Deep Ties

  The Process of Writing - #BlogchatterA2Z When I was young, (literally, and not just at heart!) the stories that fascinated me the most were the Greek legends that were replete with adventure, fantasy and magic realism. The Greek heroes and heroines appeared larger than life, their monsters horrific, and the jealousy and the passion of their gods made them seem more childish than humans. The Iliad and the Odyssey were replete with adventure and action, but what drew my eye was the little back stories and the myths that came alive within the lines of the two epics, just as intriguing as those within our own epics – The Ramayana and The Mahabharata.                                                                                 The New York Public Library - Unsplash When I was prepa...

  My Book World I still remember the first time in my life I could not put a book down. It was my Enid Blyton phase, and the book was ‘The Secret of Moon Castle’. Eerie dim lit rooms, clanking suits of armour, paintings flying off the wall and eyes moving within portraits… all designed to leave me awake, my heart in my mouth all night.  The next morning would find me racoon-eyed, yet desperately needing to go and scare my friends with the story that had left me so.                                                                                               World of Blyton   Of course, I was no stranger to tales that sent a chill up my little spine. Before I began to decipher words on my own, my maternal grandfather, a litterateur in his own...