My thoughts on writing? Well, here it goes. Don't trust all the writing advice you receive. No, I'm not saying that they are all worthless. But don't take every piece of writing advice seriously. For instance, long back I read one and it went like this: 'if you don't know how your sentence is going to end, don't start at all.' For a while, I held that one in high regard. Then, eventually, I realised that it actually didn't hold water. Or at least as much water as I thought it did. Because whenever I sat down to write with that advice in my head, I barely wrote anything at all. You don't need to have a clear course ready for your sentence to travel. Sometimes, it will take its own path and take you along. Heard those award-winning writers say that they didn't exactly know where their novel was going but they let it go? That's the magic of writing. So, I no longer worry about how my sentence is going to end. I'm more than happy if I can write one word, then connect it to another, and another all the while looking back and asking myself: is it coming along?

P.S. There's a piece on my profile called 'Roach in the refrigerator'. When I wrote the first sentence, "First appeared the antennae, quivering", I had no idea where it was going. But then it did travel. And travelled well to my satisfaction. So, let me reiterate, writing is all that matters. The first word, the first sentence... And even before you realise, you'll be there on the highway to joy!