“Terrorists trying hard to infiltrate into J&K: Army
Army has noted terrorists have made many attempts to infiltrate into India along the international border in J&K, Northern Command chief, Lt Gen BS Jaswal said.”Page 9 -DNA Daily News & Analysis- Bangalore, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 Continue reading “Nothing Has Changed”
Author: Prem Rao
Author, Blogger, Book Reviewer, Coach, and Podcaster
If you thought writing your book was tough, you don’t know what editing can be like! It’s tough too- because there is always so much scope for improvement in our writing. Editing helps make our writing more interesting- and readable! Continue reading “Editing Your Book”
” But I don’t want to go among mad people” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that” said the Cat “We’re all mad here. I am mad. You’re mad”
“How do you know I am mad?” asked Alice
“You must be” said the Cat “otherwise you wouldn’t have come here”
Lewis Carroll – Alice In Wonderland- 1865
Let me invite you to my blog dedicated to my first novel called IT CAN’T BE YOU.
I am thrilled that my first novel is complete. It’s roots go back to November 2009 when I wrote the first 50,000 words for the National Novel Writing Month popularly called NaNoWriMo.
When Colonel Belliappa, Indian Army (Retd), a highly decorated war hero is found dying one night frothing at the mouth in anguish, there is no one else at home. Other than his immediate family. His wife, his daughter and his son. Did he – who killed so many -kill himself or was he killed?
His death sets the clock back to his life as a career officer in the Indian Army. He fights with great valor in the 1971 war against Pakistan which leaves him physically and psychologically scarred for life. His aggression, maniacal bravery and being dispensable leads to a secret assignment. Being handpicked to command a crack team of Indian Army snipers as an irregular force to fight intruders and militants in the Kashmir Valley in 1989 . Years later, he is now a successful armaments dealer.
In the last months before his death, the Colonel finds himself in a series of conflicts with his family. Standing to gain from his death, unknown to each other, they plan to kill him separately. Does the Colonel pay the ultimate price for the spiral of vengeance he himself triggered some decades ago?
It’s a psychological thriller about an Indian Army officer and his family caught in the throes of war and conflict culminating in a spiral of vengeance.
Take pleasure in pointing you to some good tips on improving your writing . Today’s comes from Janice Hardy’s blog The Other Side of the Story. She writes of a tendency to repeat ourselves. I must say that, although inadvertently I am sure, we often underestimate the intelligence of our readers by stressing the obvious.
Every writer dreams of becoming a best-selling author. We know of course that very few attain this status! Who do you think was on the top of the pile of best-selling authors last year? How well did your favourite author do and how much of the big bucks did he/she make? Continue reading “Best Selling Authors”
Is it necessary that you should write short stories before embarking on a novel? Must you have adequate practice in the skills of writing before you begin that magnum opus you were always dreaming about? Like many I started off by writing short stories. They took less time and could be completed fairly swiftly. Frankly, they were easier to write. Continue reading “Short Stories or Novels?”
I have written elsewhere about NaNoWriMo– the National Novel Writing Month- a competition in which you aim to write a novel of at least 50,000 words during the calendar month of November. I took part for the first time last year. By end November 2009, I achieved the objective and had hammered out a novel of 50,127 words. I called it “It Can’t Be You”. Continue reading “My First Novel”
Prem Rao : Stories from a Story Teller 