There is a one-time registration fee to sign up with the challenge. BookLeaf Publishing plans to host this challenge every month. Registration to take part in #TheWriteAngle is open now. After the 21 st day, BookLeaf Publishing will publish the whole collection of submitted poems as a participant’s individual poetry book in both Paperback and eBook versions. The participant can also send poems they have written before. It's more about an experience worth remembering and an outcome worth cherishing.The FIRST-of-its-kind, # TheWriteAngle is a 21-days writing challenge program in which the participant has to write a poem each day for 21 days. "The challenge inspires confidence within the author who remains in control of each element of their book throughout. At BookLeaf Publishing, we aim to make authors feel at home with the publishing process, says Musavir. Besides, many of these authors at times are not even sure of their decision to take such a momentous step. Especially for first-time authors who are just beginning to venture into the business of getting their books out there, the entire process can be quite tortuous.
While writing down a book in itself is a task, getting it published seems to be more so. "The challenge is also an attempt to encourage the authors to pen these thoughts down on paper in an effort to make sense of what one has been through and as a reminder that bad times will eventually pass," says Shivangi. Letting it out allows a semblance of closure. People have been and still are going through unfathomable agony, trying to come to terms with the loss of loved ones, the feeling of helplessness and the sense of emptiness. Writing does that to you, making you talk to a paper about things you normally won't to living and breathing people around you," she says.Ĭovid and the lockdowns have taken a huge toll on mental health. To talk about their broken hearts, to commemorate their failures and successes, to thank the beauty around them, to address the social wrongs around, to write notes to self meant to be read some years down the line, to publish a person's scribblings and gift them on their birthday, to record blessings and lessons for their infants. "People have used the platform in innumerable ways to express themselves.
We wanted to change that," says Musavir Khurshid, CEO of BookLeaf Publishing.īut the challenge is about much more than developing a new habit, claims BookLeaf Publishing's co-founder Shivangi Verma.
"We realized that although close to 80% of the respondents wrote in some form or the other, only about 15% of them wrote regularly as a habit. The idea for the challenge was born of a short survey the company conducted amongst its team members and the authors who'd worked with it earlier. A consultant gets assigned to the author right at the beginning to make the entire process seamless and one-stop. The team then compiles these write-ups into a draft and helps the author out with formatting, editing and illustrations, if the author so chooses, before proceeding with the book's publishing. Once a participant registers for the challenge, they are supposed to submit a write-up - poems, diary entries, haiku, quotes, etc. With its 21-Day Writing Challenge, BookLeaf Publishing hopes to spur the authors into writing their hearts out and to continue doing so even post this three week period, a habit that's meant to stay. And this maxim is what BookLeaf Publishing banks upon to initiate one to a new habit - writing. Research says it takes 21 days to develop a new habit.
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