Hi
Author Anita Nair runs a writing workshop. It's called Anita's Attic and it
has frequent sessions throughout the year. Zac O'YEah and Anjum Hassan have
also started theirs, its called The World Famous Semi Deluxe Writing
Programme, but theirs is less frequent. They have only had one programme so
far (maybe two). Both are in Bangalore.
My unsolicited advice though is to not put her in one since she is only 12.
Critique is the main technique used in these workshops and I feel at 12 you
are not old enough to differentiate critique from criticism. There is also
a lot of forced criticism in workshops and she wouldn't know which pieces
of advice to take and which to ignore. Also, the workshops tend to force
writers into accepted structures. This is wrong. If writing is a creative
process, then structure lends itself to creativity and forcing writers to
stay within some pre-conceived notions is asking them to abort that
creativity. Your daughter should just write whatever she wants to, in
whichever form she chooses, and should not be subject to an adult's version
of what is good writing. Not yet.
V
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:54 AM Sree Sivanandan
wrote:
> Hi
>
> My 12 year old daughter is very keen to attend workshops (Bangalore) that
> can fine tune her book writing skills.
>
> She turns 13, coming Jan and I would place her at 15 in terms of her
> reading interests. She is a voracious reader who can comfortably read 20
> plus books a month.
>
> Please suggest options.
>
> Thanks
> Sree Sivanandan
>
