NIKESH SHUKLA | BOOK TRUST
Writing tips tend to veer between the prescriptive (‘have your main character reveal a dark secret on page 30’) and the elusive but empowering (‘THERE ARE NO RULES. DON’T GET IT RIGHT, GET IT WRITTEN. SHOW, DON’T TELL’). I chaired a writer’s group last week and all the writers were at different stages of beginning to put pen to paper, fingertips to keyboard or mouth to iPhone text dictator and they asked me for tips on how to write, how to get published and how to finish something and get it published. I gave them my tuppence. Tuppence here is code for: I told them what I did, for what it was worth.
I don’t fetishise the writing process as much as others may do. I don’t need to sit there and write it down on paper first, then transcribe it. I don’t need to feel the curves and strokes of the words. I write wherever I can on whatever I can find.
And that’s where cloud computing really helps me.>>READ MORE
