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knautiyal.bsky.social
Essays in Guernica, Electric Literature, Longreads, etc. Working on a collection about my search for home. www.kirtannautiyal.com
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Reading applications for a summer workshop, I'm reminded of my firm conviction that the care with which you write one sentence is the care with which you write any sentence. The first words of a personal statement usually tell me as much as a thirty page writing sample.

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Finished draft number five of my manuscript today. Lucky number five, is that a thing? Only took me seven years to get here. That's not too bad, right? Right?!

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Moving, imaginative, and inventive fiction written by and about the Indian diaspora (@anitafelicelli.bsky.social) electricliterature.com/13-books-by-indian-diaspora-authors-you-should-be-reading

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The book you give your friends when they ask you what kind of music you listen to and you don't want to say something as pretentious as "underground techno" so you say electronic and they reply, oh like EDM? What are your favorite books describing a subculture you hold dear?

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In this long season of revision, I repeat to myself, only half-convinced - I don't have to publish anything. I don't have to produce anything. I don't need any recognition. I just have to keep doing my thing. In silence. On my own.

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I'm a few weeks into the research for my piece on our unwavering cultural belief in "the power of positive thinking" to fight cancer. Overestimated how much of doing journalism was finding out interesting things & underestimated how much of it was ppl not responding to your emails 😅

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You have a baby & every other haggard parent you meet will tell you, "It only gets worse! Just wait till they're a toddler!" People have been telling me that everything only gets harder since the day I was born. But doesn't our capacity grow along with our challenges?

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