Neha's Notebook

INTRODUCTION Are you a multipassionate writer with a love for all things related to words, colors, art & notebooks?   Well, so am I, too!   In this video show, I explore the intersection between writing and visual art by sharing some ideas about combining the two mediums through the creative process of art journaling.   WHAT IS AN ART JOURNAL? Also known by the terms ‘visual journal’ or ‘art diary’, an ‘art journal’ is a daily journal or notebook which often combines elements like words, sketches, drawings and other mixed media assortments such as collages, scraps, photographs, paintings and clippings!   From TikTok style asmr’s to throughly crafted chunky books, nowadays both the online as well as offline world is bubbling with a brobdingnagian amount of art journal ideas.   There are oodles of possibilities!   I’ll share twelve of these ideas with you from my knowledge and experience.   So, let’s breeze through!   12 TYPES & IDEAS FOR ART

  OVERVIEW Characters! We humans are teeny-weeny characters wobbling and steering the craft of our lives carrying within us oodles of personalities and medleys of emotions each, featuring its own set of characteristics…   But we humans aren’t just these character formations of life, but, astoundingly, we can also create our own characters too. We don’t just find characters in our real and everyday lives, but we can also discover new and interesting characters through our imagination, storytelling and writing.   All it takes is imagination, practice and understanding!   In this video show, you’re going to learn and understand what a character is; what is the meaning of a characteristic; and seven important points related to these concepts!   So, let’s go!   WHAT IS A CHARACTER? A character is any form or appearance; alive or dead; animate or inanimate; living or non-living; human or non-human, existing in real life or only inside your he

BULBUL'S CONFLICT Bulbul is a writer. On Day 1 she is working on a project in which she has to write a short article for a fashion magazine. In addition to doing the relevant research required for the article, what she did was to browse through a wordboard she has created for fashion-related words she would use in the article.   On Day 2 she is writing a children’s short story for an education brand. Again she flips through her folders to take a sneak peak into a wordboard she has created for words related to ‘writing for children’…and another she created for words related to her short story’s setting. On Day 3, however, she is beginning to work on a longform book on the topic of ‘botanicals’. In order to do some research for this writing project, she has to collect data from various places such as by visiting a botanicals lab, taking tour inside a botany museum, meeting a botany professor, chatting with some botanical farm owners, and making notes from some thick-rimme

Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho My rating: 0 of 5 stars All of us, in one way or the other, are mad. Madness. What exactly is this madness? How can we differentiate people who are mad, from the ones who are not mad? How can we endeavour to define who is crazier than whom? And what fallacy is there, if at all, in being mad and in going crazy in our life? And if there isn’t any, then why are we humans so afraid to be crazy and different? Why are we so eager to lean upon the shoulders of security, relationships & things like that, in order to feel safe, secure and loved in life? If you wouldn’t have to think about what other people will think of you, then would you still resist following the way of your true madness? For, it is only when we eat the fruit of good and evil, is that we start hiding our own unique insanities, and craziness. But aren’t these also the very qualities that make us uniquely different from the rest of the people? Perh

Introduction Words are the pearls, beads & trinkets with which we can craft jeweled ornaments and build towering castles; putting together the pieces of our fragmented human selves; and carving a rich spectrum of all those tunes and rhythms which cause our heart to pulsate into a feeling - deep, intense and alive.   Though vocabulary is not the first of things that makes one a good writer, but it is a decoration that surely embellishes the tapestry of one’s writing, whether it is poetry or short story or novel or even a basic article.   Famous writers speak of words as being those little gifts that we not only enjoy & relish, but also reproduce & share in ways which make millions of humans to think, feel and wonder.   So, in this video show, you’re going to know and learn about an incredible tool related to all things words; a tool that you’ll find to be utterly useful and interesting in your own writing practice.   This tool is called as ‘