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Deepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | Episode 6 - Writing for Young Minds/ The art of Storytelling and CreativityClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "If, as a children's writer, you can sustain their interest and make them wonder about the story, you have won the battle. There are certain themes that children revel in. Personal growth and transformation. Optimistic tales of good cheer. Believe believing in yourself, making good clean choices. The age old theme of good triumphing over evil. Secrets. Children love secrets and friendships. Children also love to see young heroes solving mysteries and problems themselves without the aid of adults."
2025-02-0912 min
Deepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | Juggling Genres: How to Find Inspiration across Fiction, Non- Fiction and PoetryClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "I read everything. Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something. So said Jesmyn Ward Hi friends. Here I am on my fifth episode juggling Genres how to find inspiration across fiction, nonfiction and Poetry I look at the unique challenges and rewards of working across multiple forms of writing with advice of transitioning between genres. A genre is a category of literature with a specific set of characteristics. It helps authors to describe the primary content and tone of their writing."
2025-01-1912 min
Deepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | The Art of Anthology Writing: Finding Your Voice in a Collection of StoriesClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. Beatrix Potter hi friends. Here I am with episode four of my Writing Journey, the Art of Anthology Finding your voice in a collection of stories in today's world, where lifespans have increased but attention spans have drastically reduced, short story anthologies are all the rage."
2025-01-0504 min
Deepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | The Power of Place (Setting) in ThrillersClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "For example, my psychological thriller Shadow in the Mirror, had chapter titles like Summer Heat, A Touch of Ice in Autumn and Dark, Icy Winter. This was actually a device which I used to create a sense of interest in my readers and to give a hint of the events within the chapter. Likewise, my short stories also depend much on the setting. The bewitched hour of twilight, where twilight denotes the mood of the characters. Love in the shadows."
2024-12-2204 min
Deepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | The Thrill of the Chase - Exploring Our love for Crime and ThrillerslClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "What comes easy can also be easy for a million other writers as well. It is important for a thriller writer to maintain his or her own style of writing and also to maintain the pace of the story. It should be pacey and racy enough to hold the interest. How important are the setting and the characterization? How many strong characters should a novel have to balance the yin and the yang? How many twists are mandatory to all these questions? I can only quote from my own books."
2024-12-0105 min
Deepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | Introduction to my Writing Journey - Why I WriteClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "Every man's story is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. This quote is by Hans Christian Andersen, one of the most prolific storytellers of all times. I am Deepti Menon and I would like to take you along my journey as a writer. Why do I write? Would you like the fact or the fiction? I dreamt to be a published writer. Fiction. The fact is that when I was 10, the green eyed monster took hold of me."
2024-11-2604 minDeepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | Happy 90th Birthday, Ruskin Bond!Click here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "Not only in India but everywhere in the world as well. I wish you all the very, very best. May your 90th birthday be wonderful. May all the years to follow be even better than all the years that have gone before. And God bless. May you and your writings go on forever. My name is Deepthi Menon and I live in Trishur, Kerala where again you have many, many, many admirers. So once again many, many happy returns of the day."
2024-05-1902 minDeepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | #AuthorStory | I would like to thank...Click here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "My family, my mother, my mother in love, my siblings, my nieces and nephews. Of course, all of them add on to this joy by just being there for me and just, by just appreciating my writing. And finally, I cannot leave out my friends, my online and my offline friends, my writer friends and my reader friends all wait for new books to come out so that they can pick it up and let me know what is happening."
2024-01-1302 minDeepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | #AuthorStory | My lessons for aspiring authorsClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "There are so many writers out there with such lovely ideas, and it is a good thing to have a writer circle, people who will tell you very, very frankly what they feel about your writing, what is good about it, what needs a little bit of change amendment. And I think if the criticism is positive, it is always good to take it, because sometimes you are so in love with your own work that you do not see the flaws or the pitfalls."
2024-01-1302 minDeepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | #AuthorStory | The moment that made it worth itClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "You. The one moment that always makes me feel that it has all been worth it is when I write the end. Because it is a culmination of a lot of hard work, a lot of thought, a lot of sleepless nights, and a lot of imagination running riot. So those two words, the end, always make the moment worthwhile. The other moment that makes everything worthwhile is when your editor gets back to you and says, well done. I think this book has come out well."
2024-01-1202 minDeepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | #AuthorStory | My process for writing a bookClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "I think that is the most interesting part of writing. Of course, there have been times when I have sent my manuscript to my publisher and editor, and they have also suggested changes, maybe to the storyline, changes to the style, changes to how the characters react in the story, and then I've had to redo bits again. In fact, shadow in the mirror was actually a blend of two stories which I had written. And finally I brought those stories together, the dance and the trance."
2024-01-1203 minDeepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | #AuthorStory | My toughest challenge in writing my bookClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "You need people to enjoy what you're writing, and you need people to believe in what you're writing. So in order to make this story believable and intriguing, I thought I had to put in a lot of hard work. The funny thing was that despite all that, I think this book did not take as much time as most of my other books had done earlier. I think maybe that was because I lost myself."
2024-01-1202 minDeepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | #AuthorStory | What inspired me to write this bookClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "But after much research, I did manage to get a story which I thought would go through and which would reach my readers. So I think the basic inspiration came from my publisher and the rest, of course, came from the fact that I had to write a book that was very different from all my earlier books because my first book, Shadow in the mirror, or rather my second book, Shadow in the mirror, was a psychological thriller."
2024-01-1202 min
Deepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | #AuthorStory | What first got me interested in writingClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "Hello friends. This is Deepti Menon. And I'm so happy to be back once. Well, once again, it took me a little bit of time, but then that's because I think I'm a bit of a fossil as far as all this goes. But now here I am. What first got me interested in writing? Well, I think it was the fact that I was born into a family of readers. My grand parents were readers. My father and mother were readers."
2024-01-1202 min
Deepti Menon@deepsmenon_7 | Defying Destiny: Nalini Chandran - a life sketchClick here to reply to @deepsmenon_7 "A-Y-A-H-I-R. How did you die? And when the glass went around in a more agitated manner, the answer shocked the girls. Tuberculosis. 14 days ago. The shadows were dancing in the background by now. Naldi's parents would be back soon and they would be very annoyed if they knew what the girls had been up to. A chase and lost lot hurried back to their homes as Naomi kept poring over what had been revealed so mysteriously to them."
2022-10-1505 min
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2022-08-0500 minDeepti Menon@Swell | Welcome to Community Podcasting with SwellWelcome to this community podcast powered by Swellcast.com. To add your own episode to the show, please visit the show website. To reply to an episode, please visit the reply link in the episode description. To learn more, or start your own community podcast, please visit https://www.swellcast.com.
2022-08-0500 min