Presenting the Pooja Press
BHUVANA BALAJI
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Check out the newsletter brought by a 11-year-old?
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"Pooja's Press!' is the newsletter of a versatile 11-year-old from New Jersey, U.S. . Pooja Casula has a passion for writing and says it makes her feel great having an audience. She has come up with three issues of the newsletter in about three months. It all started when she visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. “I wanted to read more about Hitler when I came back. So I decided that after learning the truth about Hitler I would write an article and send it for a newspaper. It never happened, so I made my own newspaper,” says said Pooja. Her her parents and her grandfather constantly motivated her but also made sure she did the work herself. When asked as to what is the biggest challenge she has been facing in scripting the newsletter, she says, “It is a little difficult to come up with ideas and putting them down in your own words. But I make sure that the topics I use are very interesting and that no one really writes about.”
Creative indeed!
A writer needs three things; experience, observation, and imagination. Pooja has got them in abundance and thrives to be a great writer. She has an experience of working for her school newspaper and she surely has come up with creative ideas which are seldom read by people. Some of them are “The story and life of Barbie, your favourite doll!”, “Hitler's story revealed”, “What do you know about internet safety?” and “Go Green”.
Good writing is about content, context, tone, organisation, flow and texture. She states that the challenge of writing multiple stories at the same time is really great and that one's writing skills have to be excellent to come up with something like this. The vital thing she keeps in mind is her audience and also uses the little space available in her newsletter very intelligently.
The most satisfying thing about her newsletter is when she finishes it.
As a solution to reach a larger audience, she explains that the only way to do so would be to meet different people and that she would definitely do that.
If you think that writing is her only passion, then you are mistaken. She is a multi faceted personality who is also into dancing, singing, basketball, and swimming. As one of the members of her school's Student Council, she is also into a lot of community work, the recent one being the donation of cell phones to help homeless people in Bridgewater, NJ.
“If you have a desire to do something, go do it and never look back until you have accomplished it,” says she.
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