Dear all
The genesis of Ink Scribbles was simple. Creating a platform for closet writers to write their heart out and get feedback from like-minded people. We sent invites to over 300 people and to our great shock and surprise (our mouths are still hanging), we have over a 100 people on our Ink Scribbles group on Facebook and 170 members for our 25 word writing event with the theme ‘First’. Yippee!
In keeping with this theme, we decided to give out our first ever ‘Ink Scribbles Awards’ for our distinguished contributors. Personally, we would have liked to give everyone a prize, but unfortunately our pockets are not as big as our hearts…so maybe next time!
Here is the list of winners. Congrats to all of them and hope the others get it next time.
Lets begin the presentation ceremony.
*The fastest finger first award goes to……
Drum roll please……..!
Anjali Tambwekar! For being the first person to join Ink Scribbles. Thanks Anjali! We rest in comfort knowing that even if no one else had joined, we had your shoulder to cry on!
*The Bachpan ka Bachhan award goes to….
Swapna Pillai! For simply the most amazing childhood quips! Team Ink Scribbles requests you to remain bubbly and funny all your life and to give us an autographed copy of your quotes when it gets published.
*The shayar on fire award goes to…..
Dhwani Pathak, Purva Bhatia and Atiq Khan for their simple but touching stories.
*The ‘Wah! Kya boleli baap!’ award goes to…..
Smita Chakravorty for this story : “First view of the world….and everything is upside down….”. The line says it all. One of the masterpieces of our collection.
*The “Move aside or drown in my flood of words” award goes to….
Swapna Pillai, Brendon Buthello, Shramana Ganguly Mehta , Rajshekhar Tenneti, Krishnendu Mukherjee, Shivli Tyagi, Kesha Thakkar, Anand Birai and Lakshmi Ajay.We love you all. You are the rockstars of this community. It is not easy to express so much in 25 words but you seem to be the experts. Thank you so much for your support and your amazing posts!
*The ‘Words that took my heart away’ award goes to……….
Ravi Golani, Mahalakshmi Chandrasekaran, Anjali Tambwekar, Arundhati Gupta, Bhavisha Odedra, Daniella Ayeshaa, Prerna Wadhwa,Iris Saver,Tiyash Parira, Aneesha Dasgupta, Shivangani Dhawan, Omkar Acharya, Mukta Chakravorty, Aminah Sheikh, Vinay Vijayakumar, B, Foram Chhaya Pathak, Parth Shastri, Asha Krishna, Kenneth Adams, Bineka Sadhnani, Anish Jacob, Siny Anish, Arpita Vadgama , Prajakta Shaikh, Sonia Bedi, Anusha S Iyer, Chitra Unnithan, Deepa Seshadri, Vinay Umarji, Ishita Dave , Aarthi Jayaram, Khushboo Vyas, Ronak Rao , Yamini Dhall, Deepti Nair, Samata Joshi, Rajiv Varghese, Sudakshina Bhattacharya, Niti Thaker , Hirva Thaker, Viju Joseph, Benison Kuruvilla, Pu Robee, Bhaskar Dutta, Manasi Mulasi , Sowmya Nagarajan, Palak Shah, Beena Kuruvilla, Amita Amin-Shinde , Archana Iyer, Dipna Kirpalani, Kavita Pradyumnasingh Jhala, Lalit Advani, Palak Shah , Sibi John , Nidhi Singhania , Gargi Raval, Niyati Vachharajani , Maya Menon , Jasmine Chokshi, Nidhi Suresh, Arun Subramanian Venkataraman, Hari Prasad, Karthik Gottiparthy,Sahil Punjabi and P Sujesh Rajan.
You are all fantastic writers and your posts had great depth in them. Keep writing folks!
And finally…..
Drum roll again please….
We had asked our members to vote for a theme for the next event. Thanks all of you for your contribution. The winning idea selected by all of you is :
MASH-UP by Ravi Golani. Here is his idea.
“Lets create a Mash-up…. Everybody can keep adding to the story already flowing.. The only rule should be that it should not be aimed at throwing the other person down but encouraging addition to a story…
Isme draamaaa hoga… emotion hoga.. action hoga.. romance hoga… comedy hogi…
Howwzzzaaat??”
Well, we loved it Ravi. Thanks a lot for your suggestion. The rules for the event are also being posted simultaneously so join in on the action and scribble your heart out!
Before we call it a day we want to tell you folks that We at Ink Scribbles take your copyright very seriously. We understand each person has to take a Creative Commons license for their Facebook profile to retain copyright over their work. To make it easier, we have created a blog- inkscribblers.wordpress.com. This blog has the CC license which means you will have full rights over whatever you post there. We will soon post a note in our discussion tab on what is a CC, why you need it and how you can protect your creativity in an online forum.
Over and out!
Cheers
Team Ink Scribbles
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woah, awards and all. nice. thanks. bachpan ka bachchan 🙂 i hope this exciting new initiative doles out more and more surprises.