Akhil M Sharma
Books and essays. Non-fiction you can use, fiction you can't forget.
I'm Akhil. I write from Granada, a city that has been holding writers for centuries — Lorca grew up in its gardens, Cervantes crossed its bridges, Washington Irving slept in its palace and woke up changed. I don't compare myself to them; I just try to deserve the rooms I work in.
My non-fiction is what I've learned from living — often the hard way, often from books that refused to leave me alone. My fiction is what the non-fiction can't say.
One letter a week. Seven books on the way. You're on time.
Unfold
Fifteen books, fifteen stories, one argument about how we actually learn. Written for people who are tired of reading the same ideas in different packaging.
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All essays →Answer their point first. Yours goes last. That is the whole skill.
Two people take turns producing sentences and nothing passes between them. The fix is a sequence, and the reason it fails is attention.
We finally have one example of creation. It has an org chart.
Creation by many, with specialisation and levels of authority, is the older and more widespread account. It is also what the only observable case looks like.
We are not living our lives. We are rendering them, frame by frame.
A life is not experienced as a continuous thing. It is single frames and a story we wrote to connect them.
Writer from India, living in Granada.
I have seven books on the way — the first, Unfold, is a distillation of fifteen books on growth told through the stories from my life where they actually meant something. The second is a collection of short stories. After that: three novels and a trilogy.
I also run a small agency and am building an app. But the writing is the work.
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