Shukla Lal
Writer’s block . Just keep the intensity of the urge to write alive .
I had a writer’s block for over 40 years!
Over the years I was urged by family and friends to write and just could not. But I kept close to academic studies and did translation for 40 years from Hindi to English/ English to Hindi.
One day my secret yearning literally 'Burst forth in a stream of consciousness'
, in 2016 and became a spate at age 80 in May 2017 in a form of a cluster of 29 poems in Hindustani, 7 short stories and a novel Rano and Phulo , written in English by December 2017. From January 2018 to April another book was finished Floating Logs and by October a third begun titled Soul’s Rapture .
I had a writer’s block for over 40 years!
Over the years I was urged by family and friends to write and just could not. But I kept close to academic studies and did translation for 40 years from Hindi to English/ English to Hindi.
One day my secret yearning literally 'Burst forth in a stream of consciousness'
, in 2016 and became a spate at age 80 in May 2017 in a form of a cluster of 29 poems in Hindustani, 7 short stories and a novel Rano and Phulo , written in English by December 2017. From January 2018 to April another book was finished Floating Logs and by October a third begun titled Soul’s Rapture .
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