Neha's Notebook

The season of autumn is a classical metaphor representing the process, the cycle of life that we seem to witness not only outside, but also inside our minds. Thoughts and emotions flutter away, sweeping and fleeting like temporary gusts of wispy wind. What remains is fragments of memory, like fallen leaves and clusters of mist... I've recently written and posted this short poem on the theme of autumn. You may like to read, listen and watch. Here's the link:  https://youtube.com/shorts/9jSeOq1iL9E?feature=share Thank you & Good day!👍🙂🍁 Neha 

Hello! In the previous post, I published the review piece for the book ‘Stephen King on Writing’ , which I had been reading lately and finished quite a few days ago.  Followed by the book review, in this article I intend to elaborate the writing lessons I’ve learned and extracted from this book, as well as some of the tips & ideas shared by Mr. Stephen King herein. With this, let’s move forward and read on these! #1  WRITE WITH THE DOOR CLOSED. REWRITE WITH DOOR OPEN. Typically, the aim of initial freewriting process is to get the idea/story down on the paper (or document). Mr. King writes, that ideally this process should be carried out by blocking out the world, which represents the part of us which is responsible for critiquing or rationalizing things, name it intellect. Bringing in the voice of logic and intellect too early and too soon in our writing, carries with it the tendency to spoil the fruit of the story. A story, after all, is something which originates from