16 Sep 2020

2020, MyAlchemy, Training, Writing 5 Comments
MyAlchemy
Introducing My Alchemy I just finished yet another batch of my writing workshop. A workshop that runs across 16 hours, 4 weekend, 2 hours each session. Plus time every week for individual feedback for each assignment. And then there's the time I spend one-on-one with each participant. 24 hours. Not to mention the time I take to create the modules. But don't count that time! Intro...
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20 Aug 2020

2020, Writing
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 ...
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19 Aug 2020

2020, Writing
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 ...
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18 Aug 2020

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...
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10 Jul 2017

2017
Once you’ve got all your numbers right and your content has been sufficiently #hashtagged you feel you’ve got it all in place. All the words, numbers and pictures are there. But that's an encyclopedia. It's not a bestseller. B OOOO RING! So obviously you are missing something. (Probably a good writer.) Or simply good writing. (My fellow writers will agree here.) As far back in the six...
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