Article Writing

One of the new concepts we have come up with is all about writing an interview.

Basics: Writing an interview with an actor/actress, with all of the facts laid out correctly as per known. There need not be an occasion when you have actually met with a film personality.

Aim: There should be an event which should be highlighted (would be better if it is based on a topic which has been in the news lately), along with the views and opinion of the personality. This can be based as a TV Interview or even as a newspaper article.

Nanowrimo

This is a wierd word; one which even I hadn't heard till a friend told me. So, what I'm going to do is put you in contact with the basics from other sites.
(From the Wiki files)
National Novel Writing Month, shortened as NaNoWriMo (na-noh-RY-moh), is an annual internet-based creative writing project that takes place every November. NaNoWriMo challenges participants to write 50,000 words of a new novel between November 1 and 30. Despite its name, it accepts entries from around the world. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to get people writing, no matter how bad the writing is, through the end of a first draft. The idea is that many people are scared to start writing because it won't be any good, and if there's a time to celebrate length, rather than quality, more people will write an entire first draft, which they can then proceed to edit if they wish.

For more information, please check out this site: http://nanowrimo.org/

Using the basics of this event, we would like to organize something similar on a smaller scale. The word limit being kept at 600-900 words, and the time being shortened to a fortnight, we allow you to write a short story on any lines, and any genre.

You can contact us on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/writer.foundation and can post your entries on the page itself or as a message. We will put all of these up here to read.

Awaiting your response.

Some reasons to start writing

Need some motivation to get started? Here are five good reasons to write:

Write...
1) to express yourself.
Share the best of yourself. Cut through the small talk and the chatter to what's important; express the secret feelings and perceptions that don't fit into polite conversation. Show your personal vision of the world, which is unique.

2) to entertain yourself.
Writing is a challenge, an adventure. When you're in the thick of it, you can feel thoroughly absorbed. Write to add color, excitement, and meaning to your days.

3) to keep yourself company.
You never have to feel lonely as long as you can write. Writing is a conversation -- with yourself, with your future reader, with the books that have inspired you. You can also create characters who come alive in your imagination.

4) to live other lives.
In real life, there are limits. In your writing, you can be anyone or anything. You can try on different lives, become a different person for a while, transport yourself to another place or time.

5) to touch other people.
Offer your writing as a gift to others. Your writing can move people, make them feel intense emotions, keep them up all night passionately turning pages. You can create characters to keep them company. You can make their lives richer and more beautiful.

Activity 2

We have a got a new initiative by one of our members.

As you all know the 'Spot fixing' scandal has clearly rocked the sporting world...the one particular over by the kerala pacer S Sressath has come under scrutiny..lots of speculations are going on...write an account on what u actually feel must have transpired during the event...

We await your entries. You can message it to us on our Facebook Page ( http://www.facebook.com/writer.foundation ), or post it as a comment here.

My Smile

I do everything they want, they smile;

I do as per their wish, they smile;

Their happiness allows me the moment to be ecstatic,

And then I smile.

And then comes the moment which they all wait expectantly for,

And it all comes to that.

All those happy moments, forgotten,

All those pleasurable memories, erased,

And all that remains is that predicament.

Criticism swallows me,

Anger disrupts me,

Sadness envelopes me,

And what I cannot do is smile.

A post by Karan Sampat.

Books-The Best

I don’t remember when I started my affair with the books. Was it when I was a small girl reading all my school books before the year began? Or was it as a teenager who devoured Archie comics? Or was it as a young nymph who got lost in the world of Mills & Boon? Or as an aspirant who read Lee Iacocca and Gandhiji’s experiments for inspiration? Or when I got older and the world seemed to get uglier and hence I turned to God! I really don’t know. But as it happens, I read and read and got hooked to the printed letter. The printed letter was not just a printed letter for me. It was my personal aeroplane which took flight with my imaginations into Harry Potter’s world or into Rama’s Vanvaas. Or with Holly and Gerry in P.S. I Love You; or sometimes roamed the underbelly of Mumbai’s underworld in “Shantaram”!
I don’t remember but I’m glad for the books that kept me company when my heart was aching; made me laugh when I was sad; made me cry when I didn’t want to…
BOOKS! Thank God for the BOOKS!

A post by Shefali Arvind.

A Book

The torture, the pain; the agony, the horror. My body aching from the strain of the metal point racing on my skin. The trail of black ink completely ruining the smooth texture of my skin and engraving on it millions of strange signs; the process making me bleed and weep from every pore on my skin. Cut into various sizes and pieces, I lay on the floor, naked and wet from the painting on all of my body; then pain consumes me as the huge contraption puts all of my parts together and binds us together.

My eyes open in the suffocating innards of the plastic packing. I race towards nowhere; my friends lying next to me, all bound by the shackles, with nowhere to go. Helpless, stranded and asphyxiating; I lie still in the darkness, and wait for the pain to all end.

My wits return back to me as the cover is torn off violently. Air engulfs me and I take in a huge mouthful to return back to the world. My parts are opened, sometimes calmly, but often without care and concern. My body aches at this barbaric torture, but I do not speak; I adjust and I bear the pain.

Thrown around, folded, burnt and even used for the most awkward of tasks, I go through the toughest of lives. I hope for immense care and respect, but all I get is the pain, which I endure with pleasure; as I bring on faces the best creation of God- happiness and smiles.

I educate, I teach, I help, I support. I do everything to make the world a better place to live. All I get in return is not admirable. This does make you wonder what or who I am. I am a book. I go through unimaginable circumstances, but I adapt.

PS: This is a tale of the books we use daily. Please treat books with respect and do not harm them in any way.

Welcome

Hey guys, welcome to the Let’s Write Blog Page. We are going to have many interesting activities which help us learn more and also to explore the vast world of writing. We are awaiting your response. On this page, we shall be uploading all of the write-ups we get from our enthusiastic writers.

A topic has already been put up on our Facebook Page. You can like us at http://www.facebook.com/writer.foundation