Meet the SHEROES - Bhumika Anand

Bhumika Anand is the Founder and Director of Bangalore Writers Workshop (BWW). She has a degree in Communicative English and a Masters in English. She has been a lecturer, a corporate trainer, editor, communications specialist, events coordinator, MC, a social media strategist, and a manager of online communities for over fifteen years. Her work has been published in Urban Confustions, The Affair, Bombay Literary Magazine, Out of Print, and is forthcoming in Queer Ink. She has been interviewed by The Delphi Quarterly, The New Indian Express, DNA, and the Deccan Chronicle. She is a disinterested cook, an intermittent but uncomfortably intense blogger at Bhumika's Boudoir, and an appreciator of the ridiculous. She lives and works out of Bangalore.

Bhumika Anand started the Bangalore Writers Workshop as an experiment and today it has grown into a wonderful aspiring albeit well known community of creative minds. Its her love of the written word that inspired her to start this.

So what is the BWW all about really? Let’s read on to find out more!

How did the idea of the Bangalore Writers Workshop come about?

?Quite honestly, we started out as something of an experiment, and for fun. Personally, I have found that getting feedback or another writer's perspective on a story I have written has helped me write better. Now, at BWW, we have a community of writers who also make dedicated readers on each other's works. And BWW ended up as a writing school for anyone interested in any kind of writing. 

 
What are the key objectives of the venture?

?To foster creativity and to build a community around writing. 

We want to be a school where people of all age groups can learn the craft of writing and take pride in their written work.  ?

 When it comes to unleashing your creative potential, what top 3 tips would you give people?

???When it comes to writing, these are three things I am constantly reminding myself. ?

?Read everything you can lay your hands on and form opinions on what you read.?

Just write. Write out your first instinct. Don't hold yourself back. 

Edit. Proofread. Edit. 

?Can you share a little about yourself (past work experiences and how they framed you to be who you are today)

?It's just a small exaggeration to say that I started my life writing and teaching. I started working when I was in college, training people in English, Business Communication, Grammar, Voice and Accent, and the like. I can't remember a time I haven't written for work or pleasure. 

?I have a degree in Communicative English and a Masters in English. 

?I have been a lecturer, a corporate trainer, editor, communications specialist, events coordinator, MC, a social media strategist, and a manager of online communities for over fifteen years. 

?I continue to work as a communications consultant, writing, editing, and advising on copy and content. ?So, this, BWW, seems inevitable.

 What words of inspiration would you give aspiring women entrepreneurs?

It really helps that I do what I have been trained to do, and that I love it as much as I do. So work, even if it's still 24/7, doesn't feel like a burden. The best thing ever is not having those corporate shackles around you and those annoying bosses to kowtow to, and knowing you are solely responsible for your work and how it shapes up

If that isn't inspiration enough to start out, I'm not sure what is. :)  ?