After diaries, blogs and social media, websites are now wooing young storytellers with a wider platform and audiences just a click away.
Remember the time when you kept a diary — scribbling poems, stories, doodles and interesting finds? And then the Internet entered our lives and blogs became our diaries! Writers published their stories with fancy pictures and waited for the World Wide Web to read their blogposts. But now, blogs too have become passé. So now, for these budding writers there are digital storytelling websites where their writing gets them instant feedback with comments, likes and shares by loyal members. And all you need to do, is sign up!
“Technology is the easiest way of reaching out to people, to connect with them and to let them into your world,”says Sumit Saurav, founder and CEO of campusdiaries.com. Founded eight months ago, the site is built on the concept of community blogging. “Communities can be anything. Your school, college, workplace... and all of them are brought together here.” In fact, it was the concept of immediate feedback that pushed Srijan Srivastava who started writerbabu.com a few months ago. “It takes a lot of time to build a good blog. With great content, you also need an audience and that’s what most writers don’t get. Apart from your friends and people do you know who else reads your blog?” he asks. “But here, you submit your work and instantly at least 20 people read it and comment on it too.”
While on these sites you can upload anything you like — short stories, poems or even personal experiences, there are also sites that are socially inclined. “The youth today has a voice but no proper channel to let it out. They have intelligent opinions and thought-provoking solutions but nobody hears them out. Hence, I started youthkiaawaz.com, where they can talk, listen and discuss,”says Anshul Tewari, CEO and editor-in-chief. “These websites are like mini-blogs. While there are young writers out there, a good, creative platform was lacking. There is social media but that is not dedicated to just writing,”says Sumit. While these websites are your own personal space, a website like comeseizetheword.wordpress.com is very different. “I love magazines and so I decided to start an online magazine,”says Shruti Bharath, editor.
These tools for digital storytelling give young writers instant recognition on a large platform — two things that any writer would love. “It’s not just another website or a platform. It’s more like a book. A community of people joined together by their love for stories and storytelling,”says Sumit.
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