CONTENT WRITING WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE

 My Experience in the 6-Day Content Writing Workshop.

Classrooms are something I have never liked throughout my educational journey. I would do anything to avoid sitting in a classroom and listening to long lectures. I am a person who believes in learning through experiences. This was how my student life went by and after my graduation, I tried my best not to get into any classroom-style education. I sort of succeeded too, to a certain extent. 

Most of my career life has been a 'Work from Home' kind of job. Slowly, I learnt to sit in one place and work. My ten-plus years of experience in English Proofreading and training made me passionate about editing everything I set my eyes upon. In the process, I did manage to successfully get on a few people's nerves. 

Even though I could edit/rectify what was written, I never ventured into writing something on my own. I secretly had this passion to attempt to write. That is when I started my own blog and just randomly scribbled something that I felt. Slowly, this secret passion got onto me more and I really wanted to give it a serious try. I wanted to write my thoughts and also do some copywriting jobs for companies. 

In order to give this a shot, I enrolled myself in a 6-day online workshop conducted by the ContentVidhya group. I have to say that it took me a lot of courage to join this workshop. I had tried a couple of writing attempts before but couldn't get anywhere to my satisfaction. 

First Day experience

Every day, the session was organized for two hours. I joined the first day of the workshop with all my inhibitions about attending a classroom-style course after a long time and also about my writing limitations. My trainer, Ms. Uma Madhavi, took the session in a very simple manner. I felt that her communication was straightforward and simple with no flamboyant style. Within the first hour itself, I got the feeling that she was communicating with me personally. I felt that the materials that she showed on the screen were very useful and I kept taking photos of them since they truly caught my attention. I have this habit of immediately clicking on my phone camera when something interests me and later I realized this is exactly what I was doing after seeing the useful slides on the screen. 

Rest of the Days' experience 

The initial three days went on very well and I was quite surprised to find that I wasn't bored at all 'in a classroom.' We were given some tasks to complete and this gave me the push (I needed) to write.....🖋🖋🖋🖋 The simple tips and tools which were shown in the sessions made me want to try writing. It was like someone had just removed a Road Divider from my path and I could freely drive ahead. Probably, this is called a "Writer's Block" and I glided over it smoothly. 

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Now, I am keen on completing all the tasks given on all the days of the sessions. This has also given me certain leverage for my mind to think ahead of the topics that I want to write about. A lot of resourceful links and materials were shared with us which would definitely help us in our future writing attempts. 

A small way to say a BIG THANK YOU to Ms. Uma Madhavi for an inspiring workshop and for opening the gates of my writing journey! 

A MEANINGFUL COMEBACK!

A MEANINGFUL COMEBACK

Hi! Am back again and this time probably with a Meaningful Comeback! When I started this blog randomly, I was just trying to go on to an adventure in social media with nothing else in mind. But, this time, I am back again for some purposeful writing and encouraging myself to get on to a new path - WRITING SKILLS!

Today, I am going to talk about my deep interest in watching a reality show on Television called "BIGG BOSS." I would say that I am addicted to this show and watch them in most of the Indian languages (Hindi, Kannada, Tamizh, Telugu) that are aired. I am constantly teased or advised by my people to stop watching this show which according to them is worthless. 

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The show is all about having a few people both commoners and celebrities, then keeping them in a single big house with zero contact with the outside world. They have their own lifestyle, daily activities, games, etc. They are a unit of their own and slowly we can observe human relationships building, breaking, rebuilding, etc. Finally, one person who is able to sustain throughout with a strong mind becomes the winner. 

Community Living: 

When I watch this show, I feel, observe and understand how human relationships work. I could see how humans live in a group and over a period of time, how they manage to adjust and co-exist with their accompaniments. This is where Community Living starts. I can relate this to even travel experiences where we meet people and in the entire journey, we learn to adapt to each other in that time period. It is great to watch the dynamics of human psychology and how each person is a different personality of their own. Then how each one reacts to a particular situation/s. 

Once I imagined that I got an opportunity to enter the Bigg Boss! I was also in the house with other contestants. Some of them were celebrities and I wouldn't have imagined at any point of time in my life that I would even meet them. But now, I am living with them! It felt like a dream coming true? I was in one of my favourite shows. I knew the dynamics of the show so well that I was able to assess my co-contestants quite well. But living with them and watching on Television were entirely two different experiences. 

Every word that was uttered had to be carefully mouthed since that would become the topic of the day if it was not accepted by any of the contestants. Since each contestant had a unique personality of their own, each one spoke their mind out aloud. I did notice some of them having a calm composure most of the time but they did become aggressive during the performance of tasks. 

I could relate that this is what happens to humans in the struggle for the survival of the fittest. How human behaviours change to different situations. All we need to do is keep a camera running around us the whole day. We can notice that we are living in a similar scenario, just like in a bigger Bigg Boss House!

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