You already know what the best thing is. I often used to watch my grandfather with a book. He was either writing one or reading one. My grubby toddler hands would wrap themselves around a tome that he had discarded, and I’d flip the pages to find what fascinated him so much. To my dismay, it …
If the study of history is your worst nightmare, this can help. There is no imagination without the past. There is no past without stories. Scrolling through Instagram, I landed on the post of a traveller who was Damascus. That’s in..umm… Syria, I realized. She went on to share photos of Byzantine churches, lavish mosques …
Between If You Want to Survive The Grind As A New Writer, You Need To Adopt These 7 Practices It’s a jungle out there. Adopt, then build your own practices. Breathe. I often have to remind myself. And not just when I am climbing mountains. Ideas to be captured, research to be completed. Check, check. …
The thrill of alpinism is unparalleled. It’s the adventure of all adventures. The person undertaking this endeavour is an alpinist whom the dictionary describes as a mountain climber specializing in high, difficult and usually first ascents. Alpinism challenges your physical and mental limits pushing you to your absolute limit. On the other hand, a writer …
That is pretty much what we did — walking for about 8 hours every day for 35 days. Simply focused on covering the distance, eating, and sleeping, only to repeat the same routine the next day. I had not given walking any thought until I realized that was all I would do — consuming 35 …
