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Short Stories 1.0 + The Best Announcement!

19th October 20176th May 2018 By Ashutosh Gursale5 Comments

Announcement Time! Before I start — A very Happy Diwali to everyone. A few months ago, Codex Publishing House was formed and to give a chance to new authors in getting published, they conducted a search for the best short stories to be included in the anthology — The Midget Allegories! It gives me immense pleasure to announce that 6 of my short stories have been selected in the anthology! YES, I still can't believe I'm going to get the tag of being a published author. *Heavy Breathing. (more…)...

Writing tips #4(Character Development)

6th April 201730th April 2018 By Ashutosh Gursale26 Comments

Greetings fellow bloggers & readers! Let us imagine a situation where I'd greet each one of you by your own names. Wouldn't that make you more likely to read my posts with much more enthusiasm? Indeed, it's true because our names are something we all love to be addressed with & names, in general, are what our minds remember the best. This brings me to the second most important element of our recipe— Characters! Before we begin here is the list we are following: #1 – Word Count and Story Length #2 – Choosing the Genre/ Conceptualizing the Story #3 – Sequencing the Plot #4 – Character Development #5 – First Person/ Second Person/ Third Person Narrative #6 – The Power of Foreshadowing How many of you have heard about the great detective, Sherlock Holmes? Or the famous secret agent James Bond? Now, if you haven't read about them you may not know what their story is or how they are as individuals but you can surely guess that Sherlock Holmes is...

Writing Tips #3(Sequencing the Plot)

23rd March 201730th April 2018 By Ashutosh Gursale8 Comments

Warm regards, wonderful readers and amazing writers! You have now reached that step of your recipe, where the tastemaker is added to the dish. Without this, your stories would be nothing but meaningless collection of words. Still wondering what I'm talking about? It's the plot of your story! If you start writing a story without a plot, then I'm pretty sure you'll keep coming across writer's blocks after every scene. Before we begin, the steps of beginning our story are still unchanged: #1 – Word Count and Story Length #2 – Choosing the Genre/ Conceptualizing the Story #3 – Sequencing the Plot #4 – Character Development #5 – First Person/ Second Person/ Third Person Narrative #6 – The Power of Foreshadowing By now, if you've followed the previous parts then you're pretty acquainted with the wants of your story and know what genre you would write in. Pat your back, you've earned it. As you move further to the story's plot, you should know how necessary is it to have...