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Languages that bind and bound: War of Words

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Languages bind and bound us. Do you need to learn English or Hindi if you have a different mother tongue in India? War of Words are plenty and today I will tell you how Bengali, English, and Hindi helped me.

How great is your mother tongue? How useful is it to teach you stuff? Should learning be only in regional languages? Do all subjects have quality educational material in local languages? Are all regional boards at par with the Central Board of education?

A long-time back, I studied in West Bengal board for my class tens and twelves. The school was English medium, I still had Bengali as my first language and English as my second language. That was the standard protocol. Thankfully our school taught English, at a level much above that needed for my second language boards. Studying at Carmel High School was a big blessing.

Hindi was a third language in which I had some trouble learning to read and write. The good news is I did well on my board in my languages too, which helped me score well. But then came a problem which had nothing to do with languages and everything to do with the board.

JEE followed the higher secondary board roughly, back then. It wasn’t a replica, but not as diverse as the All India Pre-medical entrance syllabus.

The native tongue would be a barrier if I studied only in Bengali as my hubby did. But with determination and help that can be surmounted.

The problem of Higher education in regional language

The language is also a problem when you start studying Medical books, technical books. They are not written in any regional dialect for national level colleges. If you lack fluency in understanding the language, there’s a problem of registration and understanding. Application, after all, will be a function of all this making up your memory.

An egoistic debate of regional language supremacy is useless, if you don’t make efforts to write professional courses in that language. While we interact with all strata of society as a doctor, we speak many languages.

Nonverbal communication skills and empathy needs to be high in all caregivers. But education needs to be above language and region politics. Learning languages is fun and great for your brain. It’s also essential you include those which give you and the children the best chance to be financially independent in the future.

Education needs to be holistic and also should help you earn. One without the other becomes a problem for the individual and society as a whole.

Blogchatter started an interesting conversation on twitter about regional language and blogging; you can check that out.

Are regional languages fading in India? This was a question #Blogchatter asked on a twitter chat. This made me think hard about this.

With such a diversity in culture and language, are the regional languages fading in India?

Languages bind us. They also limit us. The limit of your knowledge is often a function of how many lingoes you know. That’s always a problem for individual growth and also grow as a nation.

E.g., Without knowing English, I would be unable even to be a Doctor. All medical books in English. Without knowing Bengali (West Bengal)or Hindi (Delhi and other places), I would be unable to practice and even earn. Speaking the language people understand is essential.

The literature of each dialect, the wisdom of ages. Exactly. It is a good thing to learn words. It’s great for our brains. The tricky part of it causes surprising neural connections to happen

Does globalization hurt our regional languages?

A difficult question with a complicated answer. For me globalization is opportunity. It’s an opportunity to take our languages to the world. To read beautiful stories from various cultures is a boon because shared wisdom compounds in value.

Human resource is valuable when they are educated and aware. If learning only one language limits you, learn another.

The decline is maybe a failure of genuinely thinking about education holistically. It’s not just learning. It’s learning, doing, creating, teaching taking it forward. The system needs to be sustainable; maybe the policymakers will think about this. It’s also a choice and about what helps you.

How is the Health of the Nation: The report is an eye-opener!

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Personal growth and Learning (#DailyWellness 1)

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When I was a teenager, one of my favorite monthly reads was laughter is the best medicine. A Readers Digest magazine staple.

While reading has helped me discover a lot about myself, writing helped me fill the missing bits.

Health is a favorite topic on my blog. Its the soul of it. It’s the reason I started writing. But what about wellness, wellbeing, peace, and happiness? Do they go together?

Can happiness come without peace and contentment? Is contentment the antithesis of success and can the pursuit of success and happiness happen together while practicing daily wellness?

So many questions whose answer I can’t find anywhere. But to the questions whose answer I have some idea about, I write. Daily Wellness is the new series on my blog, to celebrate the five years of writing.

Life is full of small joys and sorrows. The important thing is the right mindset and the right group of people around you to help and support you. That’s the only recipe I know for doing what I do. Even if it’s five people in this world, that’s more than most people have.

A is for Attitude :

Attitude and the right mindset is crucial. Isn’t that what gives us the extra push? The added strength to climb the mountain? This can-do attitude for the right thing needs to be developed from the right age. With control of positive thinking will this attitude become easier.

An attitude of gratitude is an important ingredient, in your wellness cupboard that needs regular airing. You will feel that you are sufficiently grateful, but start cribbing when stressed.

Daily living is stressful. As a Doctor, I meet people in pain and distress. In order to fight the stress monster, I have to try daily practices. Doctors and caregivers at all levels, need to recharge daily to heal.

During our medical college training, no one taught us how to cope with disability and death on an emotional level. Soldiers and the police need PTSD therapy after wars, so do doctors. Doctors are fighting the inevitable every day at the risk of getting beaten up.

Anyone who faces death, disability and the dark side of life daily, needs a guiding light. Without a guiding light, you and I both can get lost in the black hole of darkness.

The only way to avoid being sucked into an abyss is to have faith.

Developing an attitude of self-discipline, self-improvement, self-development, self-help, whatever you call it, is important. Because true growth occurs only with inner growth. Without this, everything appears empty.

Focus on an attitude of growth and nurturing.

Stay connected to those who make you feel happy and comfortable in your own skin.

All that which helps you stay peaceful needs to be embraced and nurtured. Nature and a loving family can go a long way in bolstering wellness.

Personal growth and Learning

Then should you all visit wellness resorts?

While that depends on your budget and lifestyle, I dream of a society where wellness is a daily practice. Just like you need to brush your teeth to keep them sparkling, practicing daily wellness keeps your soul shining.

I grew up in a family with a lot of mental health challenges. I have survived several health scares and all through it, one simple habit has helped me. That habit was reading. If you want to unlock the right attitude for wellness, you must plan your brain food well. Both nutritionally and intellectually.

What you think and read, reflects in your actions and choices. If you don’t read that shows too.

Do you read? Let me know in the comments below about what helps in your daily wellness.

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Why Reading makes you Smart: Reading works!

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Does Reading make you Smart?Yes Reading works!Reading skills are a good indicator of intelligence.

Humans are unique. Though we have an innate ability to speak, reading and writing are acquired skills. The brain needs training for this. After watching Taarey Zameen par, every parent wanted to change the narrative. Who needs education when you can support the child’s creativity? Right? But why not have everything? Why is there a fight between science and arts? Isn’t both creative? Why is reading, writing maths and science at opposite ends of drawing, singing, and other artsy skills?

Luckily as a child, I have ignored labels and read everything. The West Bengal board back then, had subjects, exam patterns, which required a lot of mugging up. The best way to beat the boredom was to read my subjects from non-syllabus books. This helped me write better answers and keep boredom away. This technique later helped me in my higher studies too.

education quote by Dr.Amrita Basu
Education quote by Dr.Amrita Basu

The good part of reading is, it satisfies your curiosity. The bad part…there are none!

The real world likes things which work and employable education. That’s where reading helps develop your world view. It’s great to be interested in a particular subject. But just like the world needs all sorts of the profession so too with education. Until you read a lot, you miss the full picture. You are counting the trees and never seeing the forest.

Read a Rainbow

I am a voracious reader. Even during my med school days, I never forgot to carry a Perry Mason or an Agatha Christie around with me. The bliss of forgetting textbooks comes from solving mysteries. Now when I am a doctor, I keep reading fiction, it helps me relax. I also read a lot of nonfiction on a multitude of topics. This helps me learn a lot of things which I found interesting but never had the opportunity to learn. One book I am memorizing now is This is Marketing by Seth Godin. Five years back I wouldn’t have read it. But today it’s a different story. I am reading it because I like reading Seth’s blog. A man who debunks the sleazy part of Marketing and makes you want to make the world a better place.

 

Intelligence and Reading 

How are these books helpful for me?

I am a practicing ENT surgeon. I am moonlighting as a doctor-blogger and a self-published author. Everything I read helps. While health is the main focus of my blog, I wanted to learn to create wealth through digital entrepreneurship. I have fun learning, and that’s the purpose. It’s also nice to earn writing.

How Healthwealthbridge (my blog) started

The name Healthwealthbridge keeps reminding me, that it’s my education, my love for reading that helps me. My hubby and I both come from middle-class backgrounds. Typical Bengali middle-class parents drill the value of education early on. How far you will let your brain accept this simple wisdom, is individual. Education is the only sustainable way of coming out of poverty. For that, you need to be a lifelong learner. Not just textbooks. But books with wisdom from all over the world and all ages.

Education is the bridge which holds health and wealth together

Health awareness through digital media is my goal. Wealth generation and management both need education. Education at its simplest and cheapest starts with reading. When you don’t read you don’t grasp world views well. When you have good reading skills, you develop a curiosity around different topics. That’s what happened to me after I did my post grad. Reading topics on my subject were great, but I wanted more challenges for my brain.

Slowly learning how to manage my blog was a boost. Reading a book on how to use Scratch with my daughter was basic but fun. These are concepts I have no formal training. I am dreaming of learning to code one day, and I have my reading material ready. But will I be able to do it? I don’t know. I have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Education is fun, once you have your rozi roti planned. Being a doctor helps me be financially independent, and I can study as many subjects as much as I want. The world is my library, and nothing stops me now.

Why reading makes you Smart

Reading helps you learn new skills

If I didn’t read, I could hardly have written’ since I have no formal training in creative writing. As a little girl, I read books hidden inside my textbooks. Before exams I regretted my excessive storybook binging. But they helped too. My speed reading, skimming skills became better.

PG training had meant, no time to read too many story books. I made up for it, by reading new text books on my subject, every few days. It was so bad that my hubby put his foot down before the exams. He insisted that I needed to revise my textbooks and to read new books before exams were not smart. But when it came to vivas and unexpected exam questions, it was my voracious extracurricular book reading, that helped me.

Lesson learned: It always helps when you read 

education quote by Dr.Amrita Basu
Education quote by Dr.Amrita Basu

My journey: Doctor to Doctor-Blogger

I write a lot of health, nutrition, wellness related topics. I also love writing about my parenting journey and journey as a mompreneur. Reading a good book makes me want to write. When I stop reading, I feel empty dry inside. Reading is like thirst quencher for my soul and my brain. My reading habit takes the blame for my ultra-opinionated know-it-all -self. But it’s also the very basis behind all my professional and nonprofessional successes.

When you read,its  a quick way to increase your IQ: Is this science backed?

As a child, my sister and I had a gala time during the holidays. We competed at devouring as many books as we could find, homework or no homework. But after class seven, I realized my mom would cut off pocket money and library visits if my results suffered. Guess what? I studied harder and saved my precious library allowance. I have spent more money on renting books at the used books, than on lipstick or phuchka. Till date my favourite gifts are books, and my hubby is happy that book fair comes before my birthday.

Why should you even read books?

If you are a student, remember you can learn to love books any time. You need to find a topic you love. Once you get glued to the process, there is no going back. A study on more than a thousand twins showed that between the age of seven and sixteen reading interest and habits have a direct effect on intelligence. Today and now is also the next best thing. The more you read, the more neural connections happen. You register, retain, find correlations and then find your models for navigating the world. This is what makes your IQ higher

Should you read books online?

Why not?Physical books give a unique comfort.But when it comes to books,online or offline,the more you read,the better your understanding of the world becomes.

How to potentially improve IQ?

Reading every day is the cheapest and easiest way to improve IQ. If you have read Munger’s Poor Charlies Almanac, you will understand what I am talking about. You will also know if you have read Miss Marple by Agatha Christie. Both stress on the ability to recognize frameworks or models. The type which helps you identify patterns and find solutions. When you read,it  increases all types of intelligence, including emotional intelligence. It’s probably the simplest way to improve your chances of success and happiness. Successful people not only read a lot; they curate their reading material as carefully as they maintain their diet. While food nourishes the body, reading books nourish your brain your language skills, increases your ability to recognize the pattern and improve problem-solving skills at multiple levels. I may be biased, but that’s what any reader will tell you!

Do you like this habit? Tell me about your favorite books in the comments below.

This was originally published in the Education Post https://theeducationpost.in/why-reading-makes-you-smart/

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Women on Wheels:Azad foundation helps make women car driver

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The world over women struggles with career options. Can women be professional chauffeurs? Can they become car drivers on hire? The problem of employment is bigger in the marginalized part of society. Lack of education and lack of family planning makes earning enough money difficult.
What happens when you have migrated from one place to another? What happens when you are not educated, have no skills and have several mouths to feed?

Population control, adult education, and skilling India, all have a role to play. Only the last option will help both in the short term. Women who are from the disadvantaged part of society, work under extraordinary circumstances to earn enough for their family.

Too many mouths and not enough resources make things worse. But how can you help? This is where the work being done by Azad foundation is important.

What is the Azad Foundation doing?

Azad Foundation is a charitable trust in Delhi strives hard to fight, the persistent gender inequalities in India. There is a need for finding non-traditional, safe, high-return earning options, for economically weak women in urban areas.
But is that even possible?
Yes, and they have shown the way!

Women on Wheels is a successful flagship program of the Azad Foundation and Sakha.

Together they helped more than 1600 socio-economically weak women to become employable.
Skilling and employability in the transport industry as chauffeurs paved the way for financial independence.
They have successfully provided safe rides to more than a million women.DTC’s first woman car driver, UN’s first woman driver was all part of the Azad family.

What is nontraditional work for women?

Training women to become drivers,
masons, electricians, plumbers, etc make work options available. Skilled work in a specific, high demand niche can help women make enough income while working with dignity.
To meet the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) you need to include women. The development will only be sustainable if its benefits accrue equally to both women and men, and women’s rights will only become a reality if they are part of broader efforts to protect the planet and ensure that all people can live with dignity and respect”

Now compare the following scenarios :

Shantaben, 45 years old, lives on a pavement in Ahmedabad city. She is an unskilled worker earning as a construction worker. Her life is a struggle every minute. From access to toilets, drinking water, food, childcare, and work.
At 300 rupees per day, she works 18 hours a day at the construction site and at home.She has no energy for anything else.

Somaben, 24 years old, has migrated to Ahmedabad from Banswara, Rajasthan, with her husband and 3 young children. Somaben lives and works in a construction site in
Ahmedabad. The challenging part is, she has a two-month-old, who is at the construction site with her, while she lifts heavy cement loads throughout the day. Let alone child care, she hardly has hardly any toilet breaks.
This is where Azad foundations Women behind Wheels is walking the right path. It is giving women in a marginalized part of society, a chance to get skilled and become professional drivers. A chance to earn a good living and live with dignity.

A few examples:

Shanti is a commercial chauffer with Sakha. Quite and confident she inspires confidence in her clients.
Azad Foundation India-women cab driver Chandni, studied up to the 10th standard and now she is financially independent.

Deepali A determined young woman from Ahmedabad, Deepali has exceeded her life expectations in becoming a professional driver.
The first two stories were vastly different from the last three. The difference is Shanti, Chandni and Deepali are now skilled and have control over their life. Azad foundation helped them get financial azadi.
The Women on Wheels programme started in 2008 in Delhi. Now it reached Jaipur, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and Indore.

Who is this programme for?

  • Young women
  • Aged 18-35years
  • Living in slums and resettlement colonies in cities.
  • Socioeconomically backward.
  • School dropouts.
  • Interest to learn
  • Hardworking

Women on Wheels programme helps socially excluded females, move from the margins to the mainstream economy.

A few statistics

  • 2016-17, 582 women enrolled in Women on Wheels programmes across India.
  • 322 women achieving their permanent license, which was a 41% increase on the previous year.

How do Women on Wheel help?

Women on Wheels give technical, self-empowerment and self-development training. It’s a way to learn, how to be a  car driver.
Qualified women drivers are enrolled with a partner, Sakha Consulting Wings Pvt Ltd. They help employ female chauffers for Sakha cabs. The goal is to serve women customers with a women car driver in India.
Azad works with both government, business and non-governmental partners to give the highest quality training.
They help trainees get citizenship document.
They help them get accident insurance.
They also help them open a bank account.
They help with uniform and also registering a mobile phone number.
Self-defense, protecting themselves from violence and soft skills for communication and crowd management is also a part of the curriculum.

Testimonials from Women on Wheels alumni are proof of their commendable work.

“WHEN I WAS TRAINING, I WOULD FEEL LIKE I COULD STAND ON MY OWN FEET, I COULD DO ANYTHING. BECAUSE OF THAT I FEEL LIKE I’M LIVING MY LIFE FREELY TODAY – RESHMA, DELHI”

I LIKED SELF-DEFENSE THE BEST. WE WERE TAUGHT HOW NOT TO TOLERATE ANY NONSENSE ON THE ROAD. THOUGH I HAVE NOT HAD A NEED TO USE IT, I AM SURE I WILL BE ABLE TO PUNCH IF REQUIRED!” – MADHU PAWAR, JAIPUR

We can’t do everything all at once. What we can do is, skill those who need our help and who are willing to work for it.

Do you want to help?
Share the story of Azad by sharing this post with your friends and on social media. When women work and earn, can social change be far behind?

 

Pinterest account suspended:What to do?

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Pinterest account suspended? What can you do?

I have been Pinning since the time Pinterest was born. I had a personal account back then and saved everything home decor, gardening and DIY. I was a blog ignorant and was reading a lot of blogs but didn’t know I could write one too.

Then I found Amy Lynn Andrews and started Blogging and Pinterest became a treasured library. In June 2018, one fine day I found my Pinterest account was suspended. The day before I was saving a pin of mine, with a picture of the larynx on fiber-optic laryngoscopy. Back then I knew about Pinterest spamming but not on Pinterest banning. I found out soon enough.

Signing in was not possible. I was getting an error message saying the account couldn’t be found.  I was devasted. I was worried and checked their community guidelines. My account had a lot of secret boards, all my home decor pins for the new home and everything I loved on Pinterest. What was I supposed to do?

No one had any experience with Pin account suspension in my social media circle. I was close to tears. I checked my mind for possible mistakes, I may have done. I didn’t find anything specific, except the seven times I saved one pin. Since I had no access to the Pinterest account, I couldn’t check it.

Stage I: severely upset and crying. At a loss for what to do.

Who helped in solving the Pinterest account problem?

1) Google and Tailwind

I searched Google and read everything I could. I read that Pinterest does this sudden spam checks and accounts can be suspended forever. But there was good news. The spam checks are mostly automated and if you have suddenly saved the same pin multiple times at a  stretch, you may be caught in the mix. The good news if you are a real person, plus this was your first time and you use Pinterest genuinely with good content, there was hope.

2)Stage 2: Hope

You write to Pinterest and wait for them.

  • I filled up a form here. Click on appeals and the appeal account suspension. Then you will receive an email from Pinterest.
  • Check the spam folder and reply to the email. This email is crucial.
  • Reply to it .Tell them how much you love and appreciate Pinterest and will do everything in your power to keep it as awesome as it is and that you never spam.
  • They will do a manual check. If they find and the found the account good and healthy they will reactivate your account.

3)What else did  I do?

I wrote to a Tailwind representative and she was kind enough to get back to me, saying she will put in word for me with the Pinterest rep she knew.

Takeaway:

Whatever the reason it happened. The account was back. But one problem. I had already made a new account. I had to deactivate that account before I could use this one. Apparently only one account with one website is allowed. But I am happy I learned this thing about Pinterest because since then I have heard about many people have lost their account and never got it back!

What does  Pinterest want?

  • Original content that adds unique value.
  • User-friendly formatting making it easy for people to understand what your pin is about.
  • A  landing page that matches what’s in the Pin and not click bait.

Pinterest account suspended
Pinterest account suspended

What doesn’t Pinterest like?

No porn nudity or erotica.

They remove content that physically or sexually exploits people.

They remove images showing violence.

They remove content that displays, rationalizes or encourages suicide, self-injury, eating disorders or substance abuse.

They remove hate speech and discrimination.

They remove content used to sell or buy regulated goods, like drugs, alcohol, tobacco, firearms and other hazardous materials.

They remove accounts that impersonate any person or organization.

They remove harmful advice, disinformation campaigns. Don’t put harmful misinformation on Pinterest. They are strict. They don’t allow advice having a bad effect on pinners health or public safety. If you are not a medical expert, it’s a bad idea to give health and fitness advice in any case.

Promotion of false cures for terminal or chronic illnesses and anti-vaccination advice is strictly dealt with.

Pin how you want others to pin. It’s an amazing platform and making good quality content will help. Please don’t forget to follow me on Pinterest and if you want to be a part of my group boards DM me on Pinterest and we can pin together.

Creative Writing Course with Blogchatter:My learnings

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Did you ever take a creative writing course? I wouldn’t have either, if not for the Blogchatter creative writing course launched this year.

I did my schooling from a convent school in Calcutta, till class ten. The next two years were at a bigger school with better results academically. I cherish my experiences at both. But all my writing skills I dedicate to my Carmel School and the teachers who taught me.

When you are thinking about becoming a Doctor , the last thing you would want to learn is grammar. But one interesting thing about the Madhyamik exams(class ten exam in West Bengal), back then was, your total score mattered. If you didn’t score well in the languages, history, and geography, you couldn’t do well.

What helped me to study?

1)I just love reading anything. So first time reading grammar books and literature is not a problem. The problem is revising.

2) For this, I used a trick I learned from a friend. Just write,

I love English

on the first page of your English Book. Looking at it every day will help make your mind more likely to stop the overwhelm of learning many subjects together.

All the subjects you learn at school may seem useless. But you never know what the future holds. I am happy to tell you that my writing career started after my medical career and for this, I draw on everything I learned and learn every day.

As a writer, the world is your oyster, your research library and your audience. What you write, will resonate with some but not all. But if you are someone like me, who listens to their own tune in their head, you only write for people like you.

As Seth Godin says in his new book On Marketing

[bctt tweet=”People like us, do things like this! Seth Godin (This is Marketing)” username=”misra_amrita”]

When Blogchatter shared their idea of giving Bloggers in India a chance to get certified, I was ready. I love learning. Things which help me write better are more fun than most challenges.

What do I plan to learn through this creative writing course?

I have no degree in formal writing, except medical content writing. When I write nonfiction its important to make it relatable, readable and scannable. These are things  Yoast helps me with. But one important thing Yoast or Grammarly can’t help is, with creative writing in nonfiction. They can help polish my writing, but can’t really guide. This is where Blogchatter creative writing course can help you.

I think creative writing e-course will help me focus on the storytelling part. Nonfiction need not be boring if storytelling is a part of it. It will make my writing more readable. According to Yoast readability is a big ranking factor.

What makes writing readable?

Fluidity, simplicity and an ability to generate empathy. I hope to make my writing more insightful. Writing in any form is creative. Scientific articles, journals, book reports, and more serious academic writing, needs a protocol. But if it’s your blog , your nonfiction book, what do you do? Will you be high handed and pompous or make your readers want to dive deep?

[bctt tweet=”Fluidity, simplicity and an ability to generate empathy. #Healthwealthbridge” username=”misra_amrita”]

What I learned from  Aditya Sinha

  • Don’t make nonfiction boring. Most of the time fact is stranger than fiction
  • Research well.
  • Government websites will give a lot of data for nonfiction research.
  • The truth is a strange beast and depends on who is reading it.
  • Answer the why in nonfiction.
  • Emphasis on causation will help in the primary goal of the nonfiction book.
  • The chronological narrative may help in a certain category of nonfiction.
  • Interviews  and  research helps to make a nonfiction book come together in many cases

Blogchatter creative writing course
Blogchatter creative writing course

Golden nuggets:

  • Ministry of statistics and program implementation for data-related research in India
  • Read The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery for understanding the beauty of simplicity.

Creative writing for a nonfiction

What I learned from Samarpita Sen’s Instagram Live on editing 

  • Editing starts with the author. You need to do your own editing first, before sending to a professional.
  • Developmental editing costs more and rightly so.
  • Final proofreading cannot be skipped.
  • It’s better to talk to your editor, than text them. A phone call works better than just texts.
  • Make your writing crisper, before sending for editing. Total word count makes the cost of editing higher.
  • Nonfiction editing needs subject matter knowledge and fact-checking. So choose the editor carefully.

I was reading the book, This is Marketing by Seth Godin. Never in the wildest dreams in my childhood or adulthood did  I have any interest in marketing. But blogging makes understanding marketing important. Thats where Seth’s style of creative writing in nonfiction so perfect.

He drives home the point, without lecturing. He shares anecdotes, examples, weird analogies and you understand. Creative writing is that. It draws the reader into the writer’s home. They chat and nod together with a total understanding of all that, which makes little sense to others. If you think your writing is too simple to be creative, you are mistaken. The beauty of creative writing is in its simplicity, its ability to make sense.

This is what I aim to learn and practice with the Creative writing course. Writing this for the Love of Blogging.

Editing tips with Kanchana Banerjee

  • Don’t take rejection to heart.
  • Editors help shape the story.
  • Beta readers may or may not be helpful if they are friends.
  • Developmental editing is important.

Golden Nugget: As a writer, write every day. Editing can come afterward.

Blogchatter creative writing ecourse
Blogchatter creative writing course

 The session with Neel Anand on Instagram 

  • Contemporize the thought process while writing  mythological fiction
  • Use all emotions while writing.
  • Remember the viewpoint of a character. Tweak but don’t make radical changes as that affects acceptance.

Golden Nugget: Screenwriting is good money.

Marketing your Book: Session  by Kiran Manral:

In this IG live Kiran Manral shared her tips for marketing the book. Work on your blog, social media skills, go live, be real and don’t stop.

She cleared one important question that lurks in my mind. Should I stick to a niche or try different niches? If you are having fun experimenting, there’s no harm in writing about a varied things. Just be careful about your branding. Thats important too.

Golden nuggets  from a session with Kiran Manral:

  • Have fun with your book promos. If you are bored, your audience will be too!
  • You are a writer you are supposed to write creative copy for social media too.Don’t be repetitive. Thats the best way to kill all interest. Make it quirky, inspire curiosity and don’t take your self too seriously.

[bctt tweet=”The beauty of creative writing is in its simplicity, its ability to make sense. #Healthwealthbridge” username=”misra_amrita”]

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The anthology To be Read published with 15 other Blogchatter authors can be downloaded for free here for a limited period.

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