Lecture on - The Road Less Travelled

Topic of Speech:The Road Less Traveled (Perks and perils of choosing a unique career)

Speaker Name: Dr. Anurag Shourie

Speech Outline:

The need for a writing space and the tools required.

Project Management and the need to breaking up of Tasks

Settling down on the BIG idea.

The outline construction.

Deriving the schedules & deadlines

Procrastination is important.

Eliminating the minor and major distractions.

Conducting the research. IMPORTANT!

Deciding a Target Group and Thinking reader-first.

Writing a compelling opener.

Filling the story with conflicts and tensions, to make it appealing.

Removing the editorial mind while writing the first draft.

Surviving through The Marathon of the Middle.

Writing a resounding ending, deciding on terms of the emotions.

Becoming a ferocious self-editor.

Publishing - the need to find a good publisher 

Profile - A poet at heart, an author by choice and an anaesthesiologist by default. He is the author of India’s first Medical Thriller- ‘Half a Shadow’. He has degrees in medicine and hospital management in his kit, but love for the written word in his soul. An ardent Ruskin Bond fan, his short stories and poems have been published in national and international anthologies. His poetic wares are on display at his blog - The Voiceless Soliloquy (dranuragshourie.blogspot.in). He can be reached at sdranurag9@gmail.com. You can follow him at @dranuragshourie (Twitter) and /shourieanurag (Instagram). He is currently employed as a Global Safety Officer with a multinational CRO.