S.G. Basu's Blog

Children are funny little things. One moment they’re young and demanding every minute of your existence and you crave for a moment of time you could have that’s truly for yourself, and the next, they’re all grown and ready to fly away, and you’re left wishing you could go back to those days when they… Continue reading Letting Go

The final book of The Lightbound Saga (200,000+ words, 650+ pages) is now complete. And I wrote this mammoth in a little over 3 months. I am happy, proud, and most of all so thankful to have brought this series (6 novels, 800,000 words, 3000 pages in total) to a satisfying conclusion. My middle-grader, the… Continue reading Done! Done! Done!

Since the last time I posted, the world has become a different place. The last two years, in particular, have changed everything, my life, my everyday habits, and everything and everyone I knew. While I have been lucky enough to…Read more ›

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“You are what you settle for.” ~Janis Joplin

“You don’t find time to write. You make time.” ~NORA ROBERTS

“Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.” ~ELIZABETH BOWEN

“The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.” ~JOHN LE CARRE

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ~ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY

Do you know that feeling you get when the wee little thing you’ve nurtured for years is suddenly all grown up? One second you’re up in the clouds, heart puffed up with pride, and then, suddenly there’s this weird emptiness…Read more ›