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Much About Content Creation
A little while back, I started writing about content creation on LinkedIn. A few notes and things I have learned over the years as I have written, and done art, and written some more. As I have suffered writer’s block and imposter syndrome and struggled with my worth as a creator. The thing about content creation is this – it is not easy. It will never be easy. But practice and working at it makes it seem that way. Not giving up is half the battle. That doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to change your focus, or take a break of course. But don’t give up. That is the main…
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Unreliable Narrators
I’ve been putting off writing this post for a little while. It’s more literary than my usual posts, I suppose. I remember once writing an essay about this topic! But the thing is, in one of my fandom spaces especially, people seem to completely be missing the point that the main character of the series is an unreliable narrator and biased. A mix of Main Character Bias (Protagonist Syndrome) and Unreliable Narrators leads to, well, a mess of a fandom. It is not fun. So I thought, why not talk and break down a little of what makes an unreliable narrator unreliable? Why not bring up two characters who are…
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4 Easy Peasy Tomato-y Recipes
I love tomatoes. Anything with tomatoes, rich and acidic and sweet, is almost always an automatic win for me. Which is a good thing because a lot of North Indian food tends to come with a base of tomatoes. A lot of tadkas involve tomatoes alongside many, many spices, either slow roasted over a flame until mushy, or blended and then cooked. Mmmm, tomato-y goodness. Looking back at the many recipes I’ve tried since I started cooking in earnest some 7, 8 years ago, it’s unsurprising that so many of them involve tomatoes in some way or form. Sauces or slices, vine-ripened or cherry or sun-dried – any and every…
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The Ins & Outs Of Creating Content
When I first got on LinkedIn, I didn’t know what I would ever really post on the site. It seemed intimidating and far too professional and proper for the likes of me. It has been a few years since then, and I think I’ve hit a groove on how I prefer to write articles and posts that translates to here and Ko-Fi very well. Why, then, could it not translate to LinkedIn? Then it was a matter of figuring out what to post. Connecting my platforms to one another was key, and so, writing about creating content has become my thing. There is no ‘one size fits all’ for creating…
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Letters Through The Verse
In mid-2021, a writer I am friends with on Twitch and Discord – MelodyRelody – brought up a writing project of sorts that she wanted to try, and hadn’t had the chance to yet as there was not a group of people who were as interested in it or had the means for it. As it was brought up in HayleyHCreates‘ writing server, naturally, there were a number of us intrigued by it. Interest? Check. Means? For the most part, check. Numbers? Check. And so, “letters through the verse” began. We divided ourselves into two groups – those of us capable of sending physical letters, and those of us who…
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Feel Good; The Hallmark Way
And I thought I had been doing so well too. I suppose that tells me not to pat myself on the back too quickly, huh? My impromptu two week break started because of what will go down as one of the worst weeks of my life. Testing positive for Covid, only for my youngest to fall sick while I was in isolation? Horrible feeling, unable to care for her, unable to go with her to the hospital. On top of that, the same day she was hospitalised, my grandfather passed. Yeah, horrible week, really. But things are looking up. My grandfather was not well for a long time, and he’s…
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3 Ways To Spice Up Your Instant Noodles
There’s this trend these days on TikTok and Instagram reels and YouTube shorts on how to ‘hack’ your instant noodles. Ways to dress up the straight-forward and make something new out of the same old. As someone who was tired of the instant noodles she was having – someone who stopped eating instant noodles almost completely – this interested me. What sort of suggestions were there? What could I adapt for myself? And then I saw these videos and – I mean, I’m sure they’re great. I’m sure they’re tasty. But a lot of these hacks involve a lot of prep work, and when I want to eat instant noodles,…
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Books I Was Looking Forward To In 2021
I started a very ambitious blog post in 2020. I mean, at the time, it didn’t seem ambitious. It felt doable. Manageable, and with the amount I had read in 2020, it felt within my reach. And then 2021 happened, and slowly, I realised, no, I can’t do any of this, though I refused to admit defeat for at least half the year. RIP 2021 me, you had high hopes. Defeat wound up being admitted, this blog went on hiatus, and by the end of the year, I had all of one review up on the blog and had forgotten everything else I had read. I did read and write…
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What’s New In 2022
Has it been a ride to get to 2022 or what? It’s certainly felt like it! There were so many things I had wanted to accomplish in 2021, and while some of them I am working on, many things felt like they had fallen on the wayside. But it is a new year, and a fresh start. As I write this post, I sit in home quarantine at my parents’ place, meeting them after almost two years. My kids – the younger of whom is meeting them for the first time – are asleep, and I can make some headway on one of the things I want to accomplish this…
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blogging break 2021
It is September 2021. You look around you and you realise more than half the year has passed by and you’ve posted one review, completed one book, and been struggling to keep your head afloat while the world struggles around you as well. You started this post in July. I think the first I realised that this was okay was when I read Kate’s blog post How To Overcome Blogging Fatigue. Having a name for what I was feeling made me take a step back and realise, hey, it’s okay to feel burned out despite not having actually done much. The situation we are facing now is mentally and emotionally…