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Today brings a great news to us, Indians. Mr Aravind Adiga, 33-year-old, former Wall Street Journal and Time writer hailing from Chennai, bagged this year’s Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger . The author was awarded the prize money of 50,000 pound sterling at the award ceremony held in London’s Guildhall. Mr Adiga, who currently stays in Mumbai, is the third debut novelist to win the most prestigious Booker Prize, which is awarded yearly to the best of fiction works from Commonwealth countries. Other debutantes to win the award include Arundhati Roy in 1997 for God of Small Things and DBC Pierre in 2003 for Vernon God Little . Mr Adiga is in line with other Indo-Anglican writers adorned by the Booker, such as Sir Salman Rushdie, Sir V S Naipaul (who has Indian roots), Ms Arundhati Roy (who happens to hail from my very own state, Kerala), and Ms Kiran Desai. Mr Adiga was born and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He emigrated to Sydney, Australia and later st...

Today, I was awed by the news story by Time Magazine about David Wroblewski, whose best selling fiction book, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is currently on the New York Times best seller list, currently at the number one position. Time says Wroblewski is one of the first computer programmers to be a best selling fiction writer . This has some fascination for me, since I was a computer programmer myself and have quite a bit of affinity toward fiction writing. Wroblewski’s novel concentrates on a mute, who takes refuge in Wisconsin woods after his father’s death. The novel was chosen by Oprah Winfrey through her most popular Oprah Winfrey Show. And that might have proved to be a factor behind the success of the novel. Edgar Sawtelle is a character brewed over a decade. Stephen King and Richard Russo already endorsed this work. The work was conceived during the 90’s when Wroblewski enrolled to an MFA program. The great success can be attributed to the long-term work he put into the...

[Dedication to famous Nobel-prize-winning Russian writer, Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn , who died yesterday.] Today, I am limited by an assignment to edit the textual content of the Web 3.0 company, ZCubes's website . I will post the details of this project once done with it through the Today’s Special widget. For now, please read a short story from P G Wodehouse, the master of comedy. Thi story, 'Tom, Dick, and Harry' was published in 1905. Tom, Dick, and Harry by P G Wodehouse This story will interest and amuse all cricketers, and while from the male point of view it may serve as a good illustration of the fickleness of woman and the impossibility of forecasting what course she will take, the fair sex will find in it an equally shining proof of the colossal vanity of man. "It's like this." Tom Ellison sat down on the bed, and paused. "Whack it out," said Dick Henley encouragingly. "We're all friends here, and the password's 'Po...

Today’s time for posting a full post is limited. Hence, here is a more experienced author’s article on writing. Robert Louis Stevenson, one of my favorite writers, had written a book on writing, The Essays in the Art of Writing. Here is the first article from that. Lenin On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature An article from Robert Louis Stevenson There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys. In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discovers an abhorrent baldness, but rather from the fault of our analysis than from any poverty native to the mind. And perhaps in aesthetics the reason is the same: those disclosures which seem fatal to the dignity of art seem...

My CuteWriting is approaching its hundredth post. Today’s is the 99 th . I am in active redesign and testing of the blog. By the hundredth post, you will see a completely remodeled blog, which loads faster than this, with a more professional WordPress design template . Today, due to the time constraints, I won’t be able to post a more detailed post; so, please bear with me and read this short story by O Henry (William Sidney Porter) , The Skylight Room . The Skylight Room By O Henry FIRST Mrs. Parker would show you the double parlors . You would not dare to interrupt her description of their advantages and of the merits of the gentleman who had occupied them for eight years. Then you would manage to stammer forth the confession that you were neither a doctor nor a dentist. Mrs. Parker's manner of receiving the admission was such that you could never afterward entertain the same feeling toward your parents, who had neglected to train you up in one of the p...

Creative writing is the focus of CuteWriting, mainly. Besides that, it covers grammar, punctuation, writing style, language, literature, and fiction. To be a good writer, unleashing your creativity is very important. The fact that novels are not as popular as other media like films should not disappoint writers. It is the craft one is born with that one should care for. If you are a born actor, you may become a star; if you have singing talent, you may become a singer; and if you have writing talent, you may become a writer. Writing Style In order to hone your writing skills, you should fine-tune your inner voice (precursor to your own writing style). In On Writing , Stephen King mentions that one’s writing style is usually not inborn, but acquired. One continuously works on his style and builds up his unique. For this, many great writers suggest reading a lot. When you read other writers, you will naturally build a knack to write like them. This is the first step of de...