Category: Creative Writing

Creative writing not published in book form

NaNoWriMo 2019: Day 23

I spent most of my time blogging and hardly got any time to write. Current Word Count: 35,355 Shabana Mukhtar

Tuk Bandi #1 (Urdu)

Note: Sometimes, I mix up lines from poetry and songs and it still makes perfect sense. Tuk Bandi is just for fun. Let’s see if the readers can identify the components 🙂

NaNoWriMo 2019: Day 22

It is such a trouble to be focused on the plot while you have a million other things to do. Today, I completed 3621 words. I still have a 1909 average to meet for next 8 days. Current Word Count: 34,728 Shabana Mukhtar  

NaNoWriMo 2019: Day 21

I am determined to reach the target. Today, I have worked exclusively for adding more to the draft, redrawn the timeline and hashed out more about each character. That’s not all. Every single break was utilized for writing more for my NaNoWriMo project, even though I was tempted to watch YouTube videos. Current Word Count:…

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NaNoWriMo 2019: Day 20

Writing 50,000 words comes down to 1667 words a day. It is not a big deal for me, I thought, because I write at least 3000 words every day, in one form or other. I hit 26000 words in ten days. It was a big deal and I thought I don’t need to rush anymore….

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Uff Haniya: Sample Chapters

These are the first few sample chapters from my book “Uff Haniya”. For reading the complete novella, buy it from Amazon.

Let NaNoWriMo 2019 begin

I participated last year and it was quite fun – to race against time and write 50000 words. It is not a small feat, but if I have to practice some discipline; I need this in my life. It is fun. For those who are new to the writing world, I encourage you to participate….

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