Shows
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Maybe crying over Isaac Asimov’s The Last Question: WebinarClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "If you are a fan of science fiction, swell. There is one author you have to read. He is called Isaac Asimov. To say that he wrote and he wrote and he wrote would be an understatement because he's one of those people who thought faster than he wrote. So he used to hate the process of compiling the book. The man was brilliant. So again, the thought processes are going in all directions. He used to compile the book and then it used to be published."
2025-07-1403 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Chase your cool: why Binati does not recommend booksClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And yeah, in case you have ever asked me for a recommendation and I have left you unread, this is why I want you to discover books on your own. Have like a whole book discovery system which can include taking recommendations from social media, content creators and community posts and things like that."
2025-07-0403 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | E-Bookclub recommendationsClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "The team is picking books that are so introspective and books that stay with you for years after you are done reading with them. So you, you get an email from Service 95 that the book of the month is going to be this and then do I interviews the author. It's. It's brilliant. The whole thing is it. And with Service 95, I think you don't get to meet the reader communities. You absolutely have all our recommendations for books this month."
2025-07-0204 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | A PSA to Volunteer, to helpClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "So another thing to do is when something goes wrong and see, no matter where you are in the world, something will go wrong naturally or from man made accidents or causes an accident has happened, some sort of calamity has happened. The impulse is to go and see what's up. But see when you go to go and see what's up, what you're doing is you're creating crowds. I have personally volunteered to help provide aid, medical aid. So they gave us training."
2025-06-1204 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Webinar: Building multilayered storiesClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Hello, swell. This is a webinar announcement about layering your stories, which is a fancy way of saying every story is never just one thing. There will be multiple things in a story that work together to give you the wonderful onion, you know, which is the story. It will make you cry, it will stink up the place, it will act as the aromatic element of your food and it will make things delicious, provide texture, do so many things."
2025-05-2203 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | New Pet peeve detected: we need consequencesClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "People need to suffer a little bit when they have not been nice throughout the book. So mild spoiler warning on Ali Hazelwood's Deep End. If you want to read it, please come back to this one after you've read it. I am talking about Penelope. Obviously. If you've read Deep End, you know this. The entire review section of that book is people just not liking the character arc of this side character because she is so mean throughout the book."
2025-04-2504 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Chasing lil joysClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "But in talking about these things that made me turned literature into passion, which also became profession, reintroduced me to my joy. Like I found my joy and nothing can ruin my mood on account of it. So I think the lesson here is life happens to us all. We get busy, stuff happens and you put joy on a pause. Don't do that. If possible, maybe find like five minutes once a week to do something that brings you a lot of joy."
2025-03-2103 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Common mistake, two different choicesClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "If your intention was to write something hurtful, it shows Lark was intentionally trying to write something hurtful. And obviously people pulled support from that. So this is where I implore you to learn from the mistakes of these authors. Nobody is asking you to not write complex, darker themes into books. It's just that don't make light of the theme. Intent matters, so does the execution of how you frame the entire topic. Okay, happy writing."
2025-03-1304 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | ARC (advanced reader/review copies): Information peppered with gossipClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "ARCs or advanced reader Review copies are simple to get, but then it is not that simple. Hello, swell. Something happened in my professional life that made me want to talk about the arcing process because I think not a lot is known about this. In general, when big book releases are planned, we follow this process called arcing, where copies of the book are sent out to get reviews when the book launches."
2025-03-0205 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Otterly perfect annoyanceClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "The point of this blah is we live so much of our life unaware of so many, so many, so many things. And then somewhere something like this shows up and absolutely makes your day. So. So yeah, listen, even if it is a neighbor uncle annoying you with their TVs volume, sometimes you can discover an otter is a water cat in some language. Has something like this ever happened to you where you discovered something quite on accident, but it was pretty well known so to speak."
2025-02-1402 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (Empyrean Series)Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "So yeah, I'm sorry if you are, on behalf of the publishing industry, I'm sorry if you are disappointed by your excitement for the book being rewarded like this. And yeah, if you have follow up questions, feel free to ask."
2025-01-2407 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Understand Magical realism by joining my webinar (or asking me questions here on Swell)Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And writers, authors like say Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of, one of the bigger names, the biggest actually in Magical Realism because he won a Nobel for one hundred Years of Solitude. You, you, you can comment on. And he did comment on the civil wars happening around the place and its effect on people. Because see Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a journalist before he became a celebrated author. And you can do those non fictiony pieces."
2025-01-2204 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | #AmReading The dark legacy of Shannara by Terry BrooksClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "There are references in the book like Al Anon and the Omsford family and the wish, the magic of all of this. All of these would be massive spoilers to other books in the series, so don't want to ruin them for you. So I'm really, really enjoying how layered the world building is, to be honest. So I. I am aspiring to finish book 23 to book 35 by March, but I know I won't be able to do it."
2025-01-2106 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | No feminists detected in ACOTAR series by Sarah J MaasClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "It is deeply conservative behaviors, to be honest, but feminist dialogue and, I mean, yeah, shoot me. Also on the topic of gripes, this is not exactly about feminism, but whatever is happening with the world building within this book, it. It's so inconsistent. And, oh, my God, the writing, it's so repetitive. And as an editor, I ran a few checks. She repeats certain lines again and again and again throughout the books."
2024-12-2406 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Enduring: Wellness by Nathan HillClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And I thought it's a satire. And the more I got into the book, I realized, oh, it's. It might be a satire. Doesn't matter whether it is, because what all the dialogue and the monologues and the explanations within the book is trying to do is. It is trying to ask you to define what wellness is to you and why there are all of these weird permissions that we seek in the way we live our life and how there are moments that shape us."
2024-12-2410 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Nonfiction writing/editing advice: don’t projectClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "It's about somebody who happens to be your target audience. So that is why I shared this quote and the context again, which can be located from clicking on the link in the description. So while you write your non fictions inspired by some quote, some paragraph things of the sort, don't project if you can help it or project as much as you want."
2024-12-0704 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | A chirping meeping dragonClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "But instead of going row or like, or anything of the sort, it goes chirp, chirp like a bird or meep, meep like a bird. How shocking would that be? That's what I basically encountered in a book. This book is technically a romance novel and it has a. It's. It's got elements of fantasy in it. So it's not exactly a human romance. It is. There are humans in this universe, of course."
2024-11-2904 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Keep the joy alive ✨Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "I think when you keep getting information and when you only keep getting information, okay, you're not doing anything else. You're just, oh, XYZ authors publishing journey. Oh, XYZ editor's advice or this publisher's interview on YouTube or I hope you understand what I'm trying to imply here. When you are gathering information about the publishing industry from everywhere, you're not like really working on your book or you're not really actively engaging with the process. You're just collecting information."
2024-11-1704 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Trash is subjective because sometimes, treasure likes to wear a disguiseClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Taking things away from books that are not so good. Hello, swell. And this is just an optimist's take on reading a book that was as advertised, not so good. We all have reading preferences and sometimes we pick up books thinking they are about one thing. But then as you read the book you discover oh no, I have been fooled. And you've. I am one of those people. I don't think I've ever DNF'd a book."
2024-10-2504 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | 30% into reading Wellness by Nathan HillClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "So if you read the book wellness by Natal Hill, let me know how badly this is going to hurt. If you haven't read it, check it out and consider reading it. It's excellent."
2024-10-2305 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Figuring out Romance Tropes in BooksClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Because romance books are very, very easy to read. So you don't really have to pause and think. You just have to read, enjoy, move on. And b, these books are written exclusively for the readers, the audiences, for entertainment purposes. You are not supposed to suddenly start believing in love after you read a romance book."
2024-10-2204 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Me talking about Ali Hazelwood books with friendsClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Nor romance. Yeah. And who noticed the nice impression she gave to the word cute? Yes, cute. It is cute. Let's review. Let's review beneath. The books are genuinely so cute because it's like, you know, we talk about the female gaze and this the book. Ali is even under a pseudonym. She is a woman. We often talk about what is important to women, right?"
2024-07-2803 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Don’t make my mistake - Rely on others and ask for helpClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "But now that I recognize that this is an issue, one of the first things I did is I reached out to a friend and I said, you know, help me. Because right now I'm just done with ghost writing as a whole, because reasons. But I don't want to do that anymore. I just want to edit books now and have enough time to work on my own project."
2024-07-1104 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Sunk cost fallacies and focusClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "So instead, if I focus on this, let me just step back for a little bit and nothing spam people with absolutely horrible posts and instead just step aside and complete the work, learn what I need to, and then come back when I have time. I think that is a pretty cool way to navigate all the issues that social media content creation probably creates in people's life with regard to burnout and degrading quality and being repetitive, etcetera, etcetera."
2024-07-1004 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The cure to burnout is...Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And he was trying to think of things from the make exceptional success happen in your professional life point of view and not physics is so cool. I want to find more answers. Point of view. And so he decides after a conversation with Hans Besser to have fun with physics. And his burnout just went away. Because, see, the burnout was preventing him from being good at his job. And the counter he found for that is I'll have fun at my job."
2024-05-1504 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Always read the fine print (free lunches don’t exist, even in book publishing)Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And because they are charging for every bit of it, you will ask for explanations that why, why here and why there is on Amazon, you are technically not being charged up front. So you don't really ask any questions. You just hit I accept. And then later on you end up, you know, having a loss. So know that every form of book publishing involves risks. The risk is being taken by the publisher."
2024-05-0904 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Books that shift your perspective without intending to do soClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Murasaki Shikibu is one of the first novelists that we know of. She wrote Kenji no Monogatari or tales of Kenji, which is, let's just say, inspired by her life as a lady in the high courts to write this book, she was actually involved in the courts and she used to journal about what she saw. Now, a lot of the journal, the Shiki Boniki, has been destroyed because it's old, right? You are talking about the first novelist ever, period."
2024-05-0704 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The (untrue) Archimedes storyClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "He was like, I shall do storytelling because why not? Future Kepachito Karangi, the kids of the future are going to do this. I am a trailblazer. I will do storytelling before they even conceptualize the concept. Yes. Galileo Galilee when he was young, because Galileo had academic interest, so he used to read a lot of things. When he read Vituvius's books. He was like, what the hell is this Archimedes story?"
2024-03-2604 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Write freely, Edit under constraintsClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And you assume if you don't give your readers that something, they're going to get mad at you and they are not going to read your work again. Things like your focus shifts from writing to the result of writing. And just like that, you stop writing because your focus has shifted to fitting your work in a box. To cite a cliche, you are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole."
2024-03-2404 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Two questions: How do you discover books and then how do you review them?Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "It doesn't matter how popular or well recommended or under recommended or criticized the book is, if it catches my eye, I'm going to pick it up. And that's basically what I chase as my book discovery system. It has to seem interesting to me and then I generally don't dnf books. Like, I don't think I have ever DNF'd a book I endure or enjoy or both through the book, and then I sit down to review it."
2024-03-1904 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Extracting value from Books: question courtesy Christina :)Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "We are doing something different today. Hello. Christina reached out in the personal messages of Swell to talk about this particular review of Courage to be disliked that I dropped on Goodreads and she was wondering why my review reads the way that it does. More specifically, why I say that the book is difficult to read and yet it is a fantastic read. She has questions along this lines of why I say that it is a reader's job to extract value and not a writer's job to provide it."
2024-03-1804 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Japan’s first invasion of privacy case from a bookClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "When your book creates history for the right reasons and the wrong reasons. Hello. Sril. Let's talk about the first invasion of privacy case brought on on a book in Japan by the book after the banquet by the author Yukio Mishima. So Yukiyo Mishima was known for being. Being ultra conservative. And I don't mean your run in the male conservative, as in dress politely and practice economic frugality, all of this. No, this is proper conservative. An emperor should rule the country."
2024-03-0105 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Learn to buy the products you need by noticing the advert-copyClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Hello. So everybody is trying to sell us stuff these days, right? And not all the products that we are being sold are bad. Some products are really, really good. But what all of these good products and bad mediocre products have in common is excellent sales messaging. Every single product, whether the product is good or not, they get their sales and marketing done really well. So how exactly are you supposed to know whether what product you are investing in is good or not?"
2024-02-2805 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Delete it all 😈 - some radical writing adviceClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "What to do when everything in your writer life seemingly goes to hell? This is a radical approach. Okay. Proceed with caution, because I think not everyone is okay with what I am about to suggest. My suggestion is delete it all. Hello. Swell. And to day on radical advice you didn't ask for, but you are receiving it anyway. Because I think there are parts of the writer life that nobody talks about."
2024-02-2704 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Be better at online discourse by avoiding this one thingClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "So this is the technique that is surprisingly used in online discourse a lot, because you will see influencers, intellectuals, and I am sure I have fallen victim to using Morton Bailey sometime as well, specifically when it comes to things I'm very, very emotional about, like new authors being attacked, things of the sort, no matter how intentional I try to be about the words. You can very easily fall prey to Morton Bailey, because Morton Bailey, by definition is a defense mechanism."
2024-02-0504 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Discussing death (live) on Social MediaClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And I wrote about this on LinkedIn, and I made a little video on YouTube as well. But in a sense, the point is, death is written in a way that a lot of people don't write it. Under the creative genius of Yukiyo Mishima. This is where me and Tim, specifically from Japan, expert insights, got to talking to each other. And we were like, let's do a live about death. And I was like, fine, I absolutely don't mind."
2024-02-0204 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Show the readers, make them care (instead of just telling them things)Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Think about all the stories that have truly appealed to you, and these are not stories from your life. These are stories that you have read. Hello. Swell. And today, let's talk about the goat, greatest of all time, goat of book writing as well as storytelling, which is show don't tell. See, a lot of authors have this misconception that telling a story is exactly that."
2024-01-2704 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The Hugo 2023 controvery is just infuriatingClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "No, this time it is so much worse. This is actually, I think, a controversy that is not going to get as popular as other controversies, like two authors fighting each other and things of the sort. I think a lot of this controversy will be swept under the rug. But the crux of it is, for the first time, one of the biggest democratic award shows in the world, which awards quality and awards what the audience wants."
2024-01-2404 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | My name is … mosquito murdererClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "I discovered a hidden talent when I had to get rid of some mosquitoes without using any chemical agents or making those snappity snap, clappy clap sounds, where we just go clapping around, hoping to get lucky. So rather than a hidden talent, this would be a technique. And I don't know what was going through my head. I was so young, I don't even remember exactly what it was, but I remember the effects of this technique. So this is what you do."
2024-01-2402 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Process the plagiarismClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Many instances, lawyers, an email going from a lawyer's email ID to the person who has plagiarized your work, that is enough to kind of scare them to take the work down, right? So have somebody who can legally advise you and then maybe speak on your behalf to the person who has plagiarized you so that the person who's plagiarized you knows that you know, and you could do something about the plagiarism."
2023-12-0905 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Everything is content- I ask, is art content too?Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "You. The purpose of content is to be consumed and then moving on. You scroll. You get entertained, then you move on. You scroll. You are informed about something, then you move on. You scroll, you consume, and then you move on. The purpose of art, on the other hand, is to initiate a pause. You observe the art. You have thoughts. These thoughts multiply over time. They inspire you into what eventually becomes original thought."
2023-12-0601 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | English and Physics walked into a club and partiedClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And that's a difficult subject to make interesting and somehow she found a way to do that. And she didn't do the she was very strict. She used to break meter scales on our hands if we got anything wrong. Like I had a meter scale broken on my hand. She didn't allow me to sit in a practical exam because, I don't know, she got angry about something. I don't remember what I did to make her angry."
2023-12-0404 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Disappearing from Social Media channels for a monthClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "The only thing they care about is you are providing them the value they seek. So, yeah, if you are worrying or wondering about going on a social media break and you're like, oh, the followers will go away. No, they won't. The bots might go away, people who have followed you from something viral, they might go away."
2023-11-2905 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | I don’t regret posting and ghosting. Would you?Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "So if there are creators that are supporting your work just out of basic niceness, you reciprocate that, right? Like a friend of mine is a creator. At least I take their workout, that type of a thing. Because I'm not opening platforms at all. Because in spite of cleaning the feeds and everything, I don't know, I think this is age related. But being on a device, irrespective of social media platforms, being on a device is exhausting."
2023-10-3006 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | 3 tips to a fulfilling digital lifeClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "They have too much time, or they want to troll you back for something you did to them. It could be anything. You have no way of knowing because both of you are on digital devices. And there is a translation I like to call this a translation error between the analog and the digital mediums. So let people be wrong about you. So they didn't understand what you said, so they think you are wrong. Fine. What do you have to lose? Nothing."
2023-10-1604 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | I started charging for calls and you should too!Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And since I've done that, I've done 63 calls so far and I charged 2000 Indian rupees per call for 1 hour. And what that has done is it has reduced the amount of spam I was receiving. Because people have paid 2000 Indian rupees for the call. They show up because they are like, otherwise I don't disappear. I stay if someone is late. And if I don't have any calls later on, I also extend the calls if the other person wants to."
2023-10-1206 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The little things we do for each otherClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And I put that in the menu as like a starter, so to speak, because I know kids were on there and we can have a separate discussion about the impact of food on culture and vice versa. This is not about that. I've seen the kids from the family and from the building and things of the sort, they pivot more towards these type of foods, fast food, as we call them. And it's a Sunday, right?"
2023-10-0104 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Episode 1 Teaser: ProcrastinationClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "I will write my book two years later when I am smarter, wiser, blah, blah, blah blah. Does that sound familiar? I know it sounds familiar, because this is something that all writers do called procrastination, where we trust future us more than present us. Hello, swell. And this is the teaser to the first premium swell that will be dropping tomorrow on Writing and beyond about ideation. Ideation begins by thinking and then jotting down what you thought about."
2023-09-2701 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Writing And Beyond - Expert tips on crafting your own BooksClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "I am Binati Sheth and I'm a member of the book publishing industry with over a decade of experience in writing, editing and publishing books. Trust me when I say this you are an author. I don't know what leads to people believing that they are not authors, that they are not storytellers, but you are. You have the ability to tell a story and I will help you figure it out. My series of Writing and beyond is going to deal with you becoming an author."
2023-09-2513 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Beta reading BooksClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "We get our books beta read if the budget allows it and time allows it, because we want the book to be better and that's it amit. Agarwal is the one who told me this for the first time, but he said that a book launch is like a product launch. That's what it is. And beta reading is nothing but beta testing the product to see whether everyone understands the same thing that you want them to."
2023-09-0704 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The power of obviousness (and good storytelling)Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And so every bit of the story you write has to build to that. And then when you give the resolution, make it so poetic that people absolutely don't care that it's a cliche. People don't care. It's obvious. People don't care. They saw this coming. They just enjoy the feelings and they recommend your thing and move on. Most commercial literature, most commercial movies and TV shows and things like that, have this going for them."
2023-08-2804 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Tis the time for a trilogyClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And now reading the book, it's like, oh, this is how she did it. When I read the book for the first time, I was genuinely just wowed by how using mere words, simple textural words, how is she making me see this world? Right?"
2023-08-2504 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Gift the younger generation the joy of ReadingClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "This was me as a kindergartner apparently getting a set of books for being a good student. And I still have those books, and I'm not going to get rid of them. So if you remember, and if you don't mind sharing, what was your first book ever and who gifted it to?"
2023-08-2404 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Avoid the seasonal blue and try those evergreen options: SmaltClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "When writing, remember: 1. You maybe used Smalt which oxodised i.e. external factors influenced your past work making it age unexpectedly. 2. You can make evergreen choices using foresight and effort. 3. Emulate don’t imitate to leave behind that legacy you desire. ⚪️Subscribe to my Premium Swells."
2023-08-1904 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Two Nonfictions being savoured like fine wine alongside journalingClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "I'm journaling a lot and I'm being very intentional with it, having so much fun. Ten on ten. What? Thousand on thousand. 100% recommend this way of reading books, which put you in this existential black hole. But then the light at the end of this black hole is super bright, super cool. Yes. Happy reading. Tell me what you've been up to in the bookish realm. Bye."
2023-08-1804 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | A comic series, a nonfiction and two textbooksClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "So that's how I know this. Specifically, I put the book down because and I'll tell you the premise of Don't Label Me, it is very self explanatory. We label people, and then each label has assumptions associated to it. And because of that, we have preconceived notions of who the person is before we actually go into a conversation with them. Now, I identify as a libertarian in terms of my political policies."
2023-08-1105 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Seek Criticism with your Written workClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Now that you have received this criticism, how you react to the criticism, which is do you take it positively or do you take it negatively? That is the second thing you do correctly because there's a reason why a lot of good authors are older. Writing requires experience and how you take criticism decides how quickly you gain that experience. So don't fear criticism. Instead embrace it. Know what? Seek it. So happy writing."
2023-08-1004 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Asking your opinion on this Book coverClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Hello. Swell. Today I'm asking you a question, which is when you see that book cover in the photo, and I want you to see the book cover also. In an effort to enhance accessibility, I'm going to read what the book cover says, which is how to Hug a Porcupine Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life. What do you think this book is about? Let me know and I look forward to hearing from you."
2023-08-0801 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Turn your Social Media feeds into ultimate discovery toolsClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "I do know social media is problematic in some of the things that they push to us. Say, for example, unrealistic body standards. So this is me trying to give you an alternative way to deal with turning your social media into a utopia of sorts because it is kind of possible. The only thing you have to do is like you have to spend one week once in six, seven months to clean your social media feeds."
2023-07-2805 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | ‘Cause I feel so happy - thanks to Sreeja and RamyaClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "So I didn't manage to find my thing and I was pretty bummed out about it because this is literally one of the biggest things that has happened. And then Ramya reached out and I was like, Ramya, please. And I shamelessly begged, can you send this to me? And Ramya was like, I absolutely can send this to you, but somebody else already requested the copy from me. So one of the other authors featured, ghost writers featured on the article got to Ramya before I did."
2023-07-2105 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Why do similar things get different reactions?Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "So I think there's been a trending story recently of someone now identified as a British citizen who carved something for his girlfriend and things of this sort in the Roman Coliseum, and people are rightfully angry about that. And here we have two ancient Greek travelers whose graffitis have become popular, so to speak. Both of these, I suppose, are a way of someone letting the world know that they were there. A version of immortalizing their experience in a place."
2023-07-0602 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The Arts, trade and how we express our humanityClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "But then there is a part of this extremely sinister reality that a lot of our ancestors went through that was beautiful. And I think that was the art of it all. Even the art that decries the absolute horror, which was civilizations and cultures being wide out. So share your thoughts. Very curious to know what you feel about something of this sort."
2023-06-2003 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | People are people ^ - ^Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And when we use them as references for how things have changed for the better or worse, I think what we forget is we are talking about actual people people people people people who used to exist. And how that is just so sad. Because with enough time passing, even people people become tools, memories or remnants of a person's existence becomes just a means to an end of sorts. So I came across this image, this image which probably is an invitation sent out for someone's daughter's birthday."
2023-06-1603 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Learning languages destroys your sense of self and replaces it with something more universalClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "What learning languages did for me is it allowed me to immerse in multiple cultures around the world, specifically with cultures who accepted me as part of their own communities and taught me minor little intricacies of their culture in their language. The moment I learned someone's language, my identity as a Gujarati Indian woman blended into that of Japanese women based in Fukuoka, Japan. And something similar happened while learning Russian. Something similar is happening while learning Korean."
2023-05-3003 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Create what you want to (say no to hype) - The anti-Scheele’s greenClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And when you keep doing that consistently for a long enough time, chances are you might lose that which makes you you because everything about you is about what the others want to do or others are trying to do. When you look at things with Hype, when you look at trending topics, when you look at the popular stuff and you just try to create that because if I react to the popular stuff, chances are I might be popular too."
2023-05-2904 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | New ideas - A tip for writing in publicClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "It is just about putting two and two together. And to put two and two together, this content consumption notebook or digital notebook, it would be very helpful. What you need to do is, first of all, you need to have your full attention drawn to whatever it is you are consuming. If you are reading a book, pay attention to that. If you're watching a YouTube video, pay attention to that. If you're watching an Instagram reel, pay attention to that."
2023-05-2304 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Why do we degrade our selves in making machines sound smart?Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Why is human thought, action and execution as an execution of an idea put above one's humanity? Specifically, when it comes to any technology that is discussed in public, let me know. Also on to, like GPD Four and things of the sort, something Jaron mentions. And this book is old, right? It's not new. He mentions how did that search engine really know what you want? Or are you playing along, lowering your standards to make it seem clever? He's right."
2023-05-2103 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Personal story time - Making radical changes (TW).Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "The weirdness of existence as a whole. Hello. Swell. And this is a personal share. Feel free to click off if that's not something you are into. Very recently, and this is not even a month ago, a 2007 year old son of my mother's friend. He passed away from a heart attack. And I did not know Rushl very well. I just used to meet him every time we would go to andabad to meet my mother's friends."
2023-05-1804 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The Author-Agent-Agency Bermuda Triangle ~ Book Agents are your friendsClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "In the link attached in the description, you'll see like a post which summarizes what is currently going on with New Leaf Literary and Media Agency where an agent has been let go and her 45 clients have been left in a limbo. A lot of the initial blame was assigned to the agent but authors are now coming out and sharing the, I suppose, actual truth of this entire situation which somehow keeps repeating again and again wherein the agency gets greedy."
2023-05-1705 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Authors dissing other authors - the classics editionClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "So check this article out and let me know what your thoughts are about this. My friend Jeff seems to think that the reason why popular authors kind of insult each other frequently is the tall poppy syndrome. The tall poppy syndrome is when you have someone who becomes popular too quickly, that's the tall poppy. The rest of the people who have been working hard and things of the sort, they look at the tall poppy and they are like undeserved victory, and they criticize the tall poppy."
2023-04-2103 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Taylor Jenkins ReidClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "However, we still have this inclination to keep watching the news again and again and it's not just the fact that you want to be informed, you also are looking for some form of entertainment, distraction, stuff of that sort. Her books do that. Her books have similar, I would say patterns in terms of giving you quick paced information and then slowing down pace around something important and it is done so immaculately. I think it is more on the editor than on the writer here."
2023-04-1405 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Do you look for context - The Great Gatsby sighs in the Sistine ChapelClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "The reason why I highlighted both of these stories is you'd assume Michelangelo michelangelo, even in his time, he was incredibly popular, not just commercially, also creatively. He had impostor syndrome. He had all of these things that we seem to think are modern artist problems, but then they are not. Then we have F. Scott Fitzgerald with, I would say, the kind of past that he did."
2023-04-1204 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The Power of Amateur Voiceover Acting - Studio GhibliClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "There's no point. However, I had two realizations while listening to the Swell. First, I have already voiced on failed's thing, which is with regards to audiobooks being a victim, I would say, of a similar phenomena where instead of actual voiceover artists, now we have influencers and celebrities who are being prioritized. The second thing I realized, which I didn't quite voice at that point, was the Hayao Miyazaki methodology, which was oddly very effective for Studio Ghibli movies."
2023-04-0904 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Struggling with 2023 - Confession timeClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "I don't like putting numbers to things, but then if you do have a journaling habit, which is something that I do have, it is hard to not look at the number. By now, I at least have one page filled with names of books and then a lot of corresponding pages filled with what I thought about the books and things of this art, personal opinions. What would I have done differently or what did I really like about it? What did I not like about it?"
2023-04-0902 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The Colleen Hoover PhenomenonClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Younger audiences who don't know better easily find her books, I would say understandable, relatable, kind of bragworthy on social media, things of the sort. So I think this is why the Colin hoover phenomena kind of works, irrespective of everything logical, the emotional wins. And then there is that. What are your thoughts around this? Let me know."
2023-04-0404 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Is being a full-time author sustainable?Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Why do authors have to do this when their books have sold millions of copies around the world? Well, the answer is simple it's because of how you get paid in publishing. With book publishing, you generally don't get a lot of money in the same goal, irrespective of how well or how badly your book is selling. What happens is there is a cycle that is agreed upon when you sign your author's agreement."
2023-04-0304 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The Practice by Seth GodinClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "It is he sends something irrespective of what's going on in his life. And I think that's a very good role model to have when it comes to writing a book of this sort because he's been practicing the thing for years. He's been walking the talk for years. And his network, I think, courtesy of the books, is written the talks he's given around the world and the kind of consultancy services he's provided across the board."
2023-03-2704 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | On piracy and plagiarismClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Today on work advice, let me combine the two things I do, which is assist the publishing ecosystem and also spend approximately an hour each day as a part of the creator economy. One problem that has no solution, no quick solution, is plagiarism. You will get plagiarized if you do something original. I want you to know this in advance, primarily because whenever plagiarism happens to people, they are caught like a deer in headlights."
2023-03-2505 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | #WorkAdvice - 4 blahs on Book PublishingClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "There's also Nielsen Book Data, which says something like, india's print distribution has hit an all time low. But then, India is the world's third largest book market in the world, and by 2024, the market projections have very good things to say about Indian book publishing ecosystem. That's it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask."
2023-03-2405 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | On Utilitarianism - where good ideas go awryClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And it does maybe restore your faith in humanity a little bit that people feel like they can justify fudging results just because more money would go towards charity. But what happens when you amplify this effect? This is where good ideas go awry. This is where utilitarianism becomes an oroboros or a snake that eats its own tail. Because the moment your outcome changes, so will your methodology."
2023-03-2204 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki, Edwin McClellan (Translator)Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "But then in spite of the ending, the thing works in terms of not absolutely shattering you, but pulling you in this void of thoughts and such. Yes. Do I recommend Coco by natsi mesiki. I do. I definitely do. This is a reading experience. You will have so many questions once you are done reading the book and then there are no answers, which is what makes this book, I think, even book much more beautiful. Because is then your imagination could be the creation."
2023-03-2004 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Fear as a catalyst for creativityClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Let the fear drive your creativity. Hello. Swell. Today let us talk about the correlationship between worrying about things, fear, things of that sort, and creativity. When I say creativity, I don't just mean the arts. You write a book, you draw a painting, you make a beautiful culture."
2023-03-1904 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Where does the art end - Farewell my ConcubineClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "But then watching this movie made me realize, oh, we never really know how obsessed we are till we reach that point where it is impossible to deny. And by that point, it's too late. So my question for you to Israel is where do you think the art ends and the artist begins? Because the art and the artist are two separate entities. If we separate the art and the artist for the bad stuff, why don't we separate it for the healthy stuff either?"
2023-03-1404 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed CatmullClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And what that means is things that I'm writing, things that I'm creating, while I find merit in them, some people find merit in them, largely speaking, they don't really have an audience, right? So what exactly is it that would help me fix this problem? Because you have to fix a problem once you recognize it, and it is a problem."
2023-03-1204 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of 'right wing backlash'Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Or they would not air it in places where Tories watch BBC More, which is their television sets, but instead making the episode available on Iplayer where a more younger audience, maybe a more libertarian audience, watches the show. From a business standpoint, this makes sense. They are preemptively ensuring that there is no outrage."
2023-03-1102 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The real story of the Newtonian AppleClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "He is known to want to stay huddled indoors. There's a 20 year gap between when the apple I'm putting air quotes as I speak this when the apple fell and when the story of the Newtonian apple became public and the Principia mathematica came out, which is the book in which you can read about all of these mathematical and physical limit of physical calculations. Right?"
2023-03-1003 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko KawakamiClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "The end of a work assignment. Right. However, you will rarely see Saionara being used in friendly, familiar type of relationships because they do see each other tomorrow. They do see each other later. This dynamic plays off so beautifully in this book. Using the unnamed narrator, Miko Kawkami exposes us to this omnipresent anxiety of loneliness and knowing one's place in the world. Now, the narrator of the book is a child."
2023-03-0904 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | How my obsession with philosophy startedClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "I like big books and I cannot lie. Hello. Swell. Today let's talk about where the obsession to the biggest books I've read. These are the works of philosophers, a long dead or still alive, that fascinate me every single day. The main reason is that unlike other forms of academia, where you are restricted by a box, if you are talking about something, that's exactly it. The frontier mindset involved was in making the discovery, right? And then that's it."
2023-03-0705 minBinati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Has this ever happened to you?Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Let me tell you what life is like without functioning Internet connection. Hello, Swell. Since February, Vinity has not had super strong, super fast Internet connections and she is completely relying on hot spots that are coming from her phone. I have an Air TL 4G connection, which is strong if you have good network connectivity. But I don't. I barely get three towers when I'm being lucky. Mostly it's on two right now as I speak. Yes, it's on two."
2023-03-0504 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko OgawaClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "I would say in using certain plot lines and in using certain characters in there, I was taking tiny little things and making them grandiose. And this book is absolutely not about that. This book actually has grandiose tragedies. You have a decorated mathematics professor losing his memory. His memory lasts just for 80 minutes. You have a single mother who is largely cut off from society because she is working so hard to survive for her child and to ensure that her child has better odds in life than she did."
2023-02-2804 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Storyworthy by Matthew DicksClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And the second thing I enjoyed is also related to it, which is finding the diamond in the coal mine, which is to say that we have this giant list of spectacular things we are doing and every single day, and then from it, you are looking for that one moment, that one emotional truth. You want to expand into a story, fictional or otherwise. It's brilliant. It is such good writing exercise, in my opinion."
2023-02-2704 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Quirky Questions disguised as an interviewClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And so I messaged seeking plum or Christina that are you willing to experiment with me where we ask each other weird questions or where I ask her weird questions? But I know she can play the game right back at me because she's so creative. I love the way she thinks. So the first question for you, Christina, is, and I already told you this question on the chat, which is, if you are a cat, what is the first thing you would paw away?"
2023-02-2402 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Introspect that IndexClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "That's it. That's the index. And then there is jarang, who has this index. So adorable, this index. I mean, if you look at any of her books and you flip to the index, you will have no clue what the book is about. Is this a sad book, funny book, fantasy book? What is it exactly? And that's that question of what happens next kind of props in your head. A butterfly that better not be my dead sister."
2023-02-2105 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | I found my peaches in Mumbai :)Click here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "I panicked because I was supposed to be in Mumbai, at taj Lands, in Mumbai, in bandra or bandstand Mumbai by 01:00 p.m. And the train was sided. I get this message from irctc going oh yeah, don't worry, the train is going to make time. They literally message you that the train is expected to make time. And I rolled my eyes so hard at that."
2023-02-1804 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | After the Banquet by Yukio MishimaClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "And the hypocrisy of that entire proceeding because politicians per Japanese culture. Specifically when you talk about the conservative politicians, which are the kind of people who generally end up being in power given the social structure of the country, social discipline based structure of the country that is Japan. The hypocrisy of the full, I would say, event of a politics who preaches and espouses these high ideals goes on and has an affair even though all of that."
2023-02-1205 min
Binati Sheth@Binati_Sheth | Writing Understandable Finance with Vinod Bhat, the author of The Financial Independence MarathonClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "In the description, you will find the link to read the financial independence marathon, so feel free to click on it and get the book onto the first question, which is, tell us a little something about yourself, Vinod, and then we will go into the nitty gritty of the writing within your book."
2023-02-1101 min
Binati ShethThe Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "The Kulkchitra youth happens to think that women are pious creatures, right? How naive are we? So I really liked that the characters in the book are represented, including the female characters, to be, like, conniving and cruel and strong and just multi dimensional. The way I laughed, I genuinely laughed out loud. When Dropathy describes Yudishtar I don't want to spoil this line, but, like, the way she is roasting her husband's in her head, it's funny, right?"
2023-02-0905 min
Binati ShethKnow and Kill your DarlingsClick here to reply to @Binati_Sheth "Today on Writing and beyond. Let's kill Darcells or Kyd. Open it up to kill your darlings. I like to call this know your darlings. Because to kill the darlings, you have to know that the darling exists in the first place for you to load your guns, aim and shoot. Kill your darlings is a common cliched advice that experienced authors will give you. And I know you want to roll your eyes at me right now."
2023-02-0805 min
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2022-04-0700 minBinati ShethWelcome to Personal Podcasting with SwellWelcome to this personal podcast powered by Swellcast.com. To reply to an episode, please visit the reply link in the episode. To learn more, or start your own personal podcast, please visit www.swellcast.com.
2022-04-0700 min