Nitin Raghuwanshi

Hey #WritingCommunity ✨ For the first time ever, the first 3 chapters of my book Journey of Destiny are now live! I’m a 20-year-old BTech student who just started writing fantasy. These chapters are raw and full of heart. Read them here 👇 (link in bio)

@HJames_Writes Every single time you hit 75% of your work its happen, it’s the classic writer's curse, but i have faith in my writing. how do you usually handle the itch to rewrite?

Writers, do you ever get three-quarters through your story and realize you already want to revise it? 🤔🤨

@spiralingangel0 the moment you stop letting other decide what best for you and start enjoying your life the way you want.

At what point should u start living life?

@sylawinget writing. the kind no one ever sees — where the thought that's been loud all week finally finds a sentence and just... quiets down. cheaper than therapy. messier too.

What’s cheaper than therapy??

the burning isn't because the writing is bad. it's because the version that lived in your head — before the words came — was something else entirely. closer. and then you wrote it, and something got lost in translation. ai skips that translation. that's the real tell. does that gap ever go away for you?

a telltale sign of ai is if it’s published. real writers want their writing burned.

@_Zyravibes honestly? I think I could — but there'd be a moment on day 3 where I'd sit somewhere beautiful and feel the weight of having no one to turn to and just say "look at this." that part scares me more than the loneliness itself. have you actually done it?

Be honest for a second: could you travel alone for a month with no friends, no partner, just you ??

ND1: 3 months, local. ND2: 9 months, outside your state. that's not a progression — that's a completely different weight. not just academically, but personally. being sent away for 9 months isn't a school posting anymore, it's a life adjustment. and "I don't know who to complain to" — that's the line that really hit. that's what it feels like when the system just drops it on you and there's no actual person accountable. the burden exists, it just has no address. where are they sending you?

@nitinauthor On top of that, last year's posting of my ND1 was 3 months with 2 locations, the Ministry of Heath and a PHC. This year's posting is 9 months outside my State!! Honestly, I don't know who to complain to really. I posted my school's calendar earlier.

Good morning my amazing authors, writers, avid readers, reviewers, book lovers and friends out there. How's it going? Checking in. Yesterday I was stuck in editing my school's project research Chap 3. Not easy really, n our exams is next week!! 😭

@klhicks912 giving a kid a book before summer is like handing them a door — I grew up disappearing into stories, and honestly, that's what eventually made me want to write one. what kind of books do you usually pick for them?

I am thrilled that I again have the opportunity to provide free books to the kindergarteners at Clay Elementary School today. Why? Because kids lose access to libraries during the summer. So if I can help get kids a book to read, then I will.

wait — your supervisor is writing official letters to the Ministry of Health AND Primary Health Care for an ND 2 project? that's not a school assignment anymore, Gloria. that's a real public health study. two schools. government bodies. field visits. all while exams are next week. honestly? most people would've quietly fallen apart by now. the fact that you're still standing — still going — says a lot about who you are. you're carrying way more than your level is supposed to handle, and you're handling it

@nitinauthor Like for real. My supervisor is gonna write me two letters. One would be submitted to the Ministry of Health in my State, n the other to the Primary Health Care in my study area. Then I'll be handing questionnaires to students in two schoolsss. I'm just an ND 2 STUDENT!!! 😭

visiting locations yourself to hand out questionnaires — that's not a school project anymore, that's actual fieldwork 😭 I know that staring-at-it feeling too well — my novel chapters do the same thing, like the words are just sitting there judging you. and honestly? getting corrected a lot just means the work is getting sharper — even when it doesn't feel like it. what's the research topic — what are you actually out there collecting data on?

@nitinauthor Swears, I'm at the point of losing my mind Nitin. I just kept staring at it. I've been corrected a lot. N worse? I'll hv to visit the locations myself to hand out questionnaires! 😭

never tried audiobooks yet, but as someone who writes — I think it absolutely counts. maybe even differently. when you read, you voice the characters in your head. when you listen, someone else's interpretation layers over the story. that's not less. that's just a different relationship with the same world. what kind of books hit hardest for you in audio?

ik half the people on here don’t think it counts as actually reading but i’ve been really into audiobooks on here. whether that means laying in bed closing my eyes and listening or reading my physical book and listening. it’s been hitting

no word count, no schedule — just the story pulling me in at odd hours. when the pull comes, I write. when it doesn't, I wait. honestly not sure if that's discipline or just trusting the process — curious though, do you find goals help you stay consistent, or do they ever end up fighting the writing?

When you’re writing, what do you generally set as your daily word count goal? If you don’t use a word count, do you set any other goals for yourself?

@SusanSavageLee1 the best worldbuilding is the kind you feel before you see. the moment a reader stops to admire the detail — you've already pulled them out of the story. do you think the rule changes by genre, or is it universal?

How much worldbuilding is too much in a novel? An excessive amount of detail with no clear purpose IMO #writingq #WritingCommunity

@LunaDeNuit_ that feeling sits with you for days — I know it as a reader. it's actually part of why I started writing. kept wanting worlds that refused to end. which book left that emptiness in you the most?

The hardest part of reading is accepting that eventually there are no pages left.

@sharm42453 love. stay. live. cherish the people beside you, keep your heart positive, and actually live your days — not just get through them. what are yours?

you meet your 18 year old self, you’re allowed 3 words. what do you say?

@Keekeebooks 12 books in half a year — that's a reader who means it 📖 I'm actually on the other side of this right now — writing my first novel — so I love hearing what pulls someone all the way through. what keeps you turning pages?

I've read 12 books this year so far.

genuine question. was there ever a moment something you were building shifted from "just an idea" to "wait, this is actually real"? for me it was today, drawing a map on my iPad at 9am. what was yours?

there's something about drawing a world by hand. I've been writing these characters for months. they've bled on this soil, chased answers across its borders, gone silent in cities I haven't even named yet. the moment I drew it out, everything became real in a way writing alone never did.

54 chapters in. I never once drew the world my characters live in. today I finally did. rough, half done, coastlines still figuring themselves out. but this is where Journey of Destiny lives.

@muheediva01 and it's not even blind optimism — it's just that genuine people can't imagine not being real, so they don't think to look for the alternative in others. been on the receiving end of that lesson a few times. does it change you, or do you find yourself staying the same anyway?

I think genuine people often assume everyone else is genuine too.

@sharm42453 my mom — never once gave me a recipe though. just 'add until it looks right' took me years to realize that was the whole lesson

Men who can cook, who taught you?