#balaramerchela

[demonkidpliz]

Yet another Janmashtami

Note: Hello readers. This story has eight chapters of varying lengths. Chapter 8 is now up and the story is complete.  Disclaimer: This is a

New story up on balaramerchela! Please do give it a read. It's an old, well-loved story, retold with my own twists and turns.

[demonkidpliz]

The night before the moonrise

Notes: This story is now complete. Thank you for being patient while I took a hiatus from writing. I am back with a new story. I hope you en

I took a 6+ month long hiatus and came back with another story. Please read, enjoy and comment!

[demonkidpliz]

Update on balaramerchela

So, I had to disable comments on the latest story on my Wordpress blog, balaramerchela.

Basically, even though I explicitly said that this is a multi-chapter story of eight chapters of varying lengths and that I will be publishing one chapter every Friday, the not-so-gentle readers are not happy. They complain that I don't publish often enough. They complain that the chapters are not long enough.

I've explained myself repeatedly that I am an adult with a full-time job and family, pets and friends. I do not make money from these stories. My stories are original works and take a lot of time to write, edit and proofread. No machine learning and AI are involved. I cannot keep churning new ones out week after week. So my only option was to stagger them out one chapter at a time. This also gave me time to edit them in between my job and travels. I would love to have the whole story up in one go (like I used to back in the day during the pandemic) but then I cannot cope with the amount of nasty comments I get about not publishing a new story immediately afterwards. I’m sorry that the readers think that it’s unfair but I think it’s unfair that I write novel-length stories but only receive comments expressing disappointment from my readers. I’ve been writing since 2009 and in 2014, two of my friends, who are also my proofreaders, urged me to start this blog. Things were going well for the past 10 years but now this blog and my readers’ expectations have become too much for me to handle, in addition to my full-time job and personal life. I did a LOT of writing in 2020-2021. I’m talking full-length stories every Friday because I was under lockdown at home with nothing better to do. Once I went back to the office full-time, I explained that I wouldn’t be able to keep delivering stories like I used to and my readers were very understanding. But something changed this year. The hateful messages and comments have become unmanageable for me. This blog is an enjoyable, but a very small part of my life. I cannot let it take up so much emotional bandwidth. I’m happy to finish publishing the stories I have but after that I will probably archive balaramerchela. I will obviously keep writing, but I will no longer publish my stories. My two best friends might continue to proofread them and I might narrate them to my sibling, but that’s about it. The cons of sharing my stories with the world outweigh the pros. I’m sure there are other, much more talented authors on Wattpad, Tumblr and AO3 who will be able to fill the void. Thank you for reading and supporting me for the past 10 years!

[demonkidpliz]

hello!! i was stalking your blog a bit and i JUST realized that your wordpress is balaramerchela??? THAT’S ONE OF MY FAVOURITE WORDPRESS AND ITS AMAZING!!! thank you so much for gifting us with all your fics because i must say, they are *chef’s kiss* 🥰💗

Oh my god! Yes, demonkidpliz and balaramerchela are one and the same! I am so glad you like my blog. I try and publish as often as I can on Fridays. Please feel free to leave some comments there if you haven’t already. Can’t believe I got a chef’s kiss uwu

[demonkidpliz]

This is no ask but I just wanted to tell you how grateful I am for the amazing stories you write about Krishna and Rukmini.

I have always loved them but no one actually gives Rukmini the attention she deserves

And the way you write them just steals my heart ❤️ Reading your stories just makes my day.

Don't pay any attention to the haters they're idiots

Thank you sooo much

Love,

An ardent fan of Balaramerchela

This is the nicest message I have received in a very very long time. Thank you, my gentle reader. You make everything worthwhile.

[demonkidpliz]

Please write more stories on rukmini Krishna

I am trying my best, friend, but the writer's block is real :'( In the meantime, I have lots of stories on my Wordpress blog. Please go read them if you haven't already. https://balaramerchela.wordpress.com/

[demonkidpliz]

i love your Krishna x Rukmini story (Who Is She?)

it was incredible!! the emotions oh my god 🫶🏽

do you have a master list? i’ve just been checking your tags but if not that’s fine!! just wanted to let you know i love your writing 💗

Hi lovely, all my stories are on my blog: https://balaramerchela.wordpress.com/ Every post is a different, original story I've written. I hope you read the others. Let me know in the comments if you enjoy them!

[demonkidpliz]

Hey! You mentioned having written couple of fics/stories on Mahabharata in one of my posts. Will you be able to provide a masterlist of those? Since I can't find them clearly on your blog.

Here comes a tale

Katha hain swarth ki, paramarth ki

Thanks for your message. Everything I've written is on my Wordpress blog linked above. Please do read them and drop in a comment if you liked a story. I keep updating the blog as I write more.