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BREAKING THROUGH BREAK!

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Recently I came across the term creative thinking in one of the psychology books. It had many sub-points and one such certain point grabbed my attention. The term was INCUBATION . Now what does incubation exactly mean? It is not at all a strenuous, arduous or onerous Psychological term. It is a phase which everybody feels somewhere sometimes. And I certainly felt that this is it what I was feeling; I was going through. A writer, an artist, a chef, a songwriter, lyricist, editor, any creative person, or just a scribbler like me first starts working on the project but after working for hours we may not get that vibe, that aura, that solution, that exact thing which we are in search of for our project. This initial failure leads to the incubation stage. In this stage we firstly start to avoid doing our work or even may think of giving up. We start focusing on other things which catch our attention and which are usually unrelated to the problem. (Wise words of self experience!) But initi

Around The "WORD"

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It’s so difficult to write.... Everyone feels this, sometimes. From great authors, legends, editors, poets, columnists, freelancers, scribblers like me and also those who can’t write their answers in exam. Almost EVERYONE..... In my case, it’s just that I have many things in my mind. Many things which I have to describe, narrate, recall, recount, express....  I decide – Yes, this is it and I’m going to write it now. But after really and finally writing it I feel – What the hell, how awful have I written, was this that I wished to write actually, I’m so bad at it, blah, blah, blah...... This is the time when frustration covers up. It is said that if you want to write, if you want words to come to you easily from the core of your heart, if you want to dress up the naked blank pages with your designer writing than you have to READ a LOT.  From classics, bestsellers, flops, good ones & bad ones, interesting as well as boring you have to read them and see how they are, what is in them t