Write a story about someone returning to their craft after a long hiatus.

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“The untold Story” by Harsh Kakkar

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It had almost been two months since Nandu Maisnam was discharged from the hospital. Since the past two years Nandu had been waging a war against death. What made his disease more dangerous than any other was the fact that it was unknown to modern medicine. The doctors referred to it as an ‘abomination’.Nandu and his family resided in Asharikandi, which is a village in Dhubri district of Assam, India. His bloodline had been involved in traditional pottery since centuries. However, the profession was about passion and not privileges. Savi...

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“The View from Down Here” by Emily Wynne

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It had been a while since I had seen the familiar paper. The sheets made whooshing sounds, quiet and white as snow. My supplies were fanned out around my desk. It was the same, and yet completely different. It was because of Pax that I was even out here at all. Without him I would still be in my room, not in the basement that we had converted into a studio. A basement sounds like a dreary place to work, but it's not. It's just different. I picked up my favorite colored pencil, a coral color that I had used so many times it was almost a s...

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“The Struggling Writer Paradox” by Sharath Sriram

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"I wish I could," muttered the young man. "I know you can," said Jenna, kissing him gently on the forehead, "I will be back by 5 o clock cupcake, I can't wait to see what you have got." He muttered something nonchalantly as Jenna bid him goodbye for a day out with her friends. He had a whole day to himself but he couldn't help his helplessness. He had been negligent about his writing for four years, working hard on his science at Stanford. And now he was finding it simply impossible to start writing again. He felt his writing career was fi...

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“Photography: A RomCom (But Not Really) ” by Theo B

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My favorite hobby once upon what seems like a lifetime ago was photography. The way the camera angles created a scene, how light played a trick on the eyes, encompassing the model, creating color and beauty throughout one simple photo taken in a blink of an eye, and immortalized forever on my flash drive. Yet with all that passion used to take the perfect picture, everything else seemed less and less perfect as I constantly stared at my screen, criticizing and modifying and polishing every little detail. So, inevitably I realized that th...

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“Creative Minds” by Lara Heumann

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Their hands were shaking when they sat down at their desk. The new notebook was lying there, the pages still perfectly white, no ink splatter destroying its pureness. It had been a while since they sat down at their desk, eager to move the pen over the pages. It had been too long. Too long to remember how it worked. How to get words onto the paper in front of them. The chair was creaking under them. They stood up, stretched out their fingers, their arms. Glared at the chair. Like that stupid, old chair was ...

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“Andy's lesson ” by Charles Ombuya

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Andy paused and stepped back to look at his painting. He wanted to depict a cluster of mountains at the eve of a sunset. “So far so good .”He thought. Anyone could tell what it was but it still had not come out the way he wanted. Frustrated, he decided a break was necessary. He went outside and took a seat. As he inhaled the fresh air, the beautiful scenery as well as the chirping of birds echoing through the air he reflected back. He had just come from a long trip. It had been a rollercoaster. Andy had always wanted ...

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“The Bleeding Heart ” by Anuradha Dev

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The Bleeding Heart Those displays of concrete lives, real and fiction, have attracted me towards them since I was a child. As a child, when my mother wanted to take me shopping, I would cry and agree to go when she would let me visit the bookstore nearby. While she would be shopping for laces and utensils, I would drift off to my paradise. The musky smell of paper, shiny rainbow-colored covers pull me inside. I would look at those beautiful rows of glee, heartbreaks, and crimes. The sight gratified my soul in a way that...

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“Begin Again” by Amber Celen

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It’s a peculiar thing we do when we have a dream; we forget how to do the very thing we wish to do the most. For years, I have tried to muster the courage to return to my illustrious typewriter, basking now in the light of the morning sun. I have spent many nights dreaming up the worlds I could so eloquently create, if only I had the belief that I could accomplish such a feat. If only I could write as well as I imagined! If only I could turn the pages into adventures seen in the eyes of readers! Often, I would find myself distrac...

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“A payment due” by Christopher Wyer

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The room had begun to decay rapidly. The Writer tried to watch, but the sudden dilapidation of his second-story flat seemed to happen in between movements, in between blinks. There had always been mould and cracks in the paint, but in the past week since he had isolated himself, it had worsened. Black rot had crawled its way up the bathroom walls like a sinister hand, grabbing hold of the tiles and the floor. The bedroom walls were hued by a rusted crimson, the living room was constantly and consistently darkened by a substance not dissimila...

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“The Return of Witchcraft” by Thanuja Rajappa

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I woke up in an endless white room. “Hello, is anyone here,” I asked. No answer. I looked around the room and saw a large table. There was a small container, a flower, some leaves, a pair of scissors, and a sheet of directions. Something about it was familiar, but I couldn’t remember. Actually, now that I think about it, I couldn’t remember the last month of my life! I slowly realized that there was a piece of paper in front of me. Cut t...

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“Smoke and Ink ” by Glazed Donut

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The wooden floor creaked under the weight of the old man's heavy steps. It felt like the rickety wooden house would fall apart and break into a million specks, taking down the brittle skeleton of the house along with the aged, wrinkled man who lived in for ages. Who spent 65 years of his life devoted to writing his soul out. Every cobwebbed corner, every cracked glass window and every wooden creak had a story to tell. Mr. Lightwood was their voice.He had spent his life alone with the pen and the paper. It had been 10 years sin...

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“Victims” by Matt Jones

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At first she just sat there and wrote nothing, not a thing. Not one word stared back at her from the computer screen. Until she realised, glancing at the clock above and to her right on the bedroom wall, that almost three hours had passed.Shit, maybe this return to writing wasn’t such a great idea. Even when she eventually typed that first word, ‘I’, and followed it up with ‘hope’ a few minutes later, it all felt alien to her. Amy Lane had two published books under her belt – each had sold over 500,000 copies – and yet here she sat, at her f...

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“Beautiful Prison” by Lauren Gibler

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The rain quietly beats a steady rhythm against the rooftop. Leaves bend to the pressure of the water, only to release their hold and spring back. Over and over the process goes. There are no signs of the rain letting up today. Just endless hours of watery weather, and nowhere to go. There was once a time that even a good weather day would see me sit down to a computer and start bleeding out a story. Rain, sun, snow, it didn’t matter. There was always some sort of tale waiting just beneath the surface, be...

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“VIOLET WITHOUT” by Steph Reynolds

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Aida pushed her seat away from the cubicle and stood to gather the little personal belongings that she had placed on the table at the beginning of the day and threw them into her bag. She had only been working at the call centre for a week now, but she knew that she needed to practice her daily mantra on not getting comfortable on the job. Comfort kills, she thought to herself, as she walked with her coffee mug towards the sink and rinsed absentmindedly. Her coworkers paid her little attention as they passed by, and she found that recently i...

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“The Missing Page in the Book” by Monisha Jegadeesan

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Maya stared down at the sheet of paper in front of her. They were more tear stains on it than words. She crumpled the sheet and threw it into the trash can and let out a frustrated scream, trying to dispose of her angst in the process. Her father rushed in on hearing her cry. Maya looked at him with defeated eyes and said “I cannot, dad. I cannot write anymore. This is it. My career ends here.” Her father sat down next to her and held her until she quieted down. Alan McLean had been her favourite author since childhood. It was his b...

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Write a story about someone returning to their craft after a long hiatus.

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✍️ 185 stories

“The untold Story” by Harsh Kakkar

“The View from Down Here” by Emily Wynne

“The Struggling Writer Paradox” by Sharath Sriram

“Photography: A RomCom (But Not Really) ” by Theo B

“Creative Minds” by Lara Heumann

“Andy's lesson ” by Charles Ombuya

“The Bleeding Heart ” by Anuradha Dev

“Begin Again” by Amber Celen

“A payment due” by Christopher Wyer

“The Return of Witchcraft” by Thanuja Rajappa

“Smoke and Ink ” by Glazed Donut

“Victims” by Matt Jones

“Beautiful Prison” by Lauren Gibler

“VIOLET WITHOUT” by Steph Reynolds

“The Missing Page in the Book” by Monisha Jegadeesan

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Write a story about someone experiencing a lightbulb moment of writing inspiration.

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