What Is My Creative Routine
September 6, 2024
A simple question sparking a deeper reflection … More What Is My Creative Routine
Category: Musings & Essays
Authenticity Over Consistency #FictionMonday
May 13, 2024
Consistency. This word has been haunting me for the past few years consistently. Consistency is regarded as the key in the creative world, whether it’s a writer updating their blog, an Instagrammer marketing their business, or a YouTuber trying to build a following. It is absolutely necessary to be consistent in uploading your work, or … More Authenticity Over Consistency #FictionMonday
Echoes Of My Empty Mind #MundaneMonday
May 6, 2024
For the past two days, I’ve found myself staring at the screen, struggling to write. Why do I persist when it feels like there’s nothing worth writing about? And what would I even do if not this? This is what I dread—the vacant expanse of free time, where my mind becomes a barren wasteland. Numbness … More Echoes Of My Empty Mind #MundaneMonday
I Would Like A Cup of Coffee #MundaneMonday
April 1, 2024
This April morning feels strangely cold. I am sitting on my couch, thinking about coffee. I need my coffee, but I don’t want to leave the warmth of my couch to get myself a cup. How wonderful it would be if it prepared itself and gently glided toward me, fitting between my palms, ready to … More I Would Like A Cup of Coffee #MundaneMonday
Impossible #FictionMonday
March 25, 2024
Impossible – not a much-loved word, but one that is often used to keep mankind in line. However, I am not greatly affected by this word or its constraints. In fact, I am always thrilled when I hear it spoken to me. I am simply too stubborn to play along, preferring to prove the other … More Impossible #FictionMonday
An App A Day Clogs The Brain #MundaneMonday
March 18, 2024
Lately, I have been experiencing the scattered brain syndrome a lot. Let me tell the end result wasn’t pretty. Despite having numerous systems to capture my random thoughts, I often forget to input them into any of my systems and end up forgetting things. For instance, I remembered I needed to buy vinegar just now. … More An App A Day Clogs The Brain #MundaneMonday
When You Don’t Know, You Don’t Know! #MundaneMonday
February 20, 2024
Isn’t that the truth? When you don’t know, you simply don’t. Then why pretend otherwise? Do you really believe that you know everything? Isn’t that foolish of you? Nobody knows everything. Not me. Not you, evidently. Yet you insist that you know — not just what others went through and are going through, but even … More When You Don’t Know, You Don’t Know! #MundaneMonday
The Desert Plant #ThursdayTreeLove
February 15, 2024
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” — Alice Walker So is a cactus. I’d never seen a cactus in the first 24 years of my life. Well, in Kerala, where I was born and brought up, I couldn’t even imagine … More The Desert Plant #ThursdayTreeLove
Hiding in the Draft #MundaneMonday
February 12, 2024
It was an accident—stumbling upon my draft folder in Medium. Lucky that I did though, as just last week I had hastily jotted down a piece while I was out, fully intending to publish it later that day. Like most pieces in that particular folder, this one too would’ve been destined to live a life … More Hiding in the Draft #MundaneMonday
The Story Continues #MundaneMonday
February 6, 2024
I tried. All day yesterday, whenever I could sit in front of my laptop, I tried to write. I wrote, too — a couple of stories? prose poems? — I don’t know what to call them. I had a few stunning ideas looming in my head, and I jotted them down. It can’t exactly be … More The Story Continues #MundaneMonday
Beyond Scribbles 