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• 10 Best Advice On Writing By Stephen King

  

  Stephen King, for me, is the God of writing. He knows how to create believable characters that will make you feel all kinds of emotions (a wide, wide range of emotions at that), he creates genre-defining works and his stories are simply incomparable to any other on the planet (though I do know a couple…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  July 4, 2021

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• Writing Vlog #2: Writing A Short Story From Scratch

  

  In this video, I have tried to capture my process of writing a short story. If you are a new writer or are curious about how writing is done, then I am sure you’ll enjoy this video. I you are a veteran writer then I am sure you will be able to relate to it…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  December 24, 2020

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• 7 Types Of Characters In Fiction

  

  Characterisation is one of the most important elements of any story, long or short. If you don’t get the characterisation right, chances are that your story will fall flat on its face and no writer wants that to happen! So the best way to make sure that your story stays with the reader long before…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  December 17, 2020

  Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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• Storyboard A Novel in 5 Easy Steps

  

  Storyboarding is a wonderful organising technique, that I feel, is highly underrated when it comes to fiction writing. It is a great tool to plot your novels and to put it all together in a coherent plot-line. I am an intuitive writer but working on multiple long-form fiction projects can be downright scary at times…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  November 11, 2020

  Novel Writing Basics, Plotting, Writing

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• Decoding Horror Genre For Writers

  

  Here’s the live stream of my 5th Webinar: Decoding Horror genre for Writers:

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  November 2, 2020

  Webinar, Writing

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• Finding The Right Idea

  

  I don’t think I have ever known, not even a single writer, who doesn’t get about a dozen ideas every day. But imagine what would happen if you’d start taking all of those ideas seriously?  It’ll be chaos! So you get my point?  As a beginner, you might feel the need, a very compulsive need,…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  June 18, 2020

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• Webinar on Introduction To Creative Writing Basics

  

  Webinar #1 : Introduction To Creative Writing Basics Attend my free Webinar on Introduction To Creative Writing Basics on 30th April 2020 at 11:00am on Facebook Live. Here’s the link to the Facebook Event on my author page: https://www.facebook.com/events/527107161510397/?ts=pss Do give my Fb page a follow to stay updated about the event. Don’t waste your…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  April 24, 2020

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• Character Profile Sheets (CPS) – Part 2

  

  Character Profile Sheets are a great literary tool that help you in profiling your characters, especially the main characters of your story. They not only help you in being consistent with your character’s traits throughout your story or manuscript but also help a great deal in creating as well as painting the character arc you…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  June 8, 2019

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• A Comprehensive Look At Literary Devices

  

  As a writer, it becomes a necessity at some point or the other, to understand as many technicalities of the craft as possible. Whether you’re an intuitive writer or a deliberate one, there will be times when you’ll have to break the literary rules in order to create your masterpiece, but in order to do…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  February 11, 2019

  Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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• The 4-Act-Structure: Introduction

  

    As almost all the plotters would swear by, outlining a story helps a writer greatly in making sense of the story for the readers. We, as writers, know what our story is and how it plays out, the difficult bit is to put in into words in a systematic way and have it make sense…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  January 21, 2019

  Novel Writing Basics, Plotting, Writing

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• Camp NaNoWriMo April’18

  

  Hello world, I’m back from yet another break! Like every year since 2014, I’m participating in Camp NaNoWriMo April’18. For this month I don’t have a lot planned out, but just a basic idea of what needs to be done. I’m mainly going to go for 2 things this time – sorting out the ending…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  April 2, 2018

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• Naming The Writer’s Unconscious – A Little Girl And Her Puppy

  

  I always read craft books not once, but several times. I guess that’s the best way to really get the techniques and the wisdom they have to offer. Lately, I’ve been re-reading Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott and came across a concept, more like a paragraph or two, where author Lamott mentions about naming the unconscious: “My…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  April 9, 2017

  Writing

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• What Is Writer’s Block? And 3 Things to Keep In Mind

  

  There are a lot of people who don’t believe in the existence of Writer’s Block, but let’s face it, even though you don’t want to name it, there are periods of time in every writer’s life when you simply can’t write (no matter how much you want to!) You can call it a “bad phase”,…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  March 16, 2017

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• 10 Questions To Help You Determine The POV(s) For Your Story

  

  Choosing the main Point Of View(s) for your story is either the simplest or the hardest thing you’ll ever come across while writing your book. Determining the voice which narrates or unfolds your story is a tricky thing because if you select the wrong one your story is doomed. Sometimes (a few precious instances), you…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  January 26, 2017

  Podcasts, Writing

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• Point Of Views (POVs)

  

  Point Of View, casually known as POV, is one of  the most important literary devices that is used in fiction writing. Determining the perspective from which the story is told is often the making or the breaking point of a novel. If you make a wrong decision, your readers will be highly disappointed due to…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  September 16, 2016

  Writing

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• The Font Effect

  

  While working on my first book, Deceived, I hit the much-dreaded writer’s block at a very crucial time – right when my book needed revising. It felt like I hit the bottom of my creative well and I had to abandon my manuscript for almost 2 months. I was completely devastated and after a few fruitless weeks…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  September 10, 2016

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• How I Started Writing

  

  In the last six years of my writing career (as of 2019 end) I’ve been asked this questions now and again so I thought that I’ll write up a post on it as I am better at writing than verbally explaining my feelings and thoughts. It always irks me whenever someone, generally an old friend…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  August 22, 2016

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• Freewriting – Everything You Need To Know

  

  Freewriting is a very important prewriting technique that not only helps you to get over your writer’s block, but also to tap into your sub-conscience mind and see what all ideas and stories are hiding there. Most of the times, we get stuck while writing a story, or an article, and simply don’t know what…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  August 3, 2016

  Podcasts, Writing

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• All About First Drafts

  

  A First Draft is one of the most basic entities of fiction-writing and it lays the basic foundation of a novel. If you’re a writer then you probably might have come across this term more than a thousand times already, and if not then you’ve come to the right place. Just for the sake of…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  July 15, 2016

  Writing

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• Clicked – #Blogbattle

  BlogBattle is a weekly short story challenge in which participants write short stories using a single word for inspiration. You can visit Blogbattle’s blog to find out more about it at Blogbattle: Inspired To Write. This week’s word is Photograph. NOTE: This is a piece of fiction any resemblance to any person or place (living or dead) is…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  June 7, 2016

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• Editing Vs Revising

  

  We all are aware of what revising a draft means and what it means to get your manuscript edited, but very few writers really know the real difference between the two. If you’ll ask around, the most common answer is that what we do ourselves is revising and what an editor does is editing. But…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  April 16, 2016

  Writing

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