Writing
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Why be a writer if you are not going to use your most powerful weapons, which are words?
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
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‘India is fighting for her soul’: Arundhati Roy on fascism, Modi and being a writer in today’s world
Arundhati Roy
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Writing badly is easy. Novelist Amitava Kumar has some alternative suggestions in a new book
Amitava Kumar
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At the end of the day, how do you avoid clichés? It’s all about thinking outside the box
Nana Ariel, Aeon
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‘The Sadeian Woman’: How Angela Carter empowered her readers to embrace sexual liberation
Marine Furet, The Conversation
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‘No Nation for Women’ flows with haunting lyricism born of pain, suffering and violation
Saikat Majumdar
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Can writing about trauma and violence actually help in healing? Some writers have tried it
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Why have writers become more important than their work in the English-language literary world?
Amit Chaudhuri
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Unsolicited advice to writers: Why you should learn to love the full stop.
Joe Moran, The Conversation
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No, dear writer, don’t be a helicopter parent to your book (and don’t tell us how the baby was made)
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
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I’m talking to you: Are second-person narratives in literature effective?
James Peacock, The Conversation
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How to be a writer: Why everyone should learn to write their own messy stories
Sayantani Dasgupta
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Meet Aqui Thami from Darjeeling, whose travelling library is putting the spotlight on women’s books
Urvashi Bahuguna
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The poet as architect: How poems are designed and constructed to convey the sense of space
Sumana Roy
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You’re prepared for the agonising writing of your first book, but nobody warns you about the second
Tashan Mehta
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Embracing your complicated family and four other lessons on fiction writing from Amy Tan
Harsimran Gill
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Inside Sangam House: A poet offers a glimpse into India’s only funded residency for writers
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Other Colours
Scroll Staff
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Publishers insist writers stick to one genre. But what if they don’t want to be a ‘genre author’?
Kiran Manral
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Memo to writers: Will you let a computer co-author your next novel?
Leah Henrickson, The Conversation