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What is Anthropomorphism in writing? A process comprising of the attribution of human traits, characteristics, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities like gods, animals, or objects. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human mind; and is employed as a storytelling tool and artistic/writing device. In mythology, anthropomorphism is the perception of the divine appearing as a deity or in a human form carrying a set of human personality traits and characteristics; In fables, fairy tales, science fiction and fantasy genres, anthropomorphism is utilised as a device to attribute human characteristics to non-human characters like animals, creatures, computers, robots, objects, motifs etc. In science, it represents attributing human emotions, behaviours and tendencies to various animals for the purpose of research. It is derived from the Greek words anthrōpos ("human") and morphē ("form"). Follow for more interesting snippets on writing, art and l

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath Blowing rainbow bubbles Watching a family movie with a bag of chips in hand A sketchbook filled with drawings of wax crayons A box of trinkets Camera containing printer… The world outside is filled with ideas…oodles and oodles of ideas. Ideas stem from great imagination and from infinite possibilities waiting to be explored. But how many of these ideas truly stick in our heads? How many of these really catch and grasp our attention? In this book, Made To Stick, the authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath explore what makes up a sticky idea and what are the main villians of a sticky idea. One of the main villians of a sticky idea is the Curse of Knowledge. To explain this, the authors take the example of ‘Tappers and Listeners’. During a research, some people were divided into two groups. The task of one group was to tap with their fingers some songs, and the task of the listener group was to identify thes

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WHAT IS BILDUNGSROMAN IN WRITING? Have you read novels like To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, The Perks Of Being a Wallflower, Great Expectations and Paper Towns? There is something common in them apart from brillant writing. That is, a character who seeks spiritual transformation or walks on a journey to enlightenment. This kind of a novel or story comes under a genre called BILDUNGSROMAN. A bildungsroman novel is a novel depicting a character’s formative years of spiritual education. A writing genre that focuses on a character seeking answers to deep life questions and experiencing transformation along the spiritual journey. A coming-of-age novel or story that elaborates a character’s path to enlightenment. Composed from the German words bildung (education) and Roman (novel)! Follow for more interesting snippets on writing, art and life! www.nehasnotebook.com Subscribe:  Neha's Notebook  |  My Little library  |  Raindrop Stories  

When I first read the book The Catcher in the Rye, I was fascinated by the straightforwardly simple expression of writing which is also rooted in the emotional depths rather than merely branching out from the surface. The range in which the thoughts and feelings are expressed in the book sounds simple enough for a layman but powerful enough to add into the favourites book list of Mr. Bill Gates himself. Another example is the poetry of Rumi. Or, the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. Simple yet profound and deep.   If you have also read a book like this, you too would have experienced the same feeling in which there is much detail of thought and much elaboration of emotions underpinned into the words, something where a space of awareness is holding the strings of the thoughts rather than otherwise. So, this gorgeous writing tool namely ‘Description’ helps you do just the same for your writing and for your thoughts in general. Once you have the space cleared for the scene to app

COPYEDITING CHECKLIST ·  Possessive pronouns ·  Dangling modifiers ·  Missing articles/Article insertion ·  Redundancy ·  Improper/Lacking relevance, clarity and/or context ·  Unidentifiable pronoun(s) ·  Inappropriate verb ·  Tense inconsistency ·  Punctuation {commas, hyphens, colons, semi-colons, full-stops, etc.} ·  Spellings ·  Rephrasing · Fragments  http://www.nehasnotebook.com/  Subscribe:  Neha's Notebook  |  My Little library  |  Raindrop Stories

Nora Ephron is a screenwriter whose scripts for Silkwood , When Harry Met Sally , and Sleepless in Seattle have all been nominated for Academy Awards. Ephron started her career as a journalist for the New York Post and Esquire. She became a journalist because of her high school journalism teacher. Ephron still remembers the first day of her journalism class. Although the students had no journalism experience, they walked into their first class with a sense of what a journalist does: A journalists gets the facts and reports them. To get the facts, you track down the five Ws—who, what, where, when, and why. As students sat in front of their manual typewriters, Ephron's teacher announced the first assignment. They would write the lead of a newspaper story. The teacher reeled off the facts: "Kenneth L. Peters, the principal of Beverly Hills High School, announced today that the entire high school faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new

Flowers blossom into flowers only after a series of winds hit the saplings. Before pearls are born, they nestle in the cocoon of the oyster for a span of time. Butterfly rests in a gooey shelter until it transforms into a butterfly. Everything in nature takes its own duration of time to become perfect and the way it is meant to be. So does a piece of writing… Stephen King defines this period as “Recuperation Period”. Joseph Sugarman calls it “Incubation Period”. This is a duration of time when a piece of writing has been written but is not ready to be put out into the world. During this period, we just let the piece stay in its place until it organizes itself in our head, so we can edit and revise it to its best possible perfection. Whether it is a stream of consciousness journal entry or a poem or an article, this duration of time is important for it to become refined and polished! http://www.nehasnotebook.com/   Subscribe:  Neha's Notebook  |  My Little library

 Words are no lesser than gemstones. The more you have, the greater is your treasure. As for now, add to this treasure of yours these 11 aesthetic words with wondrous meanings. Read on! 1.     Bumbershoot : Umbrella 2.     Raconteur : A skilled storyteller 3.     Jouska : A hypothetical conversation that you play over and over in your head 4.      Cosmogyral : Whirling or travelling around the universe 5.      Zibaldone : A heap of things, miscellany, mixture 6.      Blazemoche : The therapeutic tranquility one feels while listening to the sounds of burning firewood 7.     Drapetomania : An irresistible desire to run away 8.     Twitterpated : Love-struck 9.     Chattel : A personal possession 10.                         Bellwether : A leader 11.                        Amanuensis : Skilled in note-taking Browse full playlist of Interesting & Aesthetic words Subscribe:  Neha's Notebook  |  My Little library  |  Raindrop Stories

Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy by Sadhguru What is destiny? What is the nature of human mind? What does it mean to respond to life? In this book, Sadhguru takes us into the detailed mechanism of how a human system is designed. From topics like responsibility to mystical dimensions of chakras and energy channels, he delves deep into the engineering of a well-designed human individual. With cutting insights and crisp pointers, he describes to the readers how to keep and maintain our individual human systems as well as sadhanas (tools) for meditation. In this review, I share 43 insights that I learned from reading the book. Read on, get inspired and enjoy! 1. If you can use it when you want and put it aside when you don’t, the mind can be a fantastic tool. 2. The only solution for all the ills that plague humanity is self-transformation. 3. Self-transformation is not incremental self-improvement. Self-transformation is achieved not by morals or ethics o

The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho In a journey, is the destination more significant or is the journey itself? What would we do if reached our destination and discovered the outcome? We may forget the destination but never the journey. Journey, when we make it, becomes a part of us. Isn’t it so? Well, this novel is a parable depicting the journey the author makes towards Santiago in order to find his sword. On his journey, he is accompanied by a guide named Petrus who reveals to him several insights and teaches him a set of meditative exercises. The book is one part story and one part these exercises. The book is enlightening and in this review, I list 27 insights and lessons I gained from reading this book. #1 Free yourself from the burdens you have created in your life. #2 In order to grow, we have to keep moving forward, adapting ourselves to new situations and receiving the blessings that life generously offers to those who seek them. #3 When we are moving towards