Five Years a Writer

Success comes in many colours: the red-orange brightness of exactly what we wanted; the bold purple of meaningful response from readers; the pale blue of “good effort” or “honourable mention”. And even the flip side of success — the empty bleak greyness of utter silence — can be felt as a win if we place the experience above the result. Over the past six or so months of writing, I have experienced all these colour variations, and I will use this multi-hued record as motivation for my next six months of writing. Red/orange bright: I will have an essay published on Brevity blog  on Wednesday, April 26, which describes my self-styled writing training program of the past few years. This is my third publication on that blog and I am delighted to be in the company of the fine writers from many corners of the globe who appear there. In the ‘it’s gets even better’ category, back in December, I pitched an essay topic to Brevity magazine — and the editor accepted it on the basis of ...