Category: Fiction and Society

The Novel, Novella or Short Story?

Published May 25, 2017 by lrsharma

The Novel, Novella or Short Story? A novel is clearly a much more complete story than either a novella or a short story can ever…

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Intriguing Women: An Extract

Published March 6, 2017 by lrsharma

Intriguing Women: An Extract: The following is the shortest story from the collection, Intriguing Women, my second story collection. It is Flash Fiction, a genre…

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Human Nature and Literary Fiction

Published January 15, 2017 by lrsharma

Human Nature and Literary Fiction https://www.amazon.com/Tailors-Needle-Lakshmi-Raj-Sharma-ebook/dp/B00AO448UU/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484454019&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Tailor%27s+Needle Human nature is a part of Nature’s various properties, like beasts, stones and trees. It is like nature’s…

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Literary Fiction at Christmas

Published December 20, 2016 by lrsharma

Literary Fiction at Christmas Christmas can rejuvenate you. It is a time when you think of the Lord, about the family, and about the spirit.…

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Visiting Oneself

Published December 12, 2016 by lrsharma

Visiting Oneself

Visiting Oneself Writing is a calling that invites one to keep visiting oneself; to keep in touch with one’s inner being. Most people in society…

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Reading to Overcome

Published December 8, 2016 by lrsharma

Reading to overcome There was a time when one went to the Gita, the Ramayana, the Bible or another religious text with faith that it…

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Women in America have Misread my Short Stories

Published November 19, 2016 by lrsharma

Women in America have Misread my Short Stories About half of the women in America have misread my short stories entitled, INTRIGUING WOMEN. They have…

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Who can be a Literary Author?

Published November 6, 2016 by lrsharma

Who can be a Literary Author? Recently a student asked me how to write successfully. He had tried to write a novel and short stories…

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The Tailor’s Needle has everything that makes a great film

Published October 8, 2016 by lrsharma

The Tailor’s Needle has everything that makes a great film I began my writing career as a dramatist. Each year I was asked to write…

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A Point About Narrators

Published September 21, 2016 by lrsharma

https://www.amazon.com/Marriages-Made-India-Lakshmi-Sharma-ebook/dp/B0085COD1W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474426201&sr=8-1&keywords=marriages+are+Made+in+India A Point about Narrators For a novelist like me, a narrator is a subject of vital importance. Even though I am not one…

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