Things you don't need to write a great novel:

❌A fancy creative writing degree
❌The perfect location
❌The perfect time in your life

Things you do need to write a great novel:

✅A huge amount of self-belief
✅A huge amount of self-doubt
✅A great story

Looking for smart, sharp tech writers to write on tech trends, gadgets beyond phones& laptops, AI, productivity, society/culture X technology stories. Please DM and RT!

This is my 4 year journey of  harassment, emotional and physical abuse, in the hands of my estranged husband. The journey is documented in a reverse chronological manner. Attached image here gives a summary of all the FIRs. #DomesticViolence #CyberViolence

Someone with the power to commission/platform (I can't anymore), please pick up this story. Please RT #Triggerwarning

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find some time to read a few pages from a book today. it's #worldbookday after all.

behen, bas kar

Hey everyone! I know this is random but here are some ways(that helped me) to tackle depression and yesterday my psychiatrist approved most of them and modified some of these. I have found these ways personally working for me.
(A thread)

The brilliant Sayaka Murata speaking up for Palestine 🇵🇸

I wrote an essay for Bungei.

I wrote about Adania Shibli, what I felt at the Frankfurt Book Fair and how I feel now.

I hope for a world where lives are not taken.
I want a world where words are not taken away.
I sincerely hope for a world without all wars and all genocide.

発売中の「文藝」の特集にエッセイを書きました。

作家のAdania Shibliさんのこと、フランクフルトブックフェアで感じたことを文章にしました。

命が奪われない世界を望みます。
言葉が奪われない世界を望みます。
全ての戦争と全ての虐殺のない世界を心から望みます。

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All meetings should happen at 11am. This is the best and only time for a meeting. Anything before that is unreasonable, too early. Then it's lunch. Between 2 and 4 is just a lull. After 5 it's offensive.

This must be declared a Bengali holiday.

i don’t know what’s worse. productive days and nights or productive days and nights causing a level of exhaustion that makes you want to kill yourself.

Maybe read this before you watch Chamkila.

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learn to be done with people. not mad, not bothered. just done.

knowing the difference between who to cut off and who to be patience with>>> is everything.

why are people proud Swifties is something I’ll never get / also don’t want to

So many fantastic books are impossible to find because it’s not worth the publishers’ while to print more copies. There’s something so wrong with a system that won’t let great books be read.