Tanaz Bhathena's Blog, page 3

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...

I recently participated in a series run by Jen, who blogs at www.popgoesthereader.com (a gorgeous website that I highly recommend visiting).

Every year, Jen dedicates a full month to leading ladies in literature - our female fictional role models and how they inspired us.

When I first read the idea, Jane Eyre instantly appeared in my mind.

The essay I wrote turned highly personal and I'm grateful I got "Her Story" to explore this facet of my life.

To read the essay: http://www.popgoesthereader.com/her-s...

- 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'm part of a great group of debut novelists and we're participating in an instagram photo challenge for the first 10 days of May.

For Day 1, I'm supposed to tell you about my book.

But why tell you about Qala Academy, when I can show you? :)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BE27fVBlVp1/

Let me know what you think!

Tanaz

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