Play Pause is now a full-fledged manuscript and not a flash fiction. What started out as a 100 word short story has today evolved into a 50,000 word novel. The transformation didn’t happen overnight. Here are the chronological changes—from an ultra-sleek short to a standard fiction book. The title of …
Dystopian concept is a piece of literature based on imaginary landscape that reflects extreme deprivation, oppression or terror. This genre has been around for a long time and continues to entertain readers with its distinct settings and equally distinct but gloomy themes. Most of the works are based on a …
Certain stories demand a prologue. These preceding pages are exploited by authors for a bouquet of reasons. While some employ preface to introduce a unique, fictional / actual landscape with complex characters, rituals, divisions and attributes others utilise the idea of foreword to narrate a random incident / accident which …
Assigning human feelings to inanimate objects / nature is an essential ingredient of fiction and non-fiction writing. This attribution is called pathetic fallacy. Metaphor and hyperbole are some of the other important terms frequently exploited in literature. Here is an example ( Pathetic Fallacy ) from my unpublished book “Shadows …
There is more to Iceland than stunning landscape, rich culture, volcanoes, elves and sagas. Iceland is the bastion of written words. No way, many would challenge! Nonetheless, Iceland has more readers, writers and published books per capita than the rest of the world. However, because of its small population which incidentally hovers …
