#BOOKREVIEW #16CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK REVIEW AS A WRITER AND A READER Title: The Most Magnificent ThingAuthor & Illustrator: Ashley SpiresGenre: Fiction, Children’s Picture BookTarget Reader: 6-8 years The book The Most Magnificent Thing has MAGNIFICENT illustrations and story. It provides life lessons to children to not give up easily, that trying new things is fun,…
I learned life’s bitter truths quite late. Don’t let people walk all over you, my mom kept telling me. After her death, I had no one to talk to. Once, I confided in a colleague about my boss continuously assigning me work. I had to stay long hours in office to finish my work and I…
Vandana Sehgal Author, Founder – A New You Key to any successful writing is to maintain a cohesive narrative that keeps readers engaged and connected. Fiction, nonfiction, or a mix of two works perfectly as long as readers relate to the characters and get engrossed in the story. Mixing fiction with nonfiction can create a…
Smeetha Bhoumik Guest blogger #loveofwriting She remembers it as a large airy room with ample sunlight splashing the pearl-white walls with gold, the windows covered with flower laden trellises. Looking in from the future after so many seasons of rain and shine, birth and death, it appears like a gently bobbing assemblage of artefacts, notions,…
Being a woman, I am already representing the first half of humanity living in my own ecosystem glad to be a female celebrating the difference – with my experiences, histories, myths, needs, social constructs and patterns. Being a woman in India is an irony and a paradox as a writer. It is a raw celebration…
Chandrika R Krishnan Guest Blogger From time immemorial, left-brained people are considered logical, analytical, and methodical, while right-brained people are supposed to be creative, disorganized, and artistic. Though this theory has been refuted the stereotypes continue and people still view creative people as illogical, emotional, and women! Our education system too gives more weightage to the…