10 Feb 2022

Pic of green tea in a cup
From time to time, I get together with the My Alchemy Graduates and we do a writing sprint. Although I am the one who furnishes the prompts, I usually don't have time to think about them. It's only in that 'space' across the zoom windows that the writerly atmosphere gets created. And together we write. Later we share. We exchange feedback. Most importantly, we have fun. The pencils get s...

09 Mar 2021

Haikus
On the first of March, 2021, I started something that I had been planning for quite a while: the My Alchemy 30 day writing challenge. #MyAlchemy30DayWritingChallenge. #MyAlchemy30DayWritingChallenge Armed with nothing but a belief that everyone can and ‘should’ write, and the desire to encourage every pen to make contact with paper, I had painstakingly worked on my writing challeng...

22 Feb 2021

title
"The meeting has been shifted again". She looked up aghast. "No..." "Yes." He said. His face had no expression. His dark eyes revealed nothing. She started praying fervently. It really couldn't be on a Wednesday. Or could it? This hanging-by-the-thread feeling was a bit much. "It's shifted to... ". His phone beeped. Distracted he checked his phone, heartlessly not fin...

14 Sep 2020

MyAlchemy, Writing Workshop, Online
Do you struggle when it comes to writing? Are you unable to write an important email? Confused how to structure your report?Not sure how to get started writing?Want your writing to be flawless?Can you spare 2 hours + 4 weekends to help improve your writing? My Alchemy: The Online Writing Workshop Choose between weekdays or weekends. My Alchemy is a simple guided online workshop con...

14 Sep 2020

Fries Burger and ketchup
"Why not?", she said biting into her burger. The mayo oozed out. She licked it off her fingers. "Well...for one it's a working day." "Amazing isn't it? " She took another bite, then had a swig of her coffee. "Er..." "Look," she said excitedly and held her hands out. "It's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday!" "Yes, I know the days of the week." he said dourly, sip...

07 Sep 2020

the participant says
What the participant says... A workshop is as good as what the participant says about it. So we decided to ask a few questions of our participants. Meet Sakshi L, a student who found great value in the online writing workshop. Sakshi was one of the participants of the July batch of My Alchemy, the online writing workshop. A good writer herself, Sakshi said she wanted to hone her writi...

20 Aug 2020

When participants speak, the people listen. 15 participant. 4 weekends. One wish. To write. To write more. To write better. And did we do that? Yes. And how. Listen to what Alpana S. a professor in Botany had to say about how the workshop grew on her! Here it is: My Alchemy Participant Speak Here's what Alpana S had to say about My Alchemy Which is the one aspect in which ...

19 Aug 2020

Participant Speak
In July 2020, 15 brave warriors came to the writing battleground armed with their keyboards and their imagination. And went back victorious! Listen to what young Saamiya had to say about those 4 weekends we spent writing. Learning. Thinking. Laughing. Playing. And writing. Here it is: My Alchemy - Participant Speak Here's what Saamiya S had to say about My Alchemy Q: Which ...

18 Aug 2020

ParticipantSpeak
You've heard us talking about My Alchemy, the online writing workshop that had 15 eager participants over 4 weekends in July-August, 2020. What we all did during those 4 hours per weekend was listen, learn and of course, write! Yes, and that included me. I wrote some too! But enough about me. There's only so much one can say about something that's driven by passion. Sometimes it's ni...

11 Aug 2020

Do you struggle when it comes to writing? Are you unable to write an important email? Confused how to structure your report?Not sure how to get started writing?Want your writing to be flawless?Can you spare 2 hours + 4 weekends to help improve your writing? My Alchemy: The Weekend Online Writing Workshop Use your weekends well. My Alchemy is a simple guided online workshop conceptu...