Advising the young audience to “write the book you want to read”, Mrs Pinto conducted various activities to engage the audience. She gave students the idea of PDCA- Plan, Do, Check, Act, as her tip to begin writing.
Mrs Pinto also informed the students about important tools for writers in editing and plotting, tips for dialogue writing and overcoming roadblocks to writing. Students also participated in an activity where they described a place in Mangalore without revealing the actual location, to understand setting and voice in writing.
Being a part of the publishing world as a writer as well as a publisher’s reader, Mrs Pinto gave students pointers on how to navigate publishing their works.
The session drew to a close with a Q&A session, with aspiring writers in the audience asking Mrs Majella Pinto their queries on how to overcome writer’s block, how to deal with self-doubt in writing and why pieces of work are usually rejected by publishers. The session was practically useful for budding writers of fiction and nonfiction
