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Writing Great Dialogue (Writing Fundamentals #7) with Free Workbook

Learn how to write powerful scenes with clear goals, stakes, conflict, and emotional depth. Watch the Anatomy of a Scene live lecture and download the free workbook.

Heena R. Pardeshi

December 17, 2025

Novel Writing Basics, Plotting, Writing, Writing Classes, Writing Workshops, YouTube Series

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Anatomy of a Scene (Writing Fundamentals #6) with Free Workbook

Learn how to write powerful scenes with clear goals, stakes, conflict, and emotional depth. Watch the Anatomy of a Scene live lecture and download the free workbook.

Heena R. Pardeshi

December 16, 2025

Novel Writing Basics, Plotting, Writing, Writing Classes, Writing Workshops, YouTube Series

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POV & Voice (Writing Fundamentals #5) with Free Workbook

Learn how Point of View and Voice shape powerful storytelling. Writing Fundamentals #5 with practical examples and a free POV & Voice workbook.

Heena R. Pardeshi

December 15, 2025

Novel Writing Basics, Plotting, Writing, Writing Classes, Writing Workshops, YouTube Series

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How to Write Descriptions in Your Story: A Complete Guide

Learn how to write vivid and compelling descriptions in your stories with our comprehensive guide. Discover tips, techniques, and examples from classic literature to help you enhance your narrative, reveal character traits, and set the perfect mood. Perfect for new writers looking to improve their storytelling skills.

Heena R. Pardeshi

August 28, 2024

creative writing, Writing, writing advice

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Why Your Writing Desk Matters More Than You Think

Discover the impact that your writing desk has on creativity, productivity, and the overall writing experience. This article explores how the design, organiz=sation, and ergonomics of your workspace can influence your mental clarity, focus, and creative flow. Learn why a well-chosen writing desk is more than just a piece of furniture—it’s a vital part of…

Heena R. Pardeshi

August 26, 2024

Writing

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10 Best Advice On Writing By Stephen King

Stephen King, for me, is the God of writing. He knows how to create believable characters that will make you feel all kinds of emotions (a wide, wide range of emotions at that), he creates genre-defining works and his stories are simply incomparable to any other on the planet (though I do know a couple…

Heena R. Pardeshi

July 4, 2021

Random

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5 Tips To Write Great Sentences

Everyone wants to write great prose, but most fo the times they ignore the very thing that makes up the prose itself – sentences! In order to write great prose, you need to be able to write great sentences and in order to write great sentences, first you need to know what kind of sentences…

Heena R. Pardeshi

May 31, 2021

Grammar Basics, Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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Guided Writing Groups – Write With Me

I present to you Guided Writing Groups – 3 Tiers of Exclusive Writing Groups! In all the workshops I’ve conducted and having spoken to over a 100 budding writers, the main problem with each and everyone’s writing, that I have been able to identify so far are two: lack of motivation (or simply not knowing…

Heena R. Pardeshi

May 24, 2021

Guided Writing Groups

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Writing Vlog #2: Writing A Short Story From Scratch

In this video, I have tried to capture my process of writing a short story. If you are a new writer or are curious about how writing is done, then I am sure you’ll enjoy this video. I you are a veteran writer then I am sure you will be able to relate to it…

Heena R. Pardeshi

December 24, 2020

Novel Writing Basics, Vlog, Writing

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7 Types Of Characters In Fiction

Characterisation is one of the most important elements of any story, long or short. If you don’t get the characterisation right, chances are that your story will fall flat on its face and no writer wants that to happen! So the best way to make sure that your story stays with the reader long before…

Heena R. Pardeshi

December 17, 2020

Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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Creating Realistic Characters

Creating Realistic Characters is an hour-long webinar on characterisation basics. I will be doing a follow-up Webinar with the advance techniques used for characterisation, so make sure you attend this one. Webinar Details Date: 5th December 2020Time: 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (can go on till 12:30 pm) – Indian Standard Time Platform: YouTube LiveLink to the…

Heena R. Pardeshi

December 3, 2020

Webinar

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5 Elements Of Plot In Fiction

Plot, one of the 5 main elements of fiction writing, is a term that confuses many new as well as veteran writers. When it comes to Fiction Writing, there is a big difference in the Story and the Plot. If you want to learn the difference between Story and Plot then read this article: Story…

Heena R. Pardeshi

November 30, 2020

Writing

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Storyboard A Novel in 5 Easy Steps

Storyboarding is a wonderful organising technique, that I feel, is highly underrated when it comes to fiction writing. It is a great tool to plot your novels and to put it all together in a coherent plot-line. I am an intuitive writer but working on multiple long-form fiction projects can be downright scary at times…

Heena R. Pardeshi

November 11, 2020

Novel Writing Basics, Plotting, Writing

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Decoding Horror Genre For Writers

Here’s the live stream of my 5th Webinar: Decoding Horror genre for Writers:

Heena R. Pardeshi

November 2, 2020

Webinar, Writing

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October Webinars

Hello, dear writers and readers. I am here with some exciting as hell news! I have two upcoming Webinars! Read on to find the details, timings and some extra exciting stuff! Webinar #4: Decoding Horror Genre For Writers In this Webinar I will be covering the following topics: What is Horror Fiction – The basics…

Heena R. Pardeshi

October 20, 2020

Webinar

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How To Write A Book Analysis

Analysing a book is too often confused with writing a book review. It is a very common misconception and one that needs to be busted especially if you are planning to become a writer or are one already. A book review is an informal way of sharing one’s thoughts about any book of the reader’s…

Heena R. Pardeshi

August 21, 2020

Articles On Reading, Novel Writing Basics, reading, Writing

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Prompt-Writing

Prompt-writing is one of the best tools for fiction writers. Period. You’ll find various definitions for it on the internet, but for me, it is simply what the name suggests: A topic around which a short piece of fiction is written promptly. Generally, the said piece of fiction is in the range of 100-1000 words…

Heena R. Pardeshi

August 2, 2020

Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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Fiction Writing Masterclass

Learn all about my upcoming online writing class and register for it to make it in the first batch of students.

Heena R. Pardeshi

June 21, 2020

Novel Writing Basics, Writing, Writing Classes

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Finding The Right Idea

I don’t think I have ever known, not even a single writer, who doesn’t get about a dozen ideas every day. But imagine what would happen if you’d start taking all of those ideas seriously? It’ll be chaos! So you get my point? As a beginner, you might feel the need, a very compulsive need,…

Heena R. Pardeshi

June 18, 2020

Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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Discovering The Writer Within

The first place you need to begin, especially while starting a long-form fiction project (or re-starting it), is to discover yourself as a writer – to find out what kind of a writer you are. Because unless you do it, you won’t know how to proceed further, especially once the initial flame of anticipation and…

Heena R. Pardeshi

June 12, 2020

Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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Character Profile Sheets (CPS) – Part 2

Character Profile Sheets are a great literary tool that help you in profiling your characters, especially the main characters of your story. They not only help you in being consistent with your character’s traits throughout your story or manuscript but also help a great deal in creating as well as painting the character arc you…

Heena R. Pardeshi

June 8, 2019

Novel Writing Basics, Podcasts, Vlog, Writing

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A Comprehensive Look At Literary Devices

As a writer, it becomes a necessity at some point or the other, to understand as many technicalities of the craft as possible. Whether you’re an intuitive writer or a deliberate one, there will be times when you’ll have to break the literary rules in order to create your masterpiece, but in order to do…

Heena R. Pardeshi

February 11, 2019

Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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The 4-Act-Structure: Introduction

As almost all the plotters would swear by, outlining a story helps a writer greatly in making sense of the story for the readers. We, as writers, know what our story is and how it plays out, the difficult bit is to put in into words in a systematic way and have it make sense…

Heena R. Pardeshi

January 21, 2019

Novel Writing Basics, Plotting, Writing

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Naming The Writer’s Unconscious – A Little Girl And Her Puppy

I always read craft books not once, but several times. I guess that’s the best way to really get the techniques and the wisdom they have to offer. Lately, I’ve been re-reading Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott and came across a concept, more like a paragraph or two, where author Lamott mentions about naming the unconscious: “My…

Heena R. Pardeshi

April 9, 2017

Writing

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What Is Writer’s Block? And 3 Things to Keep In Mind

There are a lot of people who don’t believe in the existence of Writer’s Block, but let’s face it, even though you don’t want to name it, there are periods of time in every writer’s life when you simply can’t write (no matter how much you want to!) You can call it a “bad phase”,…

Heena R. Pardeshi

March 16, 2017

Writing

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10 Questions To Help You Determine The POV(s) For Your Story

Choosing the main Point Of View(s) for your story is either the simplest or the hardest thing you’ll ever come across while writing your book. Determining the voice which narrates or unfolds your story is a tricky thing because if you select the wrong one your story is doomed. Sometimes (a few precious instances), you…

Heena R. Pardeshi

January 26, 2017

Podcasts, Writing

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Point Of Views (POVs)

Point Of View, casually known as POV, is one of the most important literary devices that is used in fiction writing. Determining the perspective from which the story is told is often the making or the breaking point of a novel. If you make a wrong decision, your readers will be highly disappointed due to…

Heena R. Pardeshi

September 16, 2016

Writing

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Freewriting – Everything You Need To Know

Freewriting is a very important prewriting technique that not only helps you to get over your writer’s block, but also to tap into your sub-conscience mind and see what all ideas and stories are hiding there. Most of the times, we get stuck while writing a story, or an article, and simply don’t know what…

Heena R. Pardeshi

August 3, 2016

Podcasts, Writing

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All About First Drafts

A First Draft is one of the most basic entities of fiction-writing and it lays the basic foundation of a novel. If you’re a writer then you probably might have come across this term more than a thousand times already, and if not then you’ve come to the right place. Just for the sake of…

Heena R. Pardeshi

July 15, 2016

Writing

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