I’m toying with the idea of crafting a new prologue for my book, and have written one as a possible. I’m interested in knowing what you think of it in terms of it doing what an opening page should do. Continue reading
Before I even started writing my book, I had a title. I jotted it down in the front cover of a red-cloth notebook that I’d picked up in Old Delhi. It was the first of five notebooks to come during Continue reading
I’m under a lot of stress lately, and it’s messing with my ability to concentrate on my writing projects. The stress was unavoidable, since my life was turned upside down and over in the past few weeks. First, I quit Continue reading
I don’t know how to write a book, even though that is exactly what I’m doing. I wasn’t trained to write books as an undergraduate in journalism school, but rather to write news and feature articles. The only things those Continue reading
I went to India without a job or friends or connections. I went because I’d been living in the Czech Republic for nearly a year, working as a feature writer and editor for the Prague Post and had grown tired Continue reading
When I write query and business letters, I have a habit of leaving off the “r” in “your”. So instead of writing “Thank you very much for your interest” it comes out “Thank you very much for you interest”; a Continue reading
Women may have been riding their own motorcycles since the inception of the motorized bike, but they have never really belonged to the boys club as “riders”, rather they are most often been historically relegated to the back seat––despite their Continue reading
Paharganj is the landing site of most travelers to New Delhi, India. A strip of low-end hotels and guest houses butted up next to each other along a narrow lane that empties out just west of the New Delhi railway Continue reading
I do a lot of looking around on the Internet for sources of good information concerning writing. Much of what I find turns out to be not what I’m seeking, since I’m pretty particular how I spend my time on Continue reading
These are some scary words, at least for me, because for as long as I’ve been working on my book I’ve wrestled with what to call the section I’ve put at the front of my book, the bit that begins Continue reading
