T hey say, you can never plan the future by the past. And when I look back, it makes sense to me. There I was, sitting in my counsellor’s room, during my summer vacation – when I was supposed to be a bird set free from cage, though momentarily – with a mind choked by the vexing tentacles of OCD: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, thoughts which are beyond one’s control. It consumed all the productivity left in me. ‘Read a book,’ she said, ‘You need to relax your mind.’ To be frank, neither of us knew, a simple solution as such would make me an author 4 years from then. By this post, I want to strip off from your mind a few of the common myths about becoming a writer – a published one – to enable you to live your dream. #1 YOU NEED TO READ A LOT BEFORE YOU WRITE: Reading and writing are two different processes. Let me define these two actions in a sentence for clarity. Reading is a way of downloading data into your brain. Writing, on the other hand, is a way of uploading d...
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