Tag: #writing

• Book Review 04/50: This Is How We Grow: Stories and Poems for Perspective taking

  

  ‘This is how we grow’ is a non-fiction collection of stories written by several authors. I was curious about the book after having read several reviews on it. I wondered what it could tell me that I didn’t already know. As I know some of the authors, I began by reading their stories first. The…

  Smitha V

  February 5, 2024

  Book Review

  #advice, #blogging, #bookreview, #books, #caregiver, #empathy, #growth, #inspiration, #lifeskills, #non-fiction, #perspectivetaking, #reader, #reading, #resilience, #writing, Book Review, writing

• 2023: Part 2 &3 – Year in review- ups and downs, lessons learnt

  

  I was supposed to write this post on the 31st of December but I couldn’t as I was traveling. It was an unplanned trip but the most fulfilling. I was in my hometown, Mangalore, 18 years after my mom’s death, on her death anniversary. And although, I do go to the temple and make an…

  Smitha V

  January 9, 2024

  Experiences

  #birthday, #books, #fiction, #grateful, #life, #people, #plans, #readers, #reading, #upanddowns, #writing, #yearinreview, book-reviews, writing

• SoCS : I won! Not once, but twice, today. In conversation with Dan Antion

  

  I’m participating in Linda G Hills SoCs (Stream of Consciousness Saturday) challenge. The prompt for today is ‘one/won’. The challenge requires that we go with the flow to write a post on the prompt without editing or giving it prior thought. Today’s prompt came easy. When I opened my WordPress to begin writing for the…

  Smitha V

  July 29, 2023

  Experiences, Photography, Poetry

  #blog, #Cominghome, #interview, #life, #nature, #promptwriting, #SoCs, #streamofconsciousnesssaturday, #truth, #writing

• Where have the words gone?

  

  Is it possible to lose the art of writing after one book, a few poems and some blog posts? Or do I have just one book in me? I had the fortune of visiting one of the most beautiful countries in the world, Norway, in June, and yet, my mind is like an infertile land…

  Smitha V

  July 4, 2023

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #content, #gratitude, #home, #life, #novel, #pause, #reading, #Streamofconsciousness, #truth, #writers’block, #writing

• If I couldn’t write, what would I do?

  

  This post is for Alex Cavanaugh’s Insecure Writers Support Group (click the link for details on what that means and how to join. You will also find a list of bloggers signed up to the challenge that are worth checking out. The first Wednesday of every month, we all post our thoughts, fears or words…

  Smitha V

  June 8, 2023

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #ifnotwriting, #IWSG, #keepsmegoing, #life, #me, #survival, #truth, #WhyIwrite, #writing