Nasreen Akhtar

Posts Tagged ‘Writers’

Ding dong to the art of blogging!

In Society, Writers & Writing on April 17, 2009 at 1:25 am

As with anything when you first start out, it can be daunting.

Blogging had this effect on me once upon a time. I don’t know why because used to write on the web once upon a long ago and I remember really loving it. But this? .. This was the world of ‘blogging’, a different kettle of fish altogether. (Do fish even like kettles??)

Someone I know recently started a blog too , she is young and she says that writing her thoughts down is helping her discover a new self. Which it will, that is one of the marvels of the pen… 

I am often asked about advice for being a writer and I always say that if you see yourself as a writer, then you are one. Every one has the potential to write and produce something fantastic (the blogs that have linked are testament to this grace a la alphainventions & condron.us which are the cyber equivalent to the best thing since sliced bread) – I have been going over so many featured on these great site and I think they are wonderful! There is so much creativity in this world, human beings are such fascinating creatures! And why shouldn’t they be, after all all goes back to a Marvellous Creator. :)

(A huge thank you to you the readers. A writer is nothing without the time and embrace of the reader. Thank you for the honour.)

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Writers are grumpy people …?

In Life, Writers & Writing on April 11, 2009 at 9:35 pm

A few weeks ago,  news was just in that Colombian literary giant and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia-Marquez had declared to the world that he would never write again.

Days ago, it was revealed that he would write but not publish. El Tiempo, the Colombian newspaper which reported this also went onto say that Garcia-Marquez had become so grumpy that he told the reporter to leave him alone as he had writing to be getting on with.

So as well as being potentially disturbed, are writers also grumpy people??

* my one penny comes to mind. oh blast!

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