Posts Tagged ‘Writing’

Have Started Posting the Novel

08Jan09

Have been working on this experimental on-line serialized novel for a couple of years. It’s mostly complete. Made a blog for it last year but editing the draft has proved really time consuming. I’m still doing it. So in order to get this completed-part of the delay is a lack of discipline on my part [...]


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English Needs a Generic 3rd Person Pronoun-A Reason to Learn Hindi

07Jul08

Sometimes when one is writing there are awkward phrases that beg for a simple solution. One of these situations involves pronouns. He/She/It is not always something one wants to place into a sentence and alternating between genders in a paragraph or chapter is confusing for the reader. But to exclude one gender can get certain [...]


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Bad Books

05Jul08

Why are there so many crappy books being published? I am tired of all the mediocre writing being churned out of these college classes that ends up on the bookstore shelves. Haven’t they heard of editors? I’m not talking the pulpy fiction stuff but things purported to be literature. And I am talking big publishers [...]


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