Thanks a lot Hari and Venkatesh! Really appreciate the feedback. @Venkatesh - You're right about the second piece! I'm trying my best to apply Beginner's Mind to that :D
Regards, On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Venkatesh H R <[email protected]> wrote: > Advaith, I enjoyed the piece for a number of reasons but mainly because t > here's a freshness to it that you won't find in many edited pieces. An > editor > might have been tempted into retitling your piece as "7 reasons why > learning the > guitar taught me more about life". My objection here is not the listicle > itself, > that's a format like any other format with strengths and weaknesses. > Rather, my > point is that sometimes in over-editing a piece, it loses its > uniqueness/essence. That is not a problem with your piece. > Usually the next big challenge for a writer is not so much the first piece > as it > is the second piece. Good luck with that. I look forward to reading more > of your > stuff. > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 1:26 AM, Hari Shenoy [email protected] wrote: > I play the guitar at home to entertain myself and occasionally play for > > friends when I've mustered up enough liquid courage and i wanted to let you > > know that this is a well written piece that should motivate more people to > > pick up an instrument. There's very little that brings as much > > satisfaction. Thank you for sharing and hope to read more of what you've > > penned down. > > > > > > > > On 22 Mar 2017 4:40 pm, "Advaith Mohan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi everyone, >> > > >> > After years of wanting to write, I finally manned up and wrote a short >> > > piece >> > > <https://medium.com/@advaithmohan90/what-learning- >> > > the-guitar-taught-me-about-life-f9c6d5b8a942#.2lihruexb> >> > > on the life lessons I got from learning the guitar. >> > > >> > I would love to hear your feedback as I'm looking to make writing a regular >> > > practice. >> > > >> > Regards, >> > > Advaith Mohan >> > > >> > > > > > > H R VenkateshTow-Knight Fellow 2016, New YorkCo-ordinator, Hacks/Hackers > New > Delhi > Ph: +1 646-874-9924Twitter: @hrvenkatesh >
