Gathering Tree Inc.

25/03/2013

When writing the story of your life, don't let someone else hold the pen - unless if that someone is a GT Ghostwriter.

06/03/2013

Many of us don't start or finish the book that could make you leave your current job. Come on to Gathering Tree, a place where every writer gets a chance.

After being paid a Rs 5-crore advance for his new book, author Amish tells NDTV he was once rejected by 20 publishers and never thought he'd see his book in print.

05/03/2013

The Orchid-Eye



the thin line of germination!
stems tall…
slips through a crack
and lulls
the oozing sign of life
to drip
on a flower
in the mist.

(c) dipalle' parmar

04/03/2013

My 4 year old at the alter a few days back, eyes closed and hands folded in prayer - chanting feverishly: "I always want to be who i am, I always want to be who i am..." Nope, no one taught him that. I asked who taught him that and he said, "I like it that way."

My Prayer now : Help me always let him be who he is.

20/02/2013

If there is something you are dying to do.

Live ONLY enough till you can do it.

Then die.

08/02/2013

We pick up a book with gingerly and first look at the cover for a long time, then flip to see the back - all suspended in a sense of awe. Mystified in that moment by that book, any book, we are perhaps wondering what will THIS book do to my mind, my imagination, my body, my future? Will it show me a whole you way of being human or reveal to me the secret of why i am who i am or enthrall me into an adventure which will take away all sense of time and space from me? Anything is fine so long as it is taking me away, into and beyond the boundaries of what seems real or unreal to me. A book can and has always changed my life in ways i have never been able to recognize it again. Even if its been a children's book or a cook book. Has it done to yours? How?

06/02/2013

Here's a project i am working on - Anthology of REAL LIFE, True stories (with name/place changes) on Separation, Divorce, Re-start a new life due to separation, divorce from a spouse, life partner, love. I am looking for 15 stories to make an anthology. Those interested please write to me at [email protected]

06/02/2013

For update of the 100-thousand poets for change, reading on the 1st of feb 2013 please visit -

http://www.100tpcmedia.org/100TPC2012/2012/08/dipalle-parmar-and-open-space-pune-india-dipallegmail-com/ -2319

100 TPC BLOG — 2012 -

05/02/2013

Some trivia fun for the day -


http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/men-and-women-literally-see-the-world-differently

A new study shows that the sexes really do see the world differently. Men notice small details and moving things while women are more sensitive to color changes.

05/02/2013

Preliminary Selection of Screenwriters' Lab 2013 is now open.

Revised application process -
Apply before March 1, 2013 with your synopsis.
Short listed participants will then be asked to submit their scripts by June 2013.
Six participants will be declared in the month of August 2013.


http://www.filmbazaarindia.com/programs/screen-writers-lab/

The Program In keeping with the mandate of promoting the development of the Cinemas of India, the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) in partnership with Venice International Film Festival, Italy, conducts the Film Bazaar Screenwriters' Lab.

04/02/2013

Hello IDEARMS, is the muse asleep on your shoulder? Maybe it was waiting for you to stop 'acting' busy , and step into the world of ideas. Think of at least one paragraph that will make a good beginning, middle or end of a story... think of the most absurd set of images to put together... make the muse work for its credit. IDEARMAGEDON!

02/02/2013

Global Movement started by Michael Rothenberg. www.100tpc.org