I’m back after more than a month. Much water has flowed…okay chuck that! Grrr…what did I want to say? Oh well…I don’t know. I most definitely wanted to say something but it escapes me now…
Oh yeah! Here goes.
Before we begin, the previous para is a very substandard illustration of a fancy technique of [...]
A brash intro of sorts
Technical Writing is largely a thankless job. Nobody really reads the document that you took six months to write but when they read, the results can sometimes be as devastating as the loss of your job because of all things, they had to look at that sentence on page 243, which [...]
This was published in the August-September issue of the STC India chapter’s newsletter, Indus. Comments and criticism welcome, as always.
Keeping the Past Alive is Rewarding
Have you ever-even for just one second-paused to actually trace the origins of the words-any word-you use in your writing or speaking life? Try it. It’s fun, instructive, and interesting.
If the [...]
Written after a longish hiatus from blogging. Comments & criticism welcome as always.
Rebirth
Inside, the swirling wind swishes continuously
swooshing over my shut stony tomb
not powerful to slide its slab though
stiff enough to arouse the stirrings
of disturbance inside the confined hole.
Dark and bottomless, but I can’t see–
I’m stirring and trying to turn,
I wind my neck tight and [...]
Kris inspired this post with her musings on doing UX in an Agile environment. Echoing her concerns, here are some lessons I learned working as a writer in that setup. Agile emphasizes on minimal planning and doing things at short intervals or iterations. In a way, every iteration has a specific, measurable goal, which is [...]
I’m not a great admirer of T.S Eliot’s poetry. It doesn’t mean I dislike it. If the much-touted Wasteland supposedly showcases his talent at its pinnacle, I must say it is not quite a talent at all. I like his Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock much better in comparison. Here’s the thing: if the [...]
My good friend, Vittal wrote a short one in response to my earlier poem. His poem concludes with
Your poem, sir, is murky as the tide…
I think I understand it
But the answer eludes me.
Whether he had it in his mind when he wrote these lines I don’t know, but his last line compelled me to paste [...]
Or Minimalism Revisited. Here, in the words of the cult-setting, trend-changing, style-altering, and language-redefining master of prose:
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly [...]
Discovered a great blog that documents “How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days.” It’s got some of my favourites: Hemingway, Saul Bellow, and Kafka.
And don’t miss Benjamin Franklin’s diary.
I’m going to bookmark this blog and add it to my blog roll.
Tags: Artists, Blog roll, Diary, Journal, Routine of Creative People, Writers
As a technical writer, I have progressively been led to, hand-held, encouraged, and brainwashed to believe in the Style Guide as the Holy Grail. I was told that periodic sippings from the Grail was both the cure for all my writing ills and the perfect diet to improve my writing health.