WRIting ProjEctS (WRIPES)

As WRIPE - 6 move forward with its team of aspiring authors busy writing and excitedly preparing for the oncoming  World Asteroid Day 2020 , one of the team's highest performing personalities sits down to have a friendly chat with Chinthaka Nanayakkara - the Chief Organizer of the Writing Project.    Q - K. H. Baker! Or should I call you Kathy? A - Kathy is okay. Q- I see your English is perfect. But your mother tongue is Spanish, right Kathy? A - Yeah, that’s right. I'm also conversant in English; it's a language that I have alway liked. Q - You write in English and Spanish. Are there any other languages you use? A - At the moment no. But in the future, maybe I would translate to Italian or Japanese because they are other languages ​​that I love. Q -  Kathy, tell me something about your early days in literature. A - Well, I started to be interested in literature when I was a child. The first book I read was a collection of stor...

Hi! Welcome to WRIPE-6, the 6 th WRIting ProjEct organized by Sweek’s former Brand Ambassador ChinthakaNanayakkara for World Asteroid Day Celebrations ! Participating in this project will make you a well recognized mini e-book author in the Sweek community, will bring you a heap of Likes, Follows and Comments to your book, and if you are really lucky, your book will be featured in promo videos and personal blog posts made by Chinthaka Nanayakkara himself!     Okay, no time wasting. WRIPE-6 will reach its culmination on 30 th June 2020. Only very limited time available for you to write your 600 word mini e-book, get it edited, win your book cover, upload it to Sweek and actively start becoming popular in the online literary world:) The promoting of your book is not done by you:) It is personally handled by Chinthaka Nanayakkara! So here are the steps! STEP-1 Drop a simple ‘count me in’ message to writesupp@gmail.com which is the personal ema...

Hi! The World Water Day 2019 is fast approaching! You have already published your mini e-book on Water Day and expectantly waiting for the great day to arrive, no doubt! Here is another secret tip to make your mini e-book popular and more attractive to Wattpad readers who haven't yet discovered your presence within the platform! Add the official video on WRIPE-5 to your mini e-book! It certainly gives your book a really professional appearance! Here are the steps. Log on to Wattpad and click on your user name on the right side of the screen. Top right if you are on PC. I don't recommend you to do this on mobile :( Bit too risky. What if the whole book is deleted accidentally? Oh no! Click on 'Works'  Wattpad will show you all the 'works' you have so far published. 'Works' means e-books - more or less. Pick your mini e-book that you published :)  Then the following screen will appear. Again click on the title of the mini e-...

So we reach a much anticipated milestone of WRIPE 5 - releasing its official promotional video featuring the top performers in the first round of this exciting writing project who enthusiastically joined hands with me to showcase their mini e-books focusing on World Water Day 2019. Cynthia Williams alias Tanushree Chowdhuree, publishing her mini e-book 'Rakhog, Himachal Pradesh, India; Water for All; Leaving No One Behind' with its Hindi and Korean translations as well, won the day by scoring first place in WRIPE 5 In addition to be featured in the promo video, she was immediately promoted to Manager - Hindi and Manager - Korean for WRIPE 5 and its subsequent literary activities. She is delighted to work for me on volunteer basis so long she is not busy with her studies and work. 'Rakhog, Himachal Pradesh, India; Water for All; Leaving No One Behind' is written in a very practical sense with a 'down to earth' mood. Describing the crisis situati...

It is with pleasure I take this opportunity to inform my dear fellow writers of WRIPE-5 (and of course, all other aspiring writers around the world waiting to join me with their 500 word drafts) that United Nations Water has taken the ‘much awaited’ decision of registering WRIPE-5 as an event for the World Water Day 2019. WRIPE-5 is the 5 th  Writing Project I have organized since the debut of the concept in early 2018. Each WRIPE is aligned to a key UN initiative that addresses a particular threat that may challenge the existence of mankind. In this instance it is about a future water crisis in our world.   My heartfelt thanks go to Ms. Anna Nylander Norén - Digital & Community Specialist of UN-Water in Geneva, Switzerland who rendered me great support in considering my application and registering the event. In fact, it was she who first reminded me about the World Water Day 2019 with its theme of ‘water for all – leave no one behind’ through her...

As you can see from my previous blog posts, my fifth Writing Project on World WaterDay 2019 went in to effect from 1 st January 2019 onwards. At the moment SEVEN mini e-books are published on Wattpad, drafts of which are written and edited thanks to Google Documents. Book covers were made by the help of Canva.com. Without either of these facilities my WRIPES would have been next to impossible J However my fellow authors keeps raising a popular, yet desperate query: “Chinthaka, this mini e-book is reasonably good. I wrote it. You edited and enhanced it. You even designed an eye catching book cover for it. Overall, there is nothing wrong with the book. Yet, it attracts very few readers. None has voted for it. I can’t understand this. Is there anything more I should do?” The short, cold answer is, “Yes. Plenty”. However, I do not wish to evade the issue that way. Let me elaborate on the subject step by step and explain to you in detail, how to make your book popular ...