Atul Yadav

Category: Writing

  • Interesting conversations enhance knowledge

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    Conversations with people, if done appropriately, can be knowledge enhancing endeavours, even if the topic is something you know a lot about. Knowledge resides in our brains in a tacit form, and only a certain part of it becomes explicit when we are exercising the use of the same. Many people wonder how we can…

  • Ring the bells that still can ring

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    Leonard Cohen crooned, rather perfectly:Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in These are the kinds of lines that set you free. Free from the compulsion of producing something perfect. Free from the obligation of creating something that can not be…

  • National Startup Day

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    The honorable Prime Minister has declared the 16th of January as National Startup Day. This is a fascinating development and a piece of excellent news for the Indian startup ecosystem. As a humble contribution from my side, I plan to give the kindle copy of my book, “Reclaim Your Inner Entrepreneur,” free today and tomorrow.…

  • Brothers Sen Gogh is now a bestseller

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    A weekend spike of purchases has taken Brothers Sen Gogh in the bestseller list. Hopefully this lasts. Please grab your copy at the promotional price of INR 49/- or for USD 0.99, only till end of this week.  http://mybook.to/BrothersSenGogh #wip #writingcommunity #writerscafe #newbook #booklaunch #writinglife #amwriting #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrybliss  #optimism #optimistic #songwriting #songwriter…

  • Brothers Sen Gogh – Book Trailer

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    Inspired by the brotherly love of Vincent and Theo Van Gogh, Brothers Sen Gogh ruminates about the pains of a sensitive soul, the inability of society to identify artistic talent and the heartbreaking tragedy of a flawed brotherly relationship. 

  • Announcing my new book – Brothers Sen Gogh

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    Inspired by the brotherly love of Vincent and Theo Van Gogh, Brothers Sen Gogh ruminates about the pains of a sensitive soul, the inability of society to identify artistic talent and the heartbreaking tragedy of a flawed brotherly relationship.  Soubhik Sengupta is an indie musician with emotional fragility.  Sourav Sengupta is an indie music producer…

  • What do you get out of writing fiction?

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    As many people here said, fiction writing can be therapeutic. The process is painful and takes you through a journey that you can not imagine at the beginning. You start with the intention of designing a world, designing characters and a plot but eventually find that you are a vehicle for the characters to come…

  • Stephen King – On writing

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    The toolbox for writing Vocabulary is the core tool and you build it by reading. Do not search for words just to use them in your writing. You will feel fake. Use the word that comes to your mind. Grammar is the second most important after vocabulary. He recommends Warriner’s English Grammar and composition. He…

  • My Writing Process

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    (Posted on quora for the question asking about the writing process of authors) I will just add my writing process and experience to the many answers below. When I went through these answers, many were surprisingly similar to what I do and I guess what many writers do. Not very surprising though, this is diametrically…

  • Not that and not this

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    Yesterday, in an interview, Win Butler was asked a question about his songwriting process. Interesting he referred to “Negative Theology” while answering that. The interviewer was hinting at becoming monotonous while writing newer songs and Win thought that being monotonous would be the last thing they would be. According to him, every song is unique…