Tag: #mydiary

• Mumbai Diaries: Scattered Thoughts

  

  I’m feeling a little stuck. While I continue to write and share my writing with the world, I’m not sure what next? I’m not sure where do I go from here? I’m feeling a little swamped. Maybe more than a little. The weather has nothing to do with how I feel. I’ve never been one […]

  Smitha V

  September 9, 2019

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #adjusting, #conversations, #creativewriting, #diary, #experiences, #inspiration, #life, #mumbai, #mumbaidiaries, #Mumbairoads, #mydiary, #retirement, #self-doubt, #selftalk, #stayathomemom, #trafficfinesinMumbai, #truth, #whatnext, #work, #writer’s doubt, #writers’block, #writing, change, Creative Writing, Experiences, My diary

• GTG, ROFL, NVM, OFC, YOLO, SMH – Is English Dying?

  

  I call myself a writer. I mean that’s what I’d like to believe I am for reasons more than one – a) I no longer have a full-time job that I can tell people of when they ask me what do I do, b) because I have been diligently writing a blog since 2016 and  […]

  Smitha V

  July 27, 2019

  Creative Writing, Experiences, Management

  #breakingbarriers, #changingtimes, #corporateenglish, #diary, #emojis, #Englishisdying, #experiences, #generationgap, #life, #mydiary, #myfeelings, #opinion, #relationshipbuilding, #savingenglish, #slangs, #todayslingo, #truth, Creative Writing, Experiences, My diary

• Saving the ‘writer’ in me

  

  It’s been ages since I have written. Not literally, if poetry writing is counted. But writing to prompts ( 30 days of NaPoWriMo prompts) does not feel like writing because you write more from the brain and less from your heart. It feels like exercise. I’m not complaining- a) because I chose to do it […]

  Smitha V

  May 12, 2019

  Experiences

  #comeback, #comparison, #confidenceshaking, #diary, #dontbeaquitter, #experiences, #feedback, #inspiration, #life, #lifeateacher, #mydiary, #overwhelmed, #quote, #readers, #selftalk, #truth, #workinghard, #writingfears, #writingjitters, #writingjourney, Experiences, My diary

• NaPoWriMo: Day 9- Things that make me run

  

  Our (optional) prompt for the day asks you to engage in another kind of cross-cultural exercise, as it is inspired by the work of Sei Shonagon, a Japanese writer who lived more than 1000 years ago. She wrote a journal that came to be known as The Pillow Book. In it she recorded daily observations, […]

  Smitha V

  April 9, 2019

  Poetry

  #day9, #life, #mydiary, #mytruth, #NaPoWriMo2019, #ThePillowBook, #thingsthatIdontlike, #truth, #WhenIfeellikerunningaway, Poetry

• Returning to the Nest

  

  I am sitting at my desk, in Mumbai, in the early hours of the morning. The words in my head play havoc. And I must follow their command and rise even as the rest of the family continues to sleep, tired after the holidays that took us home. Its 5.45 a.m. The sun is yet […]

  Smitha V

  March 24, 2019

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #buildrelations, #countryside, #diary, #experiences, #family, #fiction, #goingbackhome, #India, #life, #lifeateacher, #Mangalore, #mangaloredays, #memories, #mydiary, #nest, #nostalgia, #parenting, #people, #returnhome, #roots, #SouthIndia, #truth, #villagelife, change, Creative Writing, Experiences, My diary