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I am stickler for reading writing books written by the writers themselves. I have read three of them, On writing by Stephen King, Writing Badly is Easy By Amitava Kumar and Novalist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami, along with the description of a writer’s day and other related stuff in the books and blogs by Tim Ferris.It’s fascinating to hear writers talk about the gruesome writing rituals they follow, the ways in which they developed their writing skills, and how they overcame numerous hardships to become masters of their craft....

Development Activity Task Adding Ambient music to the meditation session Option 1: Create a local app state, store the value of the widget state in that app state. Use the app state in the meditation section Option 2: Create a page parameter, Pass the widget state in the page parameter and use the page parameter in the meditation session So far, having tried both of these methods, I am not able to get the looping music to work....

Defining the Constraints Feature Constraint: The time spent on an activity should be minimal, yet the feature/activity should offer relief from day-to-day stressors during that period. Feature Constraint: The activity should seamlessly integrate into daily routines. Developmental Constraint: I should be able to reuse already developed features such as the login flow, registration flow, meditation timer, and journal. Cost Constraint: The development cost should be limited to less than 50,000 INR....

Objective of the App Time for a short story About 1 month back, I got the idea of creating an application that helps in conducting an effective meditation practice. The problem that I was trying to solve was that sometimes after a meditation session my mind was on overdrive and I felt overwhelmed by my thoughts. To channel and understand my thoughts I started the practice of writing a journal. I would use pen and paper to do journaling and the practice helped me to calm down and structure my thoughts....

Book Summary Simplistically, This book talks about the journey of an old man in the sea and his efforts to catch a fish. On a deeper level, The book is an allegory of what it means to pursue something. The sea is the vast expense of the world, where one should not venture too far. The huge, deep part of the sea is unpredictable with all manner of dangers like Sharks and unstable sea....