Tag: on writing

• Copyright For Writers – Everything You Need To Know

  

  Everything you need to know about copyrighting your work as a writer.

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  February 25, 2022

  Writing

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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

  Random

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• Guided Writing Groups – Write With Me

  

  I present to you Guided Writing Groups – 3 Tiers of Exclusive Writing Groups! In all the workshops I’ve conducted and having spoken to over a 100 budding writers, the main problem with each and everyone’s writing, that I have been able to identify so far are two: lack of motivation (or simply not knowing…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  May 24, 2021

  Guided Writing Groups

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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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• 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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• 10 Ways To Prepare For NaNoWriMo 2020

  

  NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month is around the corner and I am really looking forward to it particularly this year because of the entire lockdown situation. I simply cannot wait to get back to one of my story’s draft and start writing again motivated by all the NaNo energy on my social media feeds!…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  October 9, 2020

  Writing

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• Prompt-Writing

  

  Prompt-writing is one of the best tools for fiction writers. Period. You’ll find various definitions for it on the internet, but for me, it is simply what the name suggests: A topic around which a short piece of fiction is written promptly. Generally, the said piece of fiction is in the range of 100-1000 words…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  August 2, 2020

  Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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• Discovering The Writer Within

  

  The first place you need to begin, especially while starting a long-form fiction project (or re-starting it), is to discover yourself as a writer – to find out what kind of a writer you are. Because unless you do it, you won’t know how to proceed further, especially once the initial flame of anticipation and…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  June 12, 2020

  Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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• Different Types Of Editing

  

  Editing is the process in which a manuscript is modified, corrected and polished thoroughly. In the literary world, there are different kinds of editing. Editing is very subjective, depending upon what exactly is lacking or needs improvement regarding the overall quality of the individual manuscript. For example, in some manuscript, prose needs tightening, whereas in…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  May 9, 2020

  Editing, Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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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

  Events, Webinar

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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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• 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

  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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• 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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• 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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• Fiction Writing With Author Heena (Ep. 01)

  Hello, friends. Finally, I’ve started my Writing Podcast series. I hope you’ll like it.   Thank you for watching! Ciao ❤

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  June 22, 2016

  Podcasts

  on writing, Podcasts

• 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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• 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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• Character Profile Sheets

  

  Characterisation is one of the most important aspects of writing a book. It is one of the 9 most important elements of Novel Writing. Whether you are working on a short story or a long-form fiction project, you need characters, and that too strong ones. They are the building blocks of your story because they…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  December 8, 2015

  Writing

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• 5 Keys To Writing 50K Words In 30 Days

  

  To help other writers who are struggling to get those dreaded 50K words done this NaNoWriMo, I’ve come up with 5 keys that are the most important factors for cracking NaNoWriMo and even to write a good amount of words daily even after NaNo.

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  October 28, 2015

  Writing

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• Converting Files to E-Books

  

  I know firsthand how irritating it can be after you’ve finished your MS and you don’t know how to convert it into a readable e-book format. It is really annoying to not be able to read your precious book on your e-reader after all the handwork you’ve put in it. After months (or years) of…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  October 11, 2015

  Writing

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