Media Release

Mangaluru, Dec 19: The PG and UG departments of English at St Agnes College organised a session on 'Orientation to the Writing World' on December 16. The resource person for the programme was Majella Pinto. Visual and literary artist, California. She is a published writer and her work has appeared in Lunch Ticket, eMerge Magazine, 42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42², 81 words, Dairy Hollow Echo and elsewhere.

Advising the young audience to 'write the book you want to read', 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.

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 Mangaluru 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, 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 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.