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Varsha Seshan

Writer’s Discipline

posted on April 29, 2020

Yes, I know today's post ought to be about World Dance Day, but somehow things don't work that way. I've finished working on projects that have been works-in-progress for a while. I need to set them aside and do something new. That's how I work. I have spreadsheets of when to look at work again and start the rewriting process. As I said to my sister just yesterday, I'm a terrible writer. But I'm a good rewriter, which is what makes my writing passable. And yes, sometimes I write 12 and 13 drafts of the same story before I'm remotely satisfied, so perhaps I'm a good rererererewriter.But now, it's time to write, not rewrite. And I postpone it. Of course I postpone it.Since the beginning of the lockdown, I've been at my parents' place and so, today, because I had to start something new, I decided to look through my cupboard to postpone writing just a little longer. And my younger … [Read more...]

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