Tanaz Bhathena's Blog - Posts Tagged "writing"

If you know me at all, you know I like to wax poetic about the past.

I'm happy to say that this recently resulted in an essay that was published by The Lit Hub today:

http://lithub.com/why-where-we-write-...

Enjoy! :)

-Tanaz

I recently wrote a blog post for Writer's Digest on workshop critiques:

Excerpt:

"Eight years ago, when I took my first creative writing course at the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, I went to a workshop run by a Canadian writer whose work had been nominated for the Giller Prize. At the end of the workshop, I stuck around with a few other stragglers to ask a question about something the writer said. In the process, I overheard a conversation between the writer and another workshop attendee – a woman who confessed to not having written for five years after being brutally critiqued by her former creative writing teacher.

Though this was new – and shocking – to me at the time, it was only the first among many stories that I heard from other writers who confessed to their work being ripped to shreds at a workshop or by a teacher in a classroom or in a writing group."

READ MORE:
http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-b...

I recently guest-blogged for YA Buccaneers about flexibility with writing.

As someone who used to normally write without outlines, drafting my second novel became a real challenge for me.

Here's what I did to overcome it:

http://www.yabuccaneers.com/blog/2016...

A friend of mine (who is also an amazing writer) came up with a hashtag on Twitter recently called #OwnYourOwn. The idea was to come up with tweets and blog posts to encourage and inspire marginalized writers.

Here is my little contribution, on YA Interrobang:

http://www.yainterrobang.com/tanaz-bh...