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Category Archives: Link Wanderlust

June 20, 2019
by Neelima
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The Teller and the Tale @ Link Wanderlust

Found this speech by the late Girish Karnad, theater colossus– the First A.K. Ramanujan Memorial Lecture. He speaks about the litterateur and translator AK Ramanujan himself. “He was among the first of Indian thinkers to take a serious look at … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: AK Ramanujan, ethnography, girish karnad, Indian folklore, translation | Permalink

June 13, 2019
by Neelima
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Writing Workshops @ Link Wanderlust

Creative writing workshops can be strenuous for writers. Imagine sitting in a closed room with your work being put out there for display. You could clamp down shut, get nervous or lose your train of thought. We are told that … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: writing workshop | Permalink

May 30, 2019
by Neelima
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Writing Shapes @ Link Wanderlust

Everything that you write has a structure, a shape. Just like a house can elegantly capture the light and become an expression of the architect’s personality, a book also follows certain patterns. Jane Alison believes that writing has a visual … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: Aristotle, narrative arc, W.G. Sebald | Permalink

May 16, 2019
by Neelima
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Once upon AI @ Link Wanderlust

Open AI made headlines when they announced that AI was too dangerous to release in the wild. AI is a potential intelligence threat and as far as novelists are concerned, they may just put the writer out of business. How … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: AI, droids, GPT2, robot authors | Permalink

May 2, 2019
by Neelima
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Literary Pilgrimages @ Link Wanderlust

If you are a confirmed Janeite or a fan of Jame Austen’s most famous work Pride and Prejudice, you would enjoy a literary pilgrimage to the eighteenth-century house where she lived and wrote. Of interest is the walnut table, which … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: literary pilgrimages | Permalink

April 18, 2019
by Neelima
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Pearls and their Dark Origins @ Link Wanderlust

One of the most fascinating fairytales I’ve read is The Ugly Duckling, a tale of transformation.  In The Ugly History of Beautiful Things, Katy Kelleher talks about another kind of ugly thing: a pearl whose birth is from a rather unattractive … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: pearl | Permalink

April 4, 2019
by Neelima
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Writing on Screen @ Link Wanderlust

Do we write differently on screen? The question is an interesting one and one many of us have asked ourselves. I have noticed that I used to be far more thoughtful when I wrote with a pen but now since … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: communication, Social media, writing on screen | Permalink

March 21, 2019
by Neelima
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The Knots of Language @ Link Wanderlust

Richard Seymour talks about the origins of the meaning of language and goes into great depth about how civilization perceives meaning from text. The essay is thorough and well-thought out. It may take two or three readings to get to … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: language, Marx, Orwell, semantics | Permalink

March 7, 2019
by Neelima
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Speaking Smart @ Link Wanderlust

How many of you are terrified of public speaking? Turns out that this is more the norm than the exception. Public speaking merited a great deal of attention even back in Cicero’s time. If you know how to speak confidently, … Continue reading →

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February 21, 2019
by Neelima
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Small Presses and Prizes @ Link Wanderlust

There are lots of lessons to learn from publication, especially if a book has been inside your body for years and then one day sees the light of day. It is a birth. Paul Harding took five years to write … Continue reading →

Categories: Link Wanderlust | Tags: Pulitzer prize, small press | Permalink

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