How to become A Writer Virtually

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How to become A Writer Virtually Join Session on 12 Sep from 11 Pm Onwards.

So you want to be a writer

Of course, you’re already a writer. If all the writing you have ever done—the emails, the letters, the notices, the memos—were piled up, Shakespeare’s output would pale by comparison. But if you want to write a novel or short stories or plays or poems or whatever it is you want to do, Jerry Pinto, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale, USA, the Crossword Literary Award and the Hindu Lit for Life Prize among others, has some tips.

1. Do I have what it takes?

An hour-long session packed with how-to tips to begin the process of self-definition, exploring form and asking yourself that central question: why do I want to do this. The session will end with a cue and you will get the password to the second session only if you make a submission.

2. Should I quit the day job then?

In which the economics of the writing business will be discussed. No, it isn’t all doom and gloom. Yes, you can make a living. No, there will be no names and numbers handed out. You get to cut that mustard on your own, Bubba. You get your second cue; you make your submission.

3. What’s my form?

In which the creative writing is broken down into those awful pigeonholes. But then we are not pigeons and our writing is not for the birds so we’ll talk about the new categories too. You get your third cue, as above.

4. Ask me anything

This is an open session. You come with a question or you don’t come at all.