Vikram Chandra Archives

Feb16
"From China to Brazil, There's Always a Detective Story" : How To Use Pulp Fiction Influence in Your Writing
"[F]ancy talk of protecting the good and destroying evil and seva and service would elicit only laughter. Even among [cops], this was never to be spoken about. But it was there, however buried it may be under grimy layers of...
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Feb15
"The most valuable thing a writer can have is time" : How To Balance Your Day Job and Your Writing Life
"There is a certain pleasure we take in thinking about how bad it gets, Sartaj thought, and then in imagining how it will inevitably get worse. And still we survive, the city stumbles on."That's a hardboiled line from Vikram Chandra's... Continue Reading
Feb14
"Write The Book You Need To Write" : How To Write A Long Novel
You don't see too many 900-page books anymore--they are a tough sell to a world swamped with web pages, magazines and 24-hour news. After carrying around Vikram Chandra's new novel Sacred Games for three weeks, I remembered the lovely feeling of... Continue Reading
Feb13
"I Was on a Mission" : How To Plan for a Creative Writing MFA
"We are built like this only, to see apparitions, to construct a vision of the world inside this lonely palace of bones, to live in this dream and be terrified of dying out of it, to suffer this nightmare made... Continue Reading
Feb12
"It Operates in Our Lives Like a Soundtrack" : How To Use Popular Culture in Your Fiction
"A face floated above the staggered roofs, huge, luminous brown eyes that went and came from behind the parapets, larger than any of the windows, and there was a gleaming brown touched by blue light, half-open lips and swirling hair,... Continue Reading
 


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