Saturday, September 13, 2008

Serial Bomb Blasts in Delhi

5 Serial Bomb Blasts in Delhi; one of them 500 meters away from an Auditorium where I was watching a musical program performed by children associated with an NGO - Nritya Sangeet Natraj Kala Kendra.

I walked out and saw ambulances racing by. Decided to drive back home, and heard news of live bombs being diffused, 20 people getting killed, 90 injured....

So, that is what we have...a few people whose job, business and career is to plant bombs! Is it insanity? Do you think you and I are any better? Insanely, we rush through our lives, while these guys hold everyone at ransom....If we think that THEY are bad, them how has OUR BEING GOOD made situation any better?

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Wanna be a writer?

How to be a prolific writer?

Leo Babauta, shares in Learn from the Greats: 7 Writing Habits of Amazing Writers:

Stephen King is most prolific -writing 10 pages a day. Ernest Hemingway competes with 500 words a day.

Hard working writers are Vladimir Nabokov & Philip Roth.

Vladimir Nabokov wrote standing up, and all on index cards (to re-arrange later). Philip Roth works standing up, pacing around as he thinks and writes in an isolated studio.

Hardly working Truman Capote wrote lying down, in bed or on a couch.

James Joyce displays amazing freedom - A friend asked him if he’d had a good day writing. Yes, Joyce replied happily. How much had he written? Three sentences, Joyce told him.

My vote goes to James Joyce, though Truman Capote is close!

What would you vote for?