Are you a content creator? Then you have to grow your platform! You’ve heard that one, right? This mantra is everywhere. And so is that word, which in the world…
Posts published in “Writing Life”
“Fishing baskets are employed to catch fish; but when the fish are got, the men forget the baskets. Snares are employed to catch hares; but when the hares are got,…
“The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.” — Ken Kesey The world is full of mysteries. What is dark matter made of? How was Stonehenge built? What’s…
Ever since I started my recent intense writing journey, the number of topics I want to write about has been expanding steadily (exponentially would have been a much snappier choice…
To the books that helped me long ago Dear books, It feels strange to write to you, yet this letter seems necessary after everything we’ve been through together. I believe that…
Unless you are a fan of action-comedy or of Dwayne Johnson or of Kevin Hart or of any of the combination of the above, you may have never heard about…
This is another post, written for Medium, that applies fully to any online writing. In case you are not familiar with Medium, a clap is its equivalent of Facebook’s like,…
Context: this post was written for a Medium publication, but its main idea applies to any writing, especially to writing online articles. You can find the original post along with…
Few occupations have as many myths and misconceptions associated with them as writing. Whether because of the deceiving simplicity of the process (after all, typing is a pretty common skill…
As Jerry Maguire (or rather Tom Cruise, pronouncing a line written by Cameron Crowe) once astutely observed, we live in a cynical world. The kind of a world, where you…