Best Writing Advice: Embrace Your Craft Completely

writing in your diary

By Sujana Vangala For years, I lived in a space of hesitancy, in Plan B’s and safety nets. In the same way, my writing survived in sidewalk cracks because I refused to give the sapling a proper pot. Writing was my hobby – something stuck between homework sheets, a page in my Notes app, a […]

Best Writing Advice: Aim for Rejections

coping with rejection as a writer

By Dorotea Saputo The best writing advice I’ve ever received came from my grandfather who bragged about never having read a book in his life. He was smoking his pipe, sitting on the back porch. I was staring at the sky through the weeping willow when he cleared his throat and said: ‘Aim for rejections, […]

How to Stick to Your Story

how to stick to writing your story

By Triyasha De ‘The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.’                       ~ Jane Austen ‘Maybe “okay” will be our “always”.’                       ~ John Green ‘It was […]