Ratika Deshpande
Ratika Deshpande
Ratika Deshpande
Hey there! I’m Ratika Deshpande (she/her), a writer, reader, student, and global citizen. My articles have appeared in Reactor magazine, Authors Publish magazine, Submittable, and The Learning Scientists blog. I earned my B.A. (Honours) in Applied Psychology from the University of Delhi. Born in Indore, I studied in Nagpur and New Delhi. Currently, I’m pursuing an M.A. in Education. I love fantasy books, Studio Ghibli movies, Indian classical music and cooking.
Latest Posts
When the revolution against the Crescent Empire for limiting access to magic got out of hand and the fires reached the Great Library of Alyssium, the librarian Kiela and Caz–a sentient spider plant–took as many books as they could with...
From the draft–a list about making lists to write. I don’t have any one method of writing. Sometimes, I show up and just start. Sometimes, I cannot work without a list, such as when writing craft articles. Sometimes, I use lists based on...
Almost all my notebooks come with pages at the front in which I note down basic identification information: name, phone number, email, address, blood group, emergency contact (always my mother). On the first blank page, I write a quote...
I’ve been listening to the audiobook of Sarah Beth Durst’s The Spellshop–a delightful cozy fantasy about a librarian who returns to her home island after being away since childhood and stars a, well, spellshop–and brainstorming ideas for...
If you have some money saved up to buy books, I’d recommend getting physical copies of Grant Snider’s delightful collections of comics. I recently read the e-books of I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf, The Shape of Ideas, The Art of...