Marginalia: The Ten Phases of Writing a Short Story

Updated 6 Years Ago

Having written and published 20+ short stories since 2016, I can say, with absolute conviction, that there is no single, universal process to how a short story comes together. […] So, while I…

Published: Short Stories: Later-life Relationships (popmatters)

Published: Short Stories: Journeys (popmatters)

Published: Book Review Of ‘waiting’ By Nighat Gandhi (scroll.in)

Published: Speculation And Responsibility In ‘a People’s Future Of The United States’ (popmatters)

Published: Short Stories: Animals Part Ii (popmatters)

Published: #balanceforbetter: A Short Reading List For International Women’s Day 2019 (scroll.in)

Published: ‘all The Lives We Ever Lived’ Finds Comfort In Mourning With Virginia Woolf (popmatters)

Marginalia: Jaipur Literary Festival 2019

Published: Short Stories: Animals (popmatters)

Published: Bringing Forth The Male Gaze In ‘preeto And Other Stories’ (popmatters)

Published: Short Stories: Women In The Workplace

Podcast: New 2019 Project (preliminary Details)

2019 Word Of The Year: Trust

2018: A Year In Writing

Published: Emerging As A Writer - After 40 (longreads)

Published: #metooindia: How Can Literature (and Publishers) Respond To The Problems Of Gender And Power? (scroll.in)

Marginalia: Journal Prompts (december)

Published: Short Stories: Parties (popmatters)

Published: Why India Needs A Professional Writers And Translators Organization (scroll.in)

Published: 20 Debut Works Of Fiction By Women Over 40 (literary Hub)

Published: But Let Us Cultivate Our Garden (the Millions)

Published: ‘half Gods’ And Painful Fragments (popmatters)

Marginalia: Journal Prompts (november)

Published: Short Stories: American Writers Of South Asian Origin (popmatters)

Published: On Sound And Rhythm In Text: Angela Leighton’s ‘hearing Things’ (popmatters)

Marginalia: Journal Prompts (october)

Published: Short Stories: Characters In Politics (popmatters)

Published: On Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters On Loss: ‘the Dark Interval’ (popmatters)

Published: Interview At Literary Hub, Book Marks: Secrets Of The Book Critics Series

Published: A. M. Homes’ ‘days Of Awe’ And The Art Of Writing Dialogue (popmatters)

Marginalia: Journal Prompts (september)

Published: The Great Indian Novel (scroll.in)

Published: Short Stories: Women In Translation (popmatters)

Published: ‘alone Time’ And The Joys Of Solitary, Mindful Travel (popmatters)

Marginalia: Journal Prompts (august)

Published: On Roxane Gay’s Republished Short Stories ‘ayiti’ (popmatters)

Published: Nowhere Is A Place In Tatyana Tolstaya’s ‘aetherial Worlds’ (popmatters)

Published: Short Stories: Refugees (popmatters)

Marginalia: Journal Prompts (july)

Published: We Go To William Trevor’s Works To Look For Ourselves And To Understand Others (popmatters)

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Marginalia: The Ten Phases of Writing a Short Story

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