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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The paragraph that appears before the sentence that serves as the interval block of BID TIME A GOODBYE 😎 #WIPSnips #WriteSky #AmWriting #TimeTravel

‘No! No… no… NEVER! I can’t understand. I fucking can’t understand how this happened,’ Maya muttered, feeling the urge to lunge at the pictures, pull them off the wall, and throw them far away into the sea so they – and the stories they told – would not exist. She couldn’t bridge the connection at that moment – the events in her life that would have led to THIS. She could feel her legs turning to jelly, so she backed away from the wall and slumped down on the bed, exhausted.

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't know, I always laugh when reading this conversation between Maya and Nikhil 😂 #SundaySnips #WriteSky #AmWriting #TimeTravel

Nikhil shook his head, still stuck partly in disbelief. ‘Whatever, it is quite eerie. Imagine getting stranded in the past because you didn’t hold your partner’s hand while time-travelling to the present. Horrendous!’

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maya's own determination and her resolve that she'd somehow reunite with the love of her life 🥺 #WriteSky

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm pretty sure Maya, Leela, Jessica, Nikhil, and Anuj would do well in the world of Manifest series. They would surely change the narrative to one of time travel. #LitHodgePodge #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are so many worst things that happen to Maya in BID TIME A GOODBYE 😭 And yes, she overcomes each one of them 🥺 #WriteSky

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Day 23 of #TimeTravelAuthors She looked at the time on her digital watch – 11:10 AM. She typed the same time and waited for something to happen. Another screen popped up, asking her to stand still and look into the tiny camera fixed on top of the panel. #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I guess Maya Krishnamurthy would have slogged behind a screen 🥺 #WriteSky

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Day 15 of #TimeTravelAuthors Staying true to that tag, to the unwary outsider, their relationship appeared to be a flourishing garden with new flowers blooming each day. #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

breathe in, breathe out the sea waves ebb and tide along with me a new symphony forms in my mind #TankaThursday #tanka #KJDreamyPoet #poetry

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Day 9 of #TimeTravelAuthors Maya blew him a kiss, and Nikhil returned it with an eager ease that made her laugh. After hanging up, Maya suddenly felt heavy at heart. It was such an abrupt shift that surprised her. She realised she missed Nikhil too much, but that was not the only reason.

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Maya felt her whole body explode with unadulterated joy as the remnants of the previous night’s disappointment disappeared in the light of her newfound connection. #1LineWed #disappointment #WriteSky #AmWriting

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Day 27 of #TimeTravelAuthors My next is "I Music You", a transdimensional musical love story. It's still in the outlining stage. I have written the blurb, though 😅 Then I might write the sequel to BID TIME A GOODBYE and a contemporary Indian mythological romance novella. #WriteSky #AmWriting

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Every other instance of 'panic' in this book is a spoiler 🤭 #WIPSnips #WriteSky #AmWriting #TimeTrave

‘What is what?’ Leela thought. She turned around to see her co-passengers – a surprising number of them seemed to have paid attention to the announcement – whispering amongst themselves. It was clear that they had heard the panic in the pilot’s voice before the mic was switched off. Leela then swiftly turned around to look outside the window, wanting to find the balance.

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Day 25 of #TimeTravelAuthors Emojis my characters would use. Maya: 😍😱😤😭🫠🥲😌😏😡 Jessica: 🤓🫨🤨🧐🙂‍↕️😉😈👩🏾‍🔬 Leela: 😒😬😑🫤🤡🤐🌚🙎🏾‍♀️🐍 Nikhil: 🥰🔥🤩😲🫩😇🙃🕺🏾❤️‍🔥 Anuj: 🙂🫪🤔🤫😠🙄😵‍💫😴😎 #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Day 21 of #TimeTravelAuthors Okay, I don't know if this counts as a quirk, but there are a few scenes where Maya Krishnamurthy turns her head so quickly that she cricks her neck 😂 #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Maya Krishnamurthy has to somehow return to her original timeline. Only then she would feel completely at peace. #WriteSky

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Day 17 of #TimeTravelAuthors Yes. Not anyone. Something travels to the future in BID TIME A GOODBYE, but I shouldn't reveal it here 👀 #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Miss those pandemic evenings when I went to the terrace every evening to watch the sunset over the horizon with my daughter. Now I don't even remember the last time I watched a sunset. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #AmWriting #TimeTravel

October 28th, 2020
The sun was setting, casting a dull glow over the horizon before dipping into the greyish-blue sea below. Maya stood on her balcony and watched the sunset, feeling strangely reflective. She had missed thousands of sunsets because of her busy schedule. But now that she was not working, she could finally spend time with nature. Her last trip to the past had drained her emotionally, and she had refrained from using Vaqt for about three weeks now.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I haven't got to explore Chronolosis, a health issue that a time traveller gets due to excessive time travelling. Since my book is more speculative fiction than science fiction, I haven't really gone into exploring Chronolosis. #WriteSky

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Day 7 of #TimeTravelAuthors I cannot assign an ice cream flavour for BID TIME A GOODBYE, but if you ask me what dessert it would be, it would be Falooda. It has a little of everything in it. #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Day 3 of #TimeTravelAuthors Maya Krishnamurthy lives in Chennai, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Of course, everybody else lives there too 😁 #WriteSky #AmWriting #TimeTravel

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

First acceptance on Submittable 😭❤️ This is gonna go down as one of the best moments in my publication history 🥹

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

When Maya receives Vaqt from Jessica, all she wishes for is to relive her sweet memories. But love overpowers her, and she changes a tiny thing in the past. Then she wakes up to find that she has landed in a horrible, altered timeline, where there's no Vaqt. #TimeTravelAuthors #WriteSky

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So... Here's a snippet from the Epilogue 😉 Now, why did the book jump from third-person POV to first-person POV in the epilogue? Is it truly the end? 😁 #WIPSnips #WriteSky #AmWriting #TimeTravel

I sit on a stone slab in the platform where I had been walking, staring at the passengers going about. Compared to what this station would eventually become, it was strangely disorienting to see how calm and quiet it seemed. How there was a much smaller crowd, and definitely nothing close to the absolute cacophony and chaos it would have in the 21st century.

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There are many favourite pieces of feedback, but I'll go with the recent one a beta reader (and a dear friend) said after finishing the 2nd draft of BID TIME A GOODBYE 🥹❤️ #WriteSky

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Currently reading Recursion by Blake Crouch. Recent reading recs are The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie, and The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood. My TBR has 447 books, so I can't name any specific books. #SummerOfStories #WriteSky

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Kavya Janani. U @kavyajanani.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

How's this cento? Wrote it for a prompt by Poetry Outdoors Substack. #KJDreamyPoet #PoetrySky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

NATURE

(A cento poem made up of lines from Mary Oliver's 'Nature')

Restless and wild, the root and branch, the bloodied beak-they tossed the moon upward into the crooked branches.

All night I could settle on nothing.

Even the screams from the cold leaves went on lapping on its slow way which is the true gift of nature.

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