Ratika Deshpande
Objects that speak to or for us
Letter Writing as Activism
Little, delightful games
How to make the world a better place
Antidote to Perfectionism
2025 Letter
Freshly dropped flowers
Non-American and non-English books
Just the tail
What is my work?
Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida
The call of a new notebook
One has to choose optimism
Reading grief
Lately, I’ve been thinking of writing a novel…
Picture books and encyclopedias: The earliest books of my life
Why it’s called courage
Adulthood is all about controlling your emotions
Some things I haven’t done in a while
Swings
Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World, edited by Henry Hitchings
Substitutes
Short films and such
Refining the TBR
Ways of organizing your book lists
Walking to fall in love with a city
The art we make as children
A few fun links
A picture, expanded: The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş
Order from chaos
Little surprises
Letters: A Reading and Watching List
Clockwork, magic, and secrets: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
To go into another room and make pictures
कौन है तू सखी?
The Stormlight Archive: A Fanfiction Reading List
Thursday Reading List
The Austin Kleon Catalogue
A loss of a quote is no big deal
I could have been writing letters home
I miss being around books
Must all children have erasers?
The joys of studying
The Book List
Three videos that helped me recently
More notes on paper-based memories
Money, meaning, memory, and legacies
Letters and notebooks as mnemonic devices
Spreading the word is part of the job
If money wasn’t an issue, would I still be writing?
Time, stretched out
Some notes to return to a creative routine
Scattered Readings
वो दुष्ट चांद
पत्ते की अभिलाषा
I miss home
#Inktober Day 17 – Ornate
#Inktober Day 16 – Blunder
#Inktober 14 and 15 – Trunk and Ragged
Writing rules
#Inktober Day 13 – Drink
#Inktober Day 12 – Shredded
#Inktober Day 11 – Sting
#Inktober Day 10 – Sweep
#Inktober Day 9 – Heavy
#Inktober Day 8 – Reckless
#Inktober Day 7 – Starfish
#Inktober Day 6 – Pierce
#Inktober Day 5 – Deer
#Inktober Day 4 – Murky
#Inktober Day 3 – Crown
#Inktober Day 2 – Weave
#Inktober Day 1 – Mustache
The grief of leaving home
The will of the paper
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
A list to rescue you from writer’s block
Journal girls and resisting AI with pen and paper
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain