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Suparna Chakraborti

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Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · Apr 17

#dailyhaikuprompt (pink)
April 17, 2025

Green hanging solo
Pink forms the majority
Clashing color scheme

#writing #haiku
#BlueSkyPoetry
#SkyPoets
#writingcommunity

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Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 8h

#dailyhaikuprompt (apple)
October 15, 2025

Vanilla ice cream
Hot, bubbly apple filling
Delectable pie

#writing #haiku #BlueSkyPoetry

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 11h

Bengali is the same, no articles, no saying I ate "my" breakfast (who else's breakfast would I eat? 🙂) Also inflections can replace prepositions.

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 13h

You've made me curious why the English is longer - is it the adjectives vs prepositional phrases?

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 3d

I responded because your message showed up in my feed, I'm not responding any further.

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 3d

It's the number written that way, hard to avoid.

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 3d

I'm also tired of YA books that all try to sound extremely colloquial - as if every teenager has the same voice.

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 4d

From an essay about hooks in stories - this clip seems to fit the mood for "welcome." #WIPSnips
#writingcommunity

When I pick up a book, I'm hoping to find a good introduction. I don't need to be thrown into the deep end of the plot. Use your words to immerse me (the reader) in the world you've created. Invite the reader into your story.

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Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 5d

#dailyhaikuprompt (straw)
October 10, 2025

Storms arriving late
Flooding the fields untimely
Straw not yet gathered

#writing #haiku
#BlueSkyPoetry

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 5d

My "horror" tends to be light - but I thought I'd give it a try!

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote a flash fiction for today (10/10/25).

Shattering Glass (Inspired by #Pentober 10/ shatter)

Flash Fiction/ Slice of Life

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Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 6d

I started writing an interactive fiction ("choose your own adventure" type story). I'm really enjoying writing in second person, without any specified gender or other characteristics of the main character 🙂
#writingcommunity

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you for sharing.

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 7d

Here's a short story I wrote this week if you'd like to take a look - it's about spending time with family & the things we learn if we pay attention.
💙📚 #writingcommunity

Retreat Into Silence

Literary Fiction/ Short Story (8min)

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Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 7d

I work on more than one (better for me) - different types of writing is best. I can't go directly from one to another, I do some activity besides writing in between if it's the same day.

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 8d

No problem! I'm interested in your question. Maybe, simplify your magic & other systems, then you're not having to tie together so much detail? You could try keeping the systems detail as simple as possible in the first draft, then see how much detail you can add before it's too much?

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Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 8d

I don't know if this will help you, but I do better when I keep idea generation & writing separate (vs people who start by sitting in front of the blank screen or page). Maybe divide the cognitive tasks of coming up with ideas & writing them down?

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Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 8d

Having the story in mind, and knowing it will take such a long time to write it out!

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Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 9d

Not OK for AI to decide.

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 9d

I know working in schools I've used noise reducing headsets for students - less than $400 but not total silence. Congratulations on retiring from the day job & having time for more writing!

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Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 11d

Liking things across many genres (vs fitting into one group)

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 12d

People used to entertain their friends with songs & stories, before it became an industry! It's wonderful when people still do that.

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 14d

#WIPSnips (river)
#writingcommunity

When Santanu met Ganga, he did not realize she was the river goddess. She appeared to him as a beautiful young woman. King Santanu asked Ganga to marry him, and she agreed, with one
stipulation. She would remain with him, as long as he spoke kindly, and did not question anything she did.

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Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 16d

Spring and fall - my brain feels less focused around the winter and summer solstice,

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 16d

Yes! Envisioning something different from reality, that's better than what we're doing.

Suparna Chakraborti @decidetoread.bsky.social · 16d

Real life feels dystopian, so reading about #dystopia is not a change of pace. I'm wondering if we will see a category of speculative/ science fiction #writing about people who have figured out how not to self-destruct (it should be basic, but at this point sounds like utopian fiction). 💙📚