STORYTELLER

Prateep Roy

FEW WORDS, BUT BANG ON!

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  • Why most business books fail quietly, leadership books don’t.

    (Photo by Takashi S on Unsplash) Most business books expire quickly. They are tied to:• A dynamic market cycle• A technology phase, which keeps changing• A moment of success, which is non-ending, the beginning of the road Leadership books last longer—for a simple reason. They deal with:• Judgment under uncertainty, mitigating problems silently• Decision-making without Read.

  • My unfair advantage as a ghostwriter

    Photo by Hanna Lazar on Unsplash I didn’t come into ghostwriting from content or publishing. Before this, I spent 28 years as an entrepreneur, co-founding and running a Market & Social Research Firm. That means:• I’ve pitched and lost clients quite often• I’ve hired, fired, and rebuilt teams. Some of them are now running their Read.

  • Why most founders shouldn’t write their own book?

    Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash Most founders who try to write their own book never finish it. Not because they lack intelligence or experience. Not that they don’t have the desired skill or time.But because they are too close to their own story. When you’ve lived something for 20–30 years:• Everything feels important• You Read.

  • Is the creator economy a hype?

    Photo by Maxim Tolchinskiy on Unsplash It was time for me to understand the creator economic dynamics, having understood the evolution of a writer to a creator. I thought much of it was hype when I earned less than a dollar on Medium after posting articles consistently for a couple of months. Consistently! I (now) Read.

  • Are ghostwriters creators? Yes, they are!

    Photo by Richard Stachmann on Unsplash Is it a silly question? No, it’s not. The social media platforms have confused visibility with creation. The term creator has been diluted and is often used to mean ‘someone who posts under their own name’. It’s more of a platform-driven definition. The question is where ghostwriters fit into Read.

  • Why are writers known as content creators?

    Photo by: Grigorii Shcheglov on Unsplash I wondered, as I belong to a faraway yesteryear generation, trying to catch up with the supersonic Gen Z. And then, I searched and researched. I found the answer, the logic, and the way ahead for me in my endeavor as a ghostwriter. As I expected, the term “content Read.

  • What if Bollywood (Hindi) movies didn’t have songs?

    I would have been the worst hit ☹ I think they were/are the lifeline of the movies, and they were/are my lifeline too. Like those movies, I couldn’t do without humming those songs (mostly from the 1950s and 60s) every moment of my life. Since the release of the first Hindi film, Raja Harishchandra, in Read.

  • Expectation. Can we not get rid of this word?

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    Imagine the word ‘Expectation’ vanishes from your life. You have no expectation from anyone. Won’t you be happy? Won’t you be relaxed and cool about your life? One may argue that life without expectation will be boring and monotonous. True! That’s the flip side. But look at the pros. You have no expectation from your Read.

  • Continuing with my second innings.

    My second innings began somewhere around 2015-16 when I decided to write down those stories that I used to ‘day dream’ about. From my childhood days I used to concoct stories in my mind, most when I was idling. I used to concoct different stories ranging from crime thrillers, romance, political rebel, solving mysteries, and Read.

  • A writer’s woes?

    Struggle, struggle, and more struggle! The struggle is not related to my ability or inability to succeed in getting published, or make or not making money out of it, the struggle is to write! I am back after a hiatus of about two weeks. I got into the mess called ‘life’, again, and the intricacies Read.