Writers

Inside the Writers Room: Where too many cooks don't spoil the broth, but only make it soupier

The streaming boom in India has encouraged creators to build and maintain a writers room for every project, which has brought much-needed focus on harmony of diverse voices.

What the epidemic of poor writing across media highlights about the vital role of editing

We have always taken the English language and made it work for us, in an admirably jugaad-filled manner. Now, the lines are blurred. It's good writing vs appalling writing, and bad editing plays a major part in the latter.

Following Harper’s open letter arguing for openness to 'opposing views', debate focuses on signatories, furthering divisiveness

Writers and intellectuals in the US signed a letter calling for tolerance toward opposing views. Following debate has revolved around choice of signatories.

From Shonda Rhimes to Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge, what exactly does a showrunner do?

The showrunner is the auteur of series television: a writer-producer who has ultimate management and creative responsibility over the whole show, reporting only to the production company or studio.

Academicians, writers, journalists condemn FIRs against Miyah poets: 'Labels will only sharpen Assam's brittle faultlines, create conditions for ethnic, communal violence'

On 10 July 2019, an FIR was filed against ten Miyah poets and other activists from Assam under five different sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Telecommunications Act for a poem titled Write it Down, I am a Miyah written by senior Miyah poet, Hafiz Ahmed. The FIR accused the poets and activists, amongst other things, of depicting the Assamese people as 'xenophobic in the eyes of the whole world' and posing a 'serious threat to the Assamese people as well as towards the national security and harmonious social atmosphere.'

Avengers: Endgame writers address fans' dissatisfaction with treatment of Black Widow's character arc

Avengers: Endgame writers said that black Widow's character arc could be justified best at Vormir

Gauri Lankesh murder: Fear among writers is now unidentified and undefined, says author Shashi Deshpande

Some time ago when I was speaking to senior author Shashi Deshpande, she had made a comment that the present situation was "scary". It is not a term she uses often

Amazon opens first brick and mortar bookstore in New York, to launch 13 more in United States

Amazon now sells everything from designer clothes to groceries. It launched brick and mortar bookstores in six other cities starting in its hometown Seattle in 2015.

YourQuote: Startup founders move to Himalayas to build 'Instagram for writers'

How about a space for writers, just like we have Instagram for photos? Well, that's exactly what Ashish Singh and Harsh Snehanshu thought as they started their journey to build YourQuote.

21st Century writers are developing their skills with the help of Twitter

Microblogging site Twitter has equipped 21st century writers with the necessary skills, including tough self-editing, to thrive in the face of emerging technologies, according to a recent study.