Importance of Great Poetry
There was a time when poetry played a central role in our civilization and culture. Today it has taken the backstage. It occupies an obscure corner in our society. No one knows the foremost poets of today. The classics still have their audience and their aura of mysteriousness and attraction…
Knowledge and Contemporary Skepticism: Modern Trends and their Dilemma
To know is to better yourself. But what is it to know? Is sensing something the same as knowing it or does knowing depends on something more profound? From the days of antiquity and even earlier man has been asking similar questions and trying to answer them. A consensus has…
How to Start Blogging When You Have no Audience
Introduction Talking in an empty Hall is an interesting experience. Your voice is echoed back to you and produces a feeling in you proportional to your delivery, mood, and self-esteem. Writing without an audience is quite similar to that experience. You write and hear back your own words when you…
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69 Orignal Writing Prompt Examples
Sometimes we get into a strange conundrum. We have all the energy in the world to write but no idea what to write about. No matter how hard we try we can't get our minds to come up with something. If you are in such a situation a unique and…
How I Started Blogging: My Creative Writing Journey
I have been reading books for the past 10 years. Three months ago, I started writing. I thought it will be a piece of cake. I googled some articles, opened my notepad, and typed a title. For a very long time, I kept staring at my screen. Then I started…
An Essential Guide to Fullfilment and Success: How to Live a Life of Happiness
The laughter, tears, and sighs. The earth beneath our feet and the star-speckled skies. How beautiful, how precious, is the feeling of being alive. The boundless possibilities that life contains. The freshness and wonder that it always retains. How much can we do with it but how few of us…
10 Proven Ways to Develop a Unique Writer's Style
A writer's style is his identity. It is your signature. It distinguishes your writing from others. It defines you in the eyes of your readers. Without it, your writing is a lifeless husk, disjointed and passionless. Style makes your writing memorable. But how to develop a writing style? Here are…
An In-depth Explanation of Metaphors:What is the Meaning of Metaphors?
Metaphors are everywhere. In articles, books, blogposts, poems. Some even say language itself is a metaphor. But what is actually a metaphor and why even use it when you can use simple language. In this article we discuss the meaning of metaphors and how their use can help better…
Unusual and Lesser-known Literary Genres: What Defines a Genre?
What defines a genre? A genre is commonly defined as “a category of style and composition.” If we look at the origin of the word genre, it is French and it means “kind, sort, or style.” When we use the term literary genre, we make it clear that we are…
244 Powerful Poems, Rumi Quotes About Love, Life And Friendship
Who was Rumi Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi also known as Mowlana or Mawlawi was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and a Sufi mystic. Rumi has influenced people across linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries. The whole Turco-Persian world from India, Central Asia to Turkey is greatly influenced by him. Lately,…
