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I am asked, with a frequency I have come to find wearying, whether the events of my novels "really happened...
There is a peculiar sickness that has crept into historical fiction...
dropping seeds all over the place
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Welcome… I’m New Here! Hit by a ton of word-shaped bricks
My name is Madhu. I am an Indian by virtue of birth and upbringing, and I live in Sweden (Stockholm) at the moment. I have grown up with books. My grandfather loved buying books and encouraged anyone between semi-interested to interested, to borrow from his collection. When they did not return... -
Craft Chat At vs To
I've noticed I sometimes use "to" when a reader corrects it to "at". But sometimes the correction doesn't sound right to me and I can't figure out why. Examples: While describing looking at paintings, I used both "at" and "to": "She stared out at us, holding a glass ball in front of her...