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AUTHOR AVENGERS; January Round Up
2026 is off to a start, isn’t it? I can’t say much about the state of the world, or what will come, but on a writing front, our little server is going strong. It’s always nice to have a group of writers to talk to, who are encouraging and understanding. This month’s prompt was chosen by L’poni, as it’s their mother’s birthday month! I revisited what I call the Mirrorverse, the world I didn’t expect to have created with the very first prompt when we started this initiative. You can read the previous parts of this ‘verse from here. INDEX: Aradhna Kaur (me!) – Tangled Bonds As per usual, any…
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NEWSLETTER SNIPPETS; Issue #6
The last newsletter of 2025 went out a couple of weeks ago. I can’t believe I’ve sent out six of these already and also started sending out short stories with alternate ones. It’s something I enjoy doing now though, and I hope you all get some enjoyment from it too. You can sign up here! If you’ve been receiving the newsletters, you know I lost a few family members in the first half of the year. There have also been losses in the extended family, of an old friend I lost touch with, and some friends and family of friends as well. That’s not to say it’s only been a…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; December Round Up
It’s the end of the year, and while I’m pretty sure we’ll be continuing on with the tradition of prompt stories next year – this makes, what? 2 and a half years of prompts? I can’t quite believe it, but it has been so much fun. This month’s prompt was chosen by Morris, and because I do not celebrate Christmas and the prompt didn’t specify which holiday, I went with one from my own culture. It was a little bit inspired by a Hallmark movie, which I do recommend! INDEX:Aradhna Kaur (me!) – Five Days Of Vesakhi As per usual, any stories going up after today will be added to the list later! If…
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How I Keep To My Posting Schedule
It’s been a few years of consistently having a few platforms. They’ve changed in appearance, in name – this year’s username change was a long time in the making! – but I have been managing to keep at it. It took me a while to get into a groove with keeping to a schedule, and I struggled at first, taking on more than I could manage – does anyone else remember the attempt to post on YouTube and Instagram weekly? It burnt me out pretty quickly – but now I like to think I’ve settled on something I can handle. The key to being able to keep afloat instead of…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; November Round Up
November has come to a close. With it, 2025 is coming to a close too. It’s been quite the year. If you’ve been following along on this page (and my newsletter), you’ll know just how much of a year it’s been. But writing has been happening, my daily streak has been going strong, and I haven’t missed a prompt story yet! This month’s prompt was a song suggested by me! I highly recommend listening to Inkpot Gods by The Amazing Devil because it is so good. I enjoyed writing to it on repeat, and the lyrics make for fantastic titles (see below!). INDEX:Alex Roma – to those gods i will speak…
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OHHOW And The Joys Of Writing Streams
Last weekend, I took part in a writing event on Twitch after almost a year. OHHOW, or One Hundred Hours Of Writing, is a streaming event aiming to connect writers all over the world and encourage them to work on their projects – or anything, really – with the online community cheering them on. They track words, minutes, and turn what can be an isolating hobby or career into something fun and even competitive at times. I’ve streamed with them before, but last year I was locked out of my account and could not. I recently got access back and so was very excited to stream for the event again.…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; October Round Up
Can you believe we’re in November? And last month’s prompt was a little more – shall we say, sad? A little more final and yet the offerings from my fellow writers still manage to highlight the goodness and kindness and empathy people show if only they choose to. (Yes, I said offerings. We have more than one this past month!) The prompt itself was suggested by L’poni, and I definitely had fun adapting a (rejected) submission offering into my story. I hope you enjoy them all. INDEX:Alex Roma – september 24thMorris Wayts – Last PageAradhna Kaur (me!) – The Last Bowl Of Kichdi As per usual, any stories going up after today will be…
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Cosy Season
I’ve been reading for almost 30 years now – god, I feel old – and growing up, when I realised I wanted to write, I always thought the first novel I’d ever finish would be a fantasy one. It was my favourite genre, it was an escape, it was just fun in so many ways. And yeah, over the years I grew more aware of internal biases and representation and the lack of it. I grew more aware of all of that in my own writing (and reframing some of that made something click in my writing that it hadn’t before), and I still thought I’d write a fantasy novel…
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NEWSLETTER SNIPPETS; Issue #5
Three quarters into the year and writing blog post intros can still trip me up. I suppose because I don’t want to just rehash the newsletter snippets that will come after this? Ah well, I’ll let them do the talking. You can sign up here! There’s something about the second half of the year that’s just – busy and quick in so many ways. These past few months have seen some travel – I finally went to visit my parents! I also came down with such bad food poisoning two days in that I was hospitalised, but that’s not important. Then there were TWO weddings within the span of a…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; September Round Up
It’s officially more than two years since we started these prompts. It’s allowed me to try so many new genres and styles of storytelling across a span of so many different sorts of prompts. This month’s prompt was set by Ash and I’ll be honest, I almost went for something extremely tragic based on my religious history. I’ve been doing a bit of reading and learning again on the history of my ancestors and the prompt is perfect for that. While the story I ultimately wrote is still inspired by history, it’s not that first tragic story I thought of. (Maybe someday I’ll be able to write that without crying…