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October 28, 2008 / / 0 Comments

Diwali

Diwali, or the festival of lights, is celebrated all across India with great fervour and enthusiasm. India is a country with great diversity. There are many religions, many cultures, many languages and many regions. Yet, there is a unifying thread that runs across the nation and binds it together.

Festivals like Diwali add strength to this thread. It is one of the very few festivals that is celebrated all over the country regardless of caste, culture, creed or religion. Sweets are exchanged among people and lamps are lit up to chase the darkness away, and spread light.

To complete the festivities, firecrackers are burst late into the night. For children, firecrackers are the most important part of Diwali, with the sweets coming in a close second.

This year Diwali falls on Tuesday, October 28 (the day of writing this post).

I wish everyone a very happy and a safe Diwali.

NaNoWriMo2008

October 19, 2008 / / 6 Comments

NaNoWriMo2008It doesn’t seem like an year has passed, but it has. And to remind of that NaNoWriMo 2008 is here. I have been participating in the NaNoWriMo for the last two years. I was able to complete the 50,000 words limit in 2006, but in 2007 I failed to achieve that mile stone.

This year I am going to participate again.

I am not very sure if I am going to win or not, but I want to participate. The reason is that participating in NaNo helps me organise my thoughts into a coherent whole. As some of you might know, I am writing on a couple of blogs and an e-magazine. Writing blog posts and feature articles is good, but there is something about the idea of writing a complete novel that is very fascinating, and that attracts me to NaNo every year.

Till now, I have no clear idea about what I am going to write. But there are a few days for NaNo to begin, and I hope by that time I have come up with something concrete.

Are you doing NaNo this year?

Follow me…if you can!

October 11, 2008 / / 0 Comments

I am sure by now most bloggers are not only aware of what Twitter is, but are also using it to the utmost. I have been a member of twitter for quite some time now, but for some reason I had been very sceptic about the site; to some extent, I still am.

I have no doubt that sites like twitter are very good for social networking and for staying in touch with friends. But, at the same time, one must be careful when one uses these sites. The main thing to remember is that these are a means to an end, and not an end in themselves.

As a blogger, one can often fall in the trap of believing that if one is a successful social networker, one will automatically become a successful blogger. In this belief, the blogger will spend more time and effort in social networking and less time on actually blogging.  And when he doesn’t get the desired result, he is disappointed.

This is one of the reasons I have been staying away from social networking sites for the past some time. But, recently I decided to check out Twitter once again, and I  liked it because it is a no frill site, and hence it does not take up a lot of time.  So, I decided to try and use Twitter for a few days, and see how it goes.

If you want, you can follow me on Twitter! (I have also added the “What are you doing” widget to the sidebar)

Are You Losing Blogging Steam?

September 14, 2008 / / 2 Comments

It has been more than a month since I have updated this blog. This is not good as this was definitely not what I had wanted for this blog. Of course, I always knew that I would never be like many other bloggers, who make it a point to blog atleast once every day. Yet, I had also not thought that things would come to such a pass that I would not have a posted in over a month.

Something tells me that I am not the only one who is in a position like this. I see many blogs on the Internet that start off very well, but begin to lose steam in a while, and are eventually given up. Why is it that many bloggers find it easy to keep blogging over a period of time, while others find it very difficult to continue beyond the first few months?

I am sure there are many answers to the question, and I would love to hear what you have to say on the subject.

But, based on my own experineces, I feel that one of the answers to the question is : Organization!

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Who knew?

August 5, 2008 / / 3 Comments

The last month was supposed to be a month of hectic blog advertising, campaigning and contests.  As planned, the month started on the right note with a 6000 Entrecard credits contest and an advertising space contest. But from then on, it didn’t go as planned, to say the least.

I could give many reasons as to why I could not proceed as per my original intentions. But then I am reminded of this line :

“One who wants to do something will find a way, one who doesn’t will find an excuse.”

Since, I don’t want to be the one to find excuses, I will move on…

Though the last month didn’t go as planned, a contest was still held. If the contest was held, a winner must necessarily be chosen. So, using the site random.org, a winner for the 6000 EC credits has been picked.

And the winner is Justin from Finish Writing.

Congratulations to you!

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