A New Award to All Deserving Bloggers

Yesterday  one of the first few people I connected with online, Elizabeth Varadan passed me an award invented by her - The Helping Hand Award  It was a lovely surprise and one I will cherish. The other recipient of this award  is Lia Keyes, creator and administrator of  Scribblerati. Ideally I would like to pass this award to both Lia and Elizabeth. They are the reason I started blogging. But that would be unfair.

I am going to pass  the Helping Hand Award to All My Lovely Blogging Friends. I will just use  few sound bites to mention  two lovely ladies  ( if I mention everyone's names the post will be too long) who have helped me in innumerable ways, they are Birgitte Necessary of Necessary Writers  and Sheryl Gwyther.

Birgitte and I met on my blog when I wrote about my spiritual master Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi) who co-incidently happened to be Birgitte’s spiritual master too.  We connected big time. Our initial chats  started with Amma and our  Spiritual journeys and moved onto our writing lives. The more I am getting to know Birgitte, the more selfless I find her.

I was quite technologically challenged when I started blogging  ten months back. It was Birgitte who would guide me via Facebook chats on how to add links and pictures on my blog. Everytime  I was stuck while writing my current WIP, Birgitte  like Lia, would leave aside her work and brainstorm during Facebook chats. It helps to talk about tricky knots in plots with writing friends. Their feedback helps untie these knots and makes us see things from a different perspective. Birgitte has helped  me a lot  me by sharing several writing resources (she  emails them to me) and then during our chats guides me to use them correctly.

Australian Children’s  Author Sheryl Gwyther is another lovely lady who has enriched my writing life. She is equally generous with her time and tries to help and promote  as many writers as she can. From writing about my blog in an Australian newsletter to  sending me links to important sites, Sheryl like Lia, Elizabeth and Birgitte keeps herself very busy trying to help me. 

It’s been wonderful connecting not just with these four writers and bloggers, but also with each and every one of you. You all have helped me in several ways, have made me see the flaws in my writing. Have shared links, writing resources and tips which has helped me grow as a writer.  I am passing  this award to everyone, and  I hope they pass it on to few more people. This is one award circle I  wish and hope becomes bigger and bigger engulfing more and more people. I think we all are trying to help each other in our writing journeys and we all deserve this award.

If you haven’t met any of these four lovely ladies, its time you amended that. Drop in on them and say Hi from my side. I promise you, you won’t regret it.

Thanks to each and every one of you for helping me in my writing journey. I hope you will display this award on your sidebar and pass it onto few  more bloggers. Its time we showed our solidarity and expressed our gratitude to the Helping Hands.