Mindfulness is a meditative practice that has its roots in Eastern traditions and involves creating self-awareness. You can practice mindfulness by focusing your attention on your respiration. You observe your breathing going in and out. As you do, your mind will begin to wonder and you will have certain thoughts and experience emotions. When this happens, with mindfulness, you … [Read more...] about How Mindfulness Can Help Your Writing
eBooks in India
Hiroshi Mikitani Plans to Make e-Books Available on Viber
The popularity of the mediums by which e-Books are delivered to readers really does seem to vary across the world, and is constantly changing, driven by consumer behaviour. In the West, in countries such as the United States, e-book readers and tablets seem to be the most popular. For example, Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted a survey in January … [Read more...] about Hiroshi Mikitani Plans to Make e-Books Available on Viber
A Tribute to Khushwant Singh
On March 20th 2014, India lost Khushwant Singh, a legendary writer and journalist who passed away in New Delhi at the grand age of 99. In this article we take a look at the life of one of the world’s most well-known satirists. Read on to find out more. Early Beginnings 1915 was the year Khushwant Singh was born in Hadali, a town which is now in Baluchistan, Pakistan. He was … [Read more...] about A Tribute to Khushwant Singh
Flipkart Increases its E-Books Collection through Partnership with Publish on Demand Global
After having partnered up with Smashwords last year to distribute e-Book titles to the Indian market, Flipkart, India’s largest online retailer, has now formed a coalition with Publish on Demand Global (PODG). Flipkart will distribute PODG’s digital content, making it available on any e-reader available on Android, Apple and Windows 8 devices. This certainly does look like a … [Read more...] about Flipkart Increases its E-Books Collection through Partnership with Publish on Demand Global
5 Ways to Write Better Flash Fiction
As a writer you must have had brilliant ideas that you were not able to convert to a full-fledged story. But after all, who defines what the right length of a story should be. You can always go ahead and create Flash Fiction from such ideas. Flash Fiction is a concise style of storytelling, where the length could be anywhere between 300 to 2000 words. You can choose any … [Read more...] about 5 Ways to Write Better Flash Fiction