Writing

I have been thinking about what to write today and have many short story ideas in various states. I need a solid day's worth of writing over the weekend where I can knock off at least one short story and feel accomplished. Putting off writing short stories feels

Today's goal was to finish "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage" an essay by David Foster Wallace. This is my second essay by DFW. The first one was "Roger Federer as Religious Experience". It took me a few days to finish

Finally, I found what I was searching for. The following post is about my (or should I say our) first semester results. ‘Our’ because it tied us together as students and even more as friends. This was written a long time back and was reserved to be one of my

I have this fond memory from my childhood, which I want to write about. The memory is about a barefoot journey to a nearby bakery to satiate my hunger. It is neither a special nor an important event, but it is one of the vivid memories. I feel a pang

When I started my first job as an engineer, I wanted to learn more about the business world. I was fascinated by the success stories and how hard work and perseverance can move mountains. My first job was fantastic. The company I worked for shipped me to Singapore on projects

Writing is a technology—one of the oldest. Writing systems evolved thousands of years after spoken language. One of the first records of writing was to record transactions in Mesopotamia. Writing as a structured technology of communication has come a long way. Writing serves many purposes, but the most important

Today is the seventh day of the writing journey. The one thing that held me accountable was to stop wasting time on low-priority things and focus back on the one thing - writing. I even had to cut down a bit on the reading time. Developing the muscle for writing

Writing can be discomforting. Writing makes you vulnerable. Writing pushes you to search deep within and challenges you to validate your biases. In most cases, writing will be transformative as you uncover the truth, which may or may not conform to your belief system. The process of writing and rewriting