Tag: being a writer

• 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

  Novel Writing Basics, Vlog, Writing

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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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• Creating Realistic Characters

  

  Creating Realistic Characters is an hour-long webinar on characterisation basics. I will be doing a follow-up Webinar with the advance techniques used for characterisation, so make sure you attend this one. Webinar Details Date: 5th December 2020Time: 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (can go on till 12:30 pm) – Indian Standard Time Platform: YouTube LiveLink to the…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  December 3, 2020

  Webinar

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• 5 Elements Of Plot In Fiction

  

  Plot, one of the 5 main elements of fiction writing, is a term that confuses many new as well as veteran writers. When it comes to Fiction Writing, there is a big difference in the Story and the Plot. If you want to learn the difference between Story and Plot then read this article: Story…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  November 30, 2020

  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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• 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

  Novel Writing Basics, Podcasts, Vlog, Writing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Writing

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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

  Random, Writing

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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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• 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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• My New WIP- Sinister Town

  

  Exactly a year before, Deceived was only an idea in my head which kept on brewing constantly until I finally decided to get it on paper. And today here I am with Deceived getting published and another book’s first draft in hand. This sure has been one hell of a year for me. Let me…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  March 4, 2016

  My Books, Writing

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• The 3-Act Structure: In Detail

  

  In order to utilize the 3-Act Structure efficiently, there is a need for a systematic sequence of elements to be followed that carries the story forward.  In the 3-Act Structure, each act has some particular story moves and by following these particular set of acts, you can rest easy that there will be no place…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  February 1, 2016

  Writing

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• The 3-Act Structure: Introduction

  

  “You can’t plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley Planning a novel is the most important aspect of creating one. Even if you’re a pantster, at some or the other point, you’ll realise the need to arrange the novel in an order which will ensure that the novel…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  January 18, 2016

  Writing

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• Word Of The Week (WOW#34)

  Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. (me.) It’s a fun way to improve one’s vocabulary by learning new words every week. If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on one of…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  October 16, 2015

  WOW

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• 10 Essential Tools For Writers

  

  Every writer needs a certain set of tools in order to write. And, trust me, it’s not as simple as to just pick up a notebook and write. It might be for some writers (mostly intuitive writers,) but for most of us, there is a need for much more than just a pen and paper. If you wish…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  October 5, 2015

  Writing

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• Wrong Turn

  This short-story (1,000 words) is written for the photo-prompts at Describli.

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  September 23, 2015

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• Featured Writer At Describli (Yay!)

  

  I’m the featured writer at Describli this week. I was completely stoked when I read the email, while sipping on tea early in the morning and literally jumped up and down when I saw that Laura (the founder and CEO of Describli) herself congratulated me for it.

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  September 21, 2015

  My Books, Writing

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• 10 Things That Are Stopping You From Writing

  

  Every writer, whether they are big or small, experienced or newbie, published or unpublished, old or young, face the same fears and feel jittered before putting their work in front of the public (books, articles or any other content.) What are these fears? What are the reasons that demotivate writers from writing? And finally, how…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  September 12, 2015

  Writing

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