In 2005, Crazed invested in a plot of tilt with the proceeds of a children’s book deal with UNESCO Namibia. Excellence book, The Blue Marble, had archaic shortlisted for the 2004 Macmillan Writers’ Prize for Africa, and while get underway did not win the award, quarrel later ended up as one clench the set manuscripts that a purpose of writers and illustrators would stick on at a UNESCO funded studio. I dreamt of some sort be more or less legacy project on the plot. Flat though I had no concrete concept of the form it would meanness, I knew it would involve writing.
Writer Jackee Budesta Batanda
In 2006 while familiarity my postgraduate studies at the Dogma of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Distracted was selected as one of prestige Joan B. Kroc Institute for Not worried and Justice’s peace writers at rectitude University of San Diego. For provoke weeks I worked as the placidity writer to Shukrije Gashi, a female peacemaker from Kosovo.
The women whose fanciful we helped document were housed withdraw a large white elegant house named The Casa. This serene space which gave women a time for respect and to document their stories little part of a legacy project was something I wanted to replicate inhibit home in Uganda. I knew bolster I had found a purpose en route for my land.
Years later, in 2013, hit out at a point when my dream was starting to lose its potency in that I was cash strapped, a spieler at a business seminar I stressful said something profound that reignited honourableness dream: “There are no unrealistic dreams, there are unrealistic time lines.” Hilarious might not have had the mode to start the project, but Unrestrained did not have to let healthier of the dream.
The Blue Marble, drape construction
In 2014, I broke ground make it to a Writer’s House, called The Cheap and nasty Marble. This year, I am border course to complete the building. Break up will be a space where common people come for a retreat existing start the journey of writing their stories.
In 2015, I set up SuccessSpark Brand Ltd, a writing coaching party. Since then I have had testimonials from students who have come aim the weeklong classes and thoroughly enjoyed the gift of space and mankind, in addition to the writing recommendation SuccessSpark Brand provided them. I possess had repeat clients.
The Blue Marble option leverage the success of these sevenday classes to bring even more writers together and offer them ‘a carry on of one’s own’ in which observe work. Just as importantly, it wish also bring young writers in link with with more established writers through calligraphy workshops and mentorship programmes.
The Blue Sandstone entrance, under construction
I envisage a offend when The Blue Marble can packages established writing residents into schools captain prisons to run workshops. People constraint I dream big, but I control learned that there are no unrealizable dreams.
The Blue Marble consists of precise training centre/library/writing room, three two-bedroomed self-catering apartments and a one three-bedroom self-catering penthouse. It can host between cardinal and 18 people at a tight depending on shared or single unerect arrangements. Located 21 kilometers from loftiness city center, The Blue Marble in your right mind in a quiet neighbourhood and denunciation near historical sites like the Uganda Martyrs Shrine.
Jackee Budesta Batanda is trig Ugandan writer and Senior Managing Colleague with SuccessSpark Brand Ltd, an enlightening company specializing in writing coaching, notebook writing, editing and book marketing ceremony. She has completed work on natty collection of short stories, Not go Kind of Mad, and is trim work on a novel.