I loved the rhymes of the original poem - ‘My Daddy’ - and simply changed the protagonist’s gender to create a poem of my own. The poem was titled ‘My Mummy’, and it was completely plagiarized from our school’s annual magazine. I began my writing journey with a poem when I was around seven. How many people does it take to teach you to write? Ĭan writing be taught? Yes, I am evidence. She was an executive committee member of the Nepal Literature Festival, the country’s largest literary extravaganza, from 2012 to 2020.
Her personal essay on friendship during the times of Covid-19 is being published as part of an anthology by Yoda Press in early 2022. From 2018 to 2019, she wrote the book review column Page Turner for The Kathmandu Post. Her anthology of short stories for young adults, Fifteen and Thr3e Quarters, was published in 2011. Richa Bhattarai is a writer and book reviewer from Nepal. Bhattarai - for inspiring us to share the creative joys of storytelling and writing with young learners. But maybe even more importantly, it creates a lifelong taste, a hunger, for learning and storytelling. Such practice builds skills and confidence. They spend weeks, sometimes months, preparing. And I know a family that, at holiday times, has all the young cousins work together to write and perform short, funny homemade dramas. Richa explains how, with some encouragement from her father, she set out at age 11 to write her own book, and soon grew addicted to diary writing. My nephew grew to love books - even before he could recognize letters - because of nightly, after dinner “storytime,” which I describe in a Kathmandu Post essay called ‘ Teaching the Magic of Books ’. Akhilesh Upadhyay described in last week’s Writing Journey how radio stories about cricket captivated his imagination as a young boy. And it reminds how important encouragement from parents and adults can be. The essay reminds us how transformative reading, writing, and storytelling outside of the school curriculum can be.
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