I have blogged for 2 years.Off and on.Mostly off.I was reading a lot .But writing a lot less.

Thinking about writing.Talking about writing.Then I  always had something coming up.In this writing and exercising was in the same boat.I spent the entire day thinking about doing one or the other.But always had an excuse.Definitely  important ones.

4 months back I wrote 2 posts a month on my blog. That too after thinking for days.

I didn’t think of writers block. Because I didn’t think I was a writer.

But I am a Bengali ,and all Bengali’s love to think they have a few untold stories in them.

Frankly speaking I started writing because my daughter was too young to understand the chatter in my brain.Plus I wanted to give my  darling hubby
a break from my rants.

Yes I rant when I don’t have stimulating book,company,events or any thing which my brain can feed on.That’s why I absolutely  fell in love with  my  Blogchatter BFFs . 

When you are all looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow , it’s fun to have some company.Sharing the gold is good too.Because it actually multiplies infinitely every time you share.

That’s the same with writing.The more I write ,the more I want to write.

It’s not easy.But now I know it’s not easy for anyone.

The best  part bloggers always have fun .Because whatever happens it’s a story right!

Like the time on Nabami, when I was standing in a crowded  waiting room at the Sealdah station  and writing a blog post on my  phone. It’s not my best .But I did it.

It helped drown out the noise ,dirt ,and the two-hour wait standing!Luckily( for me ),my daughter napped on her father’s lap.

Me tapping away on the phone.Rai sleeping.My hubby looking shocked (and a tad irritated ) that I was writing standing in the middle of a crowded room.That’s mad . But you need a little madness to want to share your thoughts with random  strangers right?

Then in July I did a Blogchatter half marathon daily chatter for 2 weeks.

#MyFriendAlexa challenge for 1 month in September where I wrote 15 posts in 1 month.Definitely more than what I wrote the entire year last
year.

I am doing a #Dailychatter challenge with Blogchatter again .The best part of this is , I am actually able to write everyday.The 500 word thing everyday is a good habit.Try it.

Whenever I read anything on writing it’s like eves dropping inside famous writers head.

I think of myself as work in progress .The following are a few famous quotes which help  me ,when  my   writing brain needs a little push or maybe a shove and some inspiration . 

24 Favourite quotes on Writing by writers

“What a writer brings to any story is an attitude…” John Gregory Dunne

Why you must write everyday?

You must write every single day of your life…You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear
books like hats upon your crazy heads….may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” Ray
Bradbury

About writer’s block…

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining…researching…talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is
writing.” E.L. Doctorow

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.” Doris Lessing

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Stephen King

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.”

—Larry L. King, WD

You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.

 John Rogers

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things about all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s
life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Stephen King

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens.

– Ray Bradbury

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway

Writing is like sex; you don’t have to wait until you’re an expert to begin doing it. ~ Anonymous

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

Richard Bach

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing.
Everything is useful to a writer, you see—every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Graham Greene

If you wait for inspiration to write; you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter. ~ Dan Poynter

Confused about  what to write?

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you’re afraid to write about.

 Cec Murphy

When do you fail as a writer

You fail only if you stop writing. ~Ray Bradbury

Why you should write?

If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.

– Kingsley Amis

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

– Philip Pullman

The pen is mightier than the sword and considerably easier to write with.

– Marty Feldman

The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

– Robert Cormier

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

– Ernest Hemingway

What is writing?

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

– Paulo Coelho

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am a grown up they call me a writer.

– Isaac Bashevis Singer

On Editing

The first draft of anything is shit.

– Ernest Hemingway