May 2024
What Do You Do When You Get Stuck?
<p>We all get stuck. Ask H.M. Naqvi, who has been writing professionally for two decades. "Writer's block" is a catchall for issues ranging from a crisis of confidence to a lack of clarity about an aspect of craft. In this class, you'll learn strategies and practical exercises to get you going in the short run. We'll also tackle methods to clear technical hurdles. It all begins with a conversation.<br></p>
Lecture replays are available after the free trial ends. To end your trial early, email brooke@inkedvoices.com .
About H.M. Naqvi
H.M. Naqvi is the award-winning author of Home Boy, which was hailed as a “remarkably engaging novel that delights as it disturbs” by the New York Times, included in both Guardian's “Top 10 Pakistani” and “Top 10 9/11” novels of all time, and won the $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2011. His second critically acclaimed novel, The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack, was characterized by National Book Award winner Ha Jin as “completely original in form and sensibility.” Over the years, Naqvi has run a poetry slam venue, worked in the financial services industry, and taught creative writing at Boston University and the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He has appeared on BBC World Service, CNN, and NPR, spoken at universities that include Brown, Columbia, Georgetown, and Harvard as well as the Adelaide Writer’s Week, International Literature Festival Berlin, PEN World Voices Festival, and the Jaipur Literary Festival. Naqvi is working on his third novel in Karachi.