September 29, 2014
Meetup 151: Metafiction and Minimalism
Srividya hosted a session last Saturday on Metafiction. It was a good session because many of our members – including me – didn’t have much of an idea of what metafiction was. I can’t say that we’re all masters at the topic now, but we’ve made a start. For me, speaking in general terms, metafiction […]
September 23, 2014
Meetup 150: Rhetorical Devices in Writing
Last Saturday, Sagar hosted a session at Write Club on rhetorical devices. It has been a long time at Write Club since we had the host bring handouts and engage us in a technical discussion of writing. Even being a professional author I must say I don’t spend as much time as I need to […]
