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Writing Strategy: On

 People talk. All do. But, sometimes talking is not proper when you are talking about other people, no matter what your alibi is. It's either you were jealous, envious or simply bitter. Yes, when people talk behind you, it is either they are wanting attention, or they want to ruin someone. Well, like my characters in my stories, there are aplenty of ideas for my readers getting to know someone by simply reflecting on the words being used by a certain character. Yes, words have weigh on your character as a person. If you are respectable person, you won't say words you might regret later, or worse, put people in a bad light. Unless you have the right motivation to do so and be a messenger of good news, enlightenment and so on. Every time we hear stories that this so and so has this and that, we always think of why. Why are these stories cropping up, who are the promoters? What they after for? How are they getting sane out of this maligning spree or what you may call them? Yes, ...

Writing Strategy: On Getting Inspired Everyday

 Getting inspiration from anything within reach is just a piece of cake to other writers . The rest suffers from what we call the-alibi-not-to-write- a-single-word thingy. Yes, for not all times we have the energy to go on with our writing. The lonely path toward making oneself "unseen and unheard" of, for a week, month or year; focusing time and resources to getting a story done till readers are clamoring for more. So how do we get inspiration to get going, moving till THE END part is done? Well, here are some ways to get inspiration even without the energy to do so. As long as you are treating yourself a serious one in your passion to stitching characters, events, settings and motivation-- you're on to the exciting journey toward having written your magnum opus and publishing it for the world to partake -- both fun and wisdom. 1. Look around you-- see, feel, smell, touch the different stimuli which could be a germ of an idea or springboard to jaw-dropping, unstoppable...

Nightmare of Kerala

 Unselfishly I left My Father and Mother, I left behind my Sisters and Brothers. Leaving My beloved Family and gave up everything And sacrificed everything to be the Follower of Christ I put on hold, my dreams, my normal desires To live in the midst of the world with no desire for its pleasure To be a member of every family yet belonging to none God called me to save souls for Eternal Life. I gave up my life wholeheartedly to serve God and others To have a heart of for charity and a heart for chastity As a warrior and compassionate servant of God I carried onward, no matter the cost. When Kerala floods washed away and destroyed the homes and lives There was no path to escape the destructive violent rains! I cried and broke out in loneliness and emptiness when My Brothers and Sisters in Christ fell all around Struggling to survive and save their lives from the Floods that was washing away Those who survived floods were Emotionally, Physically Scared. I watched as a Mother crying fo...

Roaming 'round

 Not all things that are broken should be fixed. Yes, for brokenness is a wonderful experience. Oh, don't make your eyebrow higher than your moral. For no one has the right to fix something; need not bother, will you? Let the one having such brokenness be the one to heal him/her- self. Let time heals the broken ego, spirit or what. Don't ever bother to say a piece of your mind, for no one has the right to, unless you're the one suffering. Suffer if you must, and feel all the pain. Yes, test your strength and grit and all. For the only way knowing your inner power is through your own undoing. Peeling banana is exposing the inside to the elements before you could eat such a kind of fruit.. Liken to our ego, when exposed to failure, judgment and all... either we close our shell and hide, or face the elements and see our inner strength. To withstand the test of fate, one must muster his/her power within. Through the peeling off outer layers, we tend to become vulnerable. and...