Category Archives: Thoughts

Prompt Sunday: Writer’s Block

I know this is not a Sunday, but this post has been long overdue. Hence when I finally wrote it, I couldn’t wait till Sunday to share it. Prompt : List down all the cliches you can think of. Now choose one amongst them that strikes your fancy. Write a poem about that cliche- it canContinue reading “Prompt Sunday: Writer’s Block”

Of Bugs and Existence

As I delve in and out of pages of Murakami’s 1Q84 on an unbelievably hot October Sunday afternoon, something outside my window catches my attention. Back in Kolkata, it used to be crows and sparrows flying about looking for food and shade. Here in the outskirts of Gandhinagar, it is swans. An occasional peacock hasContinue reading “Of Bugs and Existence”

Prompt Sunday #5: The Scarecrow

The Prompt: Choose a poem you like. Any poem. Take the last line and use it as the first line for a new poem. The poem that I have used here is “The Daffodils” by William Wordsworth. THE SCARECROW And dances with the Daffodils. The scarecrow as joy it kills, To incite fear in creatures winged,Continue reading “Prompt Sunday #5: The Scarecrow”

Prompt Sunday #4: Cinderella: An Alternate Ending

This weeks’s prompt: Write an alternate ending to the popular fairy tale, Cinderella, in which the glass slipper accidentally fits one of the two stepsisters. Make it a comedy, tragedy, satire, horror, or whatever you wish. Start your story from that very scene.                        Continue reading “Prompt Sunday #4: Cinderella: An Alternate Ending”

Prompt Sunday #3 :The Words and What I see in them

Prompt for this week: Take any dictionary. Randomly pick any 10 words from the dictionary. Do not look at the meanings. Write these words down on a piece of paper, and then write how each word makes you feel, and what according to you should these words mean. Be creative and have fun Since thisContinue reading “Prompt Sunday #3 :The Words and What I see in them”

Prompt Sunday#2: The Picture of the Asbestos Sheet

The Prompt: Open the first folder on your PC containing pictures (personal ones, not wallpapers), choose the 15th picture from that folder (count however you want to). Now, for 2-3 minutes look at the picture. After that for 10 minutes write whatever comes to your mind about that picture and how it makes you feel. Don’tContinue reading “Prompt Sunday#2: The Picture of the Asbestos Sheet”

Prompt Sunday#1: The Masks

The prompt for this week:  Close your eyes and think of one particular object in the room you are in. Think about it for a couple of minutes, open your eyes, and write about it without looking at it The Masks Sunday 11:30am I moved into the new apartment today. Finally, after a hectic day ofContinue reading “Prompt Sunday#1: The Masks”

Hometown Diaries #2: The Void

For all of us, there have been moments when we can’t resist the urge to run away from the mad world that surrounds us. We wish to leave all the competition, all the rush, all the hurry behind and be someplace where those things are not only immaterial, they don’t even exist if you don’tContinue reading “Hometown Diaries #2: The Void”