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Hone your creative writing skills

April 10, 2006 13:00 IST

What: Creative writing expert Renu Balakrishnan is organising a workshop for students and working professionals who want to hone their creative writing skills.

This course will help you use the classic techniques of story telling to write both fiction and non-fiction.

Course content

Session 1: Story structure in fiction and nonfiction writing -- complication/ resolution

Session 2: Plot

Session 3: Narrative design and voice

Session 4: Character and dialogue

Session 5: Setting

Session 6: Establishing the writer's routine

Programme details

~ There will be six sessions of two hours each.

Where: The Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai

When: April 20, April 27, May 4, May 11, May 18, May 25 

Time: 10 am

Fee: Rs 3,000

~ For more details, visit www.xaviercomm.org

About Renu Balakrishnan

~ She attended a Master's in Education course at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.

~ She has attended creative writing programmes at the New School, New York.

~ She writes book reviews for Elan magazine.

~ She has conducted writing workshops for teachers in schools and colleges.

Important date

~ You must register before April 18.

How to apply

~ You have to register and pay the workshop fee at the Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai.

~ You have to collect reading and writing assignments for the first class on registration.

Address
The Xavier Institute of Communications
St Xavier's College
Mumbai -- 400 001

Phones: (022) 22621366, 22622877

e-mail: renu@rediffmail.com

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