Fiction, poetry, and essays by Yogesh Malihttps://yogeshmali.com/https://yogeshmali.com/poetry/let-this-darkness-be-a-bell-tower/https://yogeshmali.com/poetry/let-this-darkness-be-a-bell-tower/Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you…Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:37:34 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/begin-again/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/begin-again/All good things come to end some day. But you start again. You begin again. That’s the life. Fall brings the falling of leaves and…Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:24:43 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/poetry/heavy/https://yogeshmali.com/poetry/heavy/That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God had…Fri, 29 May 2026 09:11:40 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/poetry/redemption-song/https://yogeshmali.com/poetry/redemption-song/Finally fall. At last the mist, heat’s haze, we woke these past weeks with has lifted. We find ourselves chill, a briskness we hug ourselves…Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:01:14 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/thinking-in-ai-age/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/thinking-in-ai-age/AI continues to change the landscape across industries. A lot of users are using tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. These tools are not fool…Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:22:16 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/science-fiction-in-current-times/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/science-fiction-in-current-times/The world is in strange place at the moment. There are wars (at least media reported), not being in those war torn countries, you will…Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:02:15 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/on-truth-and-courage/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/on-truth-and-courage/In all the narratives, truth is the first thing that dies. Courage is the next. Every side is ready to justify what is right and…Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:50:36 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/2025-and-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/2025-and-writing/Another year is coming to an end and here I am, reflecting on my writing. It hasn’t been the greatest of the year as far…Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:59:31 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/loss/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/loss/Some losses are so personal and deep that time can rarely heal them. All you can do is to let the time alleviate that pain.…Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:00:08 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/maut-tu-ek-kavita-hain/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/maut-tu-ek-kavita-hain/मौत तू एक कविता है मुझसे एक कविता का वादा है मिलेगी मुझको डूबती नब्ज़ों में जब दर्द को नींद आने लगे ज़र्द सा चेहरा…Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:00:55 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/speak/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/speak/Speak, your lips are free. Speak, it is your own tongue. Speak, it is your own body. Speak, your life is still yours. See how…Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:59:37 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/start-somewhere/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/start-somewhere/I start somewhere. The words don’t always flow. But I start somewhere. It’s been long I have sat down and put some words on the…Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:32:05 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/perhaps-the-world-ends-here/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/perhaps-the-world-ends-here/The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live. The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on…Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:59:13 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/a-time-to-talk/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/a-time-to-talk/A Time To Talk When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still…Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:35:02 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/still-i-rise/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/still-i-rise/You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll…Mon, 19 May 2025 01:58:54 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/phule-and-ambedkar/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/phule-and-ambedkar/In some of India’s darkest hours, only Mahatma Jyotirao Phule and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar could have accomplished what they did. Social reform is never…Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:34:24 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/alone/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/alone/From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring—…Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:44:19 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/freestyle-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/freestyle-writing/Write. You write that comes to your mind. Do not think. It’s the problem. The words do not flow always. You might think and that’s…Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:37:36 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening/Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his…Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:33:06 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/review-of-writing-in-2024/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/review-of-writing-in-2024/Every year, I try to reflect to understand what I have written, how much I have written and if I am improving in some direction.…Tue, 24 Dec 2024 10:07:25 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/poetry/i-like-to-see-it-lap-the-miles/https://yogeshmali.com/poetry/i-like-to-see-it-lap-the-miles/I like to see it lap the Miles – And lick the Valleys up – And stop to feed itself at Tanks – And then…Fri, 29 Nov 2024 03:14:47 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/acquainted-with-the-night/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/acquainted-with-the-night/I have been the one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in the rain – and back in rain. I have outwalked the…Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:03:01 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/where-do-i-go-from-here/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/where-do-i-go-from-here/The busy schedule has broken my habit to write daily in last month or two. I am still figuring out the right time to write.…Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:47:15 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/nothing-gold-can-stay/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/nothing-gold-can-stay/Nature’s first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf.…Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:46:37 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/raw-thoughts/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/raw-thoughts/Some days, you want to write and nothing comes to your mind. All ideas are stuck somewhere. And then you go for a walk or…Wed, 24 Jul 2024 07:23:53 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-summer-day/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-summer-day/Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean — the one who has…Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:58:27 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/beyond-books/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/beyond-books/Over the last few years, my views about school and college have changed. They continue to evolve as I see the school from different view.…Thu, 30 May 2024 19:35:02 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/books/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/books/Books are these things that we have created that have driven our centuries, our society forward. There are either people who are obsessed with books…Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:57:20 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/fall-in-love-ray-bradbury/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/fall-in-love-ray-bradbury/Fall in love and stay in love. Explode. Don’t intellectualize. Get Passionate about ideas. Cram your head full of images. Stay in the library. Stay…Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:15:49 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/perspectives-in-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/perspectives-in-writing/Understanding different perspectives in your writing or someone else’s writing is one of the harder mental tasks. In the end, when we read or write,…Wed, 28 Feb 2024 02:49:28 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/tu-khud-ki-khoj-me-nikal/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/tu-khud-ki-khoj-me-nikal/Tu khud ki khoj me nikal Tu kis liye hatash hain Tu chal tere wajood ki Samay ko bhi talash hain Jo tujhase lipati…Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:53:28 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/poetry/if-only-we-had-taller-been/https://yogeshmali.com/poetry/if-only-we-had-taller-been/The fence we walked between the years Did bounce us serene. It was a place half in the sky where In the green of leaf…Sun, 31 Dec 2023 23:17:25 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/500-miles/524-cst-to-thane-a-short-story/https://yogeshmali.com/500-miles/524-cst-to-thane-a-short-story/Disclaimer: This short story is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to anyone is merely a coincidence. This short story is dedicated to the city…Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:49:41 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/on-war-and-peace/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/on-war-and-peace/From the moment, we have evolved as humans, one thing that has remained common is the war. War is the ego price that we pay.…Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:21:49 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/on-ambition/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/on-ambition/Ambition has got a bad reputation. It’s not necessarily required to live, but having an ambition goes a long way to have a meaningful life.…Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:01:18 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/beyond-moon-and-mars/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/beyond-moon-and-mars/With the recent success of the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3, what should be the next goal? ISRO has always been an organization with…Sun, 27 Aug 2023 10:39:01 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-road-not-taken/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-road-not-taken/Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one…Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:52:13 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/his-journeys-just-begun/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/his-journeys-just-begun/Don’t think of him as gone away his journey’s just begun life holds so many facets this earth is only one. Just think of him…Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:19:15 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/being-a-writer/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/being-a-writer/Let me start this post by saying that there are no secrets to being a writer. To be a writer is to write. Writing how…Sun, 28 May 2023 09:17:08 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/ruskin-bond-and-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/ruskin-bond-and-writing/Growing up I listened, watched, and read many stories from Ruskin Bond. There was always that feeling of melancholy in his stories. They were simple,…Sun, 30 Apr 2023 05:49:22 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/trains-and-writing-about-trains/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/trains-and-writing-about-trains/One constant subject of my writing has been trains. I always find trains fascinating and metaphorical to the life that we spend on this planet.…Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:23:25 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/some-writing-quotes/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/some-writing-quotes/I never know beforehand what I’m going to write. There are writers who start writing only when they have the book in their head. Not…Sat, 25 Feb 2023 21:43:09 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/chatgpt-ai-and-the-future/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/chatgpt-ai-and-the-future/We have been using chatbots for some time now. But this new chatbot ChatGPT has been creating waves since November 2022. It’s using some advanced…Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:20:43 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/write-as-if-there-is-no-failure/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/write-as-if-there-is-no-failure/Most of the writing struggle comes from doubting oneself. Every writer goes through that doubt and knows somewhere they are not perfect. Their writing will…Sun, 25 Dec 2022 13:50:48 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/writing-tips/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/writing-tips/Writing Tips from various writers Remove everything that is not part of the story – Stephen King If you intend to write as truthfully as…Fri, 25 Nov 2022 13:58:37 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-philosophy-of-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-philosophy-of-writing/What is my philosophy of writing? Why do I write? How do I write? Writing is not only about stories and characters. Stories are a…Sun, 30 Oct 2022 10:02:02 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-lake-ray-bradbury-short-story/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-lake-ray-bradbury-short-story/Writing a short story is a different challenge compared to writing a novel. Short stories do not have the freedom to give every detail about…Sun, 25 Sep 2022 07:51:56 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/freedom/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/freedom/What does freedom mean to you? What does it mean to live in a free country? How do you live in a free state? Freedom…Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:59:04 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/america/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/america/The gold of her promise, has never been mined Her borders of justice, not clearly defined Her crops of abundance, the fruit and the grain…Sun, 03 Jul 2022 21:10:36 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/trusting-the-unconscious/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/trusting-the-unconscious/For any writer to write, he or she must trust the unconscious and let that unconscious guide the writing flow. There are different ways writers…Mon, 27 Jun 2022 03:27:29 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/writing-with-power/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/writing-with-power/Writing is a craft. It takes hours and hours of deliberate practice to master the writing. Imposter syndrome is a common phenomenon among writers. Even…Tue, 31 May 2022 18:18:23 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/gujarat-a-short-story/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/gujarat-a-short-story/Walking onto a platform in a Mumbai suburb on a weekday morning is like an achievement unlocked on Foursquare. The intense Tuesday morning sunlight at…Fri, 29 Apr 2022 09:56:27 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/on-god-and-godmen/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/on-god-and-godmen/India is a land of billion gods, but trillion godmen. Every nook and corner, there is a god and then there are a godman convincing…Wed, 30 Mar 2022 11:18:55 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/war-and-peace/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/war-and-peace/We are living in a different time period. All the talks about the war were futile till the real war started. One must admire the…Mon, 28 Feb 2022 02:24:29 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/review-of-writing-in-2021/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/review-of-writing-in-2021/We are in 2022 and I want to look at how I did with writing in 2021. It seemed like a long year. Even with…Sun, 02 Jan 2022 23:32:48 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/trains-and-travels/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/trains-and-travels/Train travel is romantic. Personally, the joy of being on a train can be compared to being that to a child who hasn’t deciphered the…Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:01:37 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/random-thoughts-on-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/random-thoughts-on-writing/I write simply. Some days, I sense that I lack impactful vocabulary. To write well is to think well. Here are my random thoughts on…Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:57:17 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/find-the-truth/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/find-the-truth/With fake news rampant in the current social media world, it is becoming hard to find the truth. How do you find the truth then?…Sun, 31 Oct 2021 06:41:33 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/living-a-good-life-essay/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/living-a-good-life-essay/How do you live a good life? There is no answer. If you ask anyone, they might tell their experience. But they don’t know either.…Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:48:52 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-songs-of-farewell-novel/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-songs-of-farewell-novel/Yes, are you ready to hear about my upcoming novel – The Songs of Farewell? The original plan was to release in December 2020, but…Sun, 29 Aug 2021 21:11:40 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/birth-and-the-beginnings/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/birth-and-the-beginnings/Birth and the beginnings are incredible experiences for humans. As much as we know the inevitability of death, we don’t celebrate the randomness of the…Sat, 31 Jul 2021 09:19:50 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/how-to-deliberate-practice-for-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/how-to-deliberate-practice-for-writing/In this post, I want to talk about a few strategies that you can use to improve your writing skills. How do you do deliberate…Tue, 29 Jun 2021 09:09:15 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/long-distance-view-vs-short-distance-view/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/long-distance-view-vs-short-distance-view/Recently, I was reflecting on this thinking model long distance view vs short distance view. Most of our thinking is based on what we consume…Sun, 30 May 2021 05:01:49 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/free-flow-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/free-flow-writing/In this post, I want to show free-flow writing and how it can help you with your writing skill. The current climate is grim, especially…Mon, 26 Apr 2021 06:36:34 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/short-story-ideas-with-a-twist/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/short-story-ideas-with-a-twist/One of my main ways to improve writing is by writing a lot of short stories. How do I come up with these ideas? Why…Sun, 28 Mar 2021 23:58:14 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/how-to-write-by-jerry-seinfeld/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/how-to-write-by-jerry-seinfeld/If there is a comedian that I appreciate the most, it is Jerry Seinfeld. So naturally, his writing advice would be something I always look…Sun, 28 Feb 2021 04:13:49 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/groundhog-day-a-writers-perspective/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/groundhog-day-a-writers-perspective/Groundhog Day – that movie from 1993 is a classic. But as a writer, I find that movie even more endearing, charming, and enthralling. What…Sat, 23 Jan 2021 13:41:16 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/writing-with-rhythm-is-an-art/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/writing-with-rhythm-is-an-art/Other day, I was reading a book and wondered what keeps me reading a book. Why I read Ray Bradbury’s books in so detail. Reading…Sat, 26 Dec 2020 09:17:37 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/schools-during-a-pandemic/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/schools-during-a-pandemic/With each passing day, we are realizing our systems can’t handle the current pandemic. How can we improve schools during a pandemic? Everything has moved…Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:18:55 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/poetry/some-science-fiction/https://yogeshmali.com/poetry/some-science-fiction/The chance is the remotest Of its going much longer unnoticed That I’m now keeping pace With the headlong human race. And some of…Wed, 23 Sep 2020 07:36:55 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/science/why-the-scientists-are-raving-about-life-on-venus/https://yogeshmali.com/science/why-the-scientists-are-raving-about-life-on-venus/If you have read the recent news about phosphine and the life on venus, the scientists are saying that there is alien life on Venus.…Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:33:21 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/reading-poetry/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/reading-poetry/Why we should be reading poetry? How does it affect our writing as a writer? What are some of the great poets? There are a…Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:43:35 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/science/understanding-the-turing-test/https://yogeshmali.com/science/understanding-the-turing-test/What is the Turing Test? Why are we concerned with the Turing Test? Understanding the Turing Test has been important to prove if we can…Tue, 04 Aug 2020 07:13:54 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/freedom-of-expression/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/freedom-of-expression/A society that doesn’t guarantee freedom of expression never sees the light of progress. Freedom of expression is fundamental to form a society that wants…Sat, 18 Jul 2020 08:34:16 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/self-editing-for-writers/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/self-editing-for-writers/The first draft is all about finding the story. The real writing begins after the first draft. Most writers have different processes. In this post,…Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:44:06 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/on-becoming-a-writer/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/on-becoming-a-writer/“If you don’t have a book about writing as a craft, you are not a writer.” That’s how things move in the writing world. A…Thu, 18 Jun 2020 04:42:03 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/self-publishing/gamble-of-self-publishing/https://yogeshmali.com/self-publishing/gamble-of-self-publishing/Self-publishing is a boon to many writers who would have struggled to publish. We can argue about the pros and cons of self-publishing. Here I…Sat, 30 May 2020 11:46:09 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/self-publishing/deconstructing-marketing-for-writers/https://yogeshmali.com/self-publishing/deconstructing-marketing-for-writers/In the self-published world, if writers hate one thing, then that must be marketing. Marketing is hard, it is a lot of work. Marketing is…Mon, 11 May 2020 00:20:45 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/pandemic-and-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/pandemic-and-writing/As a science-fiction writer, an apocalyptic scenario is in the imagination. And I’m sure writers throughout the history who lived through hard times, had evidence…Sun, 19 Apr 2020 23:45:50 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/the-songs-of-farewell/the-current-state-of-my-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/the-songs-of-farewell/the-current-state-of-my-writing/So I was going to post about the projects that I have been working on. As I continue to edit my first novel The Songs of…Sun, 29 Mar 2020 03:17:54 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/short-story/and-sea-will-return-you/https://yogeshmali.com/short-story/and-sea-will-return-you/A train has a poor memory. It goes from one destination to another without remembering anything, without needing to remember anything. Life flashed through when…Mon, 23 Mar 2020 04:22:06 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/notes-from-zen-in-the-art-of-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/notes-from-zen-in-the-art-of-writing/Every year, I re-read the book Zen in the art of writing by Ray Bradbury. The book is essentially about the tips a novice and an…Mon, 16 Mar 2020 06:19:57 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/science-fiction/futuristic-inventions-and-technologies/https://yogeshmali.com/science-fiction/futuristic-inventions-and-technologies/Once I found a magic lamp and when I rubbed that magic lamp, a giant Genie came out of it. I was surprised, but he…Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:18:11 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/story-or-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/story-or-writing/One of the greatest mysteries in writing is if your story should be great or your writing should be great. So how to learn the…Tue, 21 Jan 2020 06:02:29 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/upcoming-novel/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/upcoming-novel/I have been busy writing my first full-length upcoming science fiction novel – The Songs of Farewell. Writing a novel is a monumental task. You…Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:10:29 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/science-fiction/a-self-conscious-machine-reality-or-imagination/https://yogeshmali.com/science-fiction/a-self-conscious-machine-reality-or-imagination/To understand what a self-conscious machine is, we will delve into Artificial Intelligence. We can live in denial and stop it, but it is everywhere.…Mon, 06 Jan 2020 06:24:08 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/goodbye-year-2019/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/goodbye-year-2019/It’s that time of the year when we are ready to say goodbye. We celebrate, we contemplate, we make new resolutions, we think about our…Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:01:04 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/how-to-use-metaphors-in-your-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/how-to-use-metaphors-in-your-writing/If you are a writer, you must have used one or another metaphor in your writing. Even as a reader, you must have come across…Fri, 27 Dec 2019 04:52:24 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/self-publishing/5-things-i-learned-from-self-publishing-a-book/https://yogeshmali.com/self-publishing/5-things-i-learned-from-self-publishing-a-book/In the last two years, I have published two books 500 Miles and Blind Alley. Both books are a collection of short stories. One reason I…Sun, 08 Dec 2019 09:47:32 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-science-in-science-fiction/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/the-science-in-science-fiction/As a writer, when you write a story, there are elements of the story that you want your reader to feel real. What are the…Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:26:28 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/why-i-started-writing/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/why-i-started-writing/At the beginning of 2015, I didn’t know where I was going. I wasn’t motivated to do anything other than my 9-5 job. Don’t get me…Fri, 15 Nov 2019 06:09:34 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/how-to-craft-a-great-story/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/how-to-craft-a-great-story/Every story has elements, certain elements that make that story unique. Crafting a story is a skill. There are also multiple ways to craft a…Sat, 02 Nov 2019 09:50:17 GMThttps://yogeshmali.com/writing/what-is-your-writing-process/https://yogeshmali.com/writing/what-is-your-writing-process/What’s your writing process? This is a question I try to revisit often. I have read On Writing by Stephen King, It’s been a good…Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:08:51 GMT