Why would you want to be a writer anyway? “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it” ― Roald Dahl Right after my Medium Milestone — my first 500 followers…
What my first 500 Medium followers mean to me “I am I: and I must follow that furrow, not copy another. That is the only justification for my writing, living.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary When I first — tentatively — started writing on Medium, I could not believe my good fortune when I…
And why that is OK I had made my plans. Found my resolve. My abandoned fantasy novel well and truly on my mind at the start of this month. I was ready to go NaNoWriMo. And then I didn’t. Still a week to November 2019 and I haven’t written a word of my novel. There’s…
What is the soundtrack of your life? For me, music is an indispensable and incomparable source of inspiration — my never failing muse. Unlike anything else, music taps into my psyche and gives voice to my inner feelings — even the ones I’d rather keep hidden. “Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful…
How ‘The Change’ affects a woman’s life I’m going through The Change, as is popularly said. Personally, I cannot help wondering what I am supposed to change into. In my 50-something years old life I have gone from infancy to toddler, from toddler to child, from child into adolescence, from adolescence into young adult, from…
How to reward yourself for a job well done “The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.” ― W. Somerset Maugham As a…