Main Index And About Me

Someone came up with the idea of creating an index of their articles on Medium and I finally caught up with it. Here is a categorized list of my articles which I will keep on updating as I write new ones.

Index: Authorpreneurship (60)

Index: Writing (66)

Index: Life (28)

Index: Productivity (23)

Index: Self Improvement (16)

Index: Travel Stories (24)

Index: Learning (19)

Index: Short Stories (6)

About Me (March 2021)

I am a Gen X who has quit competitive life to lead a creative life. Two years ago, I said goodbye to a six-figure income and became a full-time writer.

I write both fiction and non-fiction. With my fiction, I entertain readers who enjoy character-driven stories. With my non-fiction, I help other writers get better at their craft, self-publishing and marketing their work.

I live in Canberra, which is the capital of Australia.

I started my writing journey through a blog in 2018 and started writing on Medium in July 2020. In November 2020, I started a Substack newsletter A Whimsical Writer to help new writers establish themselves as authorpreneurs. In January 2021 I started a publication in Medium, Authorpreneur, to achieve the same purpose.

Although I always wanted to write, I was not good at it. Years ago, during a performance appraisal, my boss told me that the only thing that is standing between me and a senior-management role is my written English.

Rather than getting disheartened, I accepted the challenge and took writing as a hobby. But instead of concentrating just on business writing, I enrolled in a life story writing course where I started writing stories from my life.

Being a migrant I was worried that many of my childhood stories were going to be lost. My parents were getting old, my country of birth(India) was going through modernization and I was not visiting it often enough to keep the connection. I wanted to record my parents’ stories and my…