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Women Writers' Festival 2018
On February 23rd and
February 24th,
SheThePeople.TV organized
the Mumbai edition of the
event Women Writers' Festival
2018. The event was held at
The Title Waves in Bandra on
February 23rd and at Goethe-
Insitut/Max Mueller Bhavan
Mumbai on February 24th.
The choice of two events
made sure that a larger
participation of the people
both from South Mumbai as
well as the suburbs.
The event focused primarily
on women writers including
both - fiction and non-fiction
writers. The topics of
discussion covered all the
genres and lifestyle followed
by the women writers, from
parenting from parenting,
speculative fiction, crime
writing, business writing,
gender issues, urban living as
well as new media like
blogging.
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Some of the eminent women
personalities were the
speakers of the event like
Annie Zaidi, Kiran Manral,
Sagarika Ghose, Meghna Pant,
Elsa Marie D’Silva, Anjali
Kirpalani, Aanam
Chashmawala, Ila Johari,
Prerna Sinha, Kavya D’Souza
et al.
One of the panel of the
Women Writers' fest
discussed on "The Business of
Blogging". Panel consisted of
famous bloggers across
versatile industries like
fashion, beauty, parenting
and writing. Prerna Sinha of
Maa of All Blogs, Aanam
Chashmawala of What When
Wear, Kavya D’souza of
StreakHueFall and Ila Johari of
The Fleamarket Queen talk
about the difficulties of
blogging, and what it takes to
be a successful blogger. The
panel was moderated by
Anjali Kirpalani.
Start with what you
have – whether
that’s a camera
phone or a DSLR.
You can slowly build
your blog with time.
It helps to freelance
or work part-time
while starting out as
a blogger since this
gives you the
security of having a
fixed pay check
coming in at the
end of every month.
The issues faced today and in
the past when it came to
blogging was discussed, the
sources of revenue, how to
create the brand identity of
the blog etc. were some of the
questions discussed by the
panelists.