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

This workshop attempts to realise the writer in each of us. It will help people who want to improve their creative writing skills in writing fiction and nonfiction. Remember, as John Dryden once said, "The chief aim of the writer is to be understood."

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: Tips on Writing using 'loose construing' method

Programme details

~ There will be six sessions of two hours each.

Where: The Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai

When: September 20, September 27, October 4, October 11, October 18, October 25

Time: 6:30 pm

Fee: Rs 3,000

Important date

~ Last date for registration: September 17

How to register

~ You have to register and pay the workshop fee (Rs 3,000) at the Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai.

~ Please collect reading and writing assignments for the first class at registration.

Address

Xavier Institute of Communications (XIC)
St. Xavier's College
Mumbai -- 400001

Phones: (022) 22621366, 22621639, 22622877

e-mail: renu@rediffmail.com

Web site: http://www.xaviercomm.org

About Renu Balakrishnan

~ She attended a Masters 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.

~ Her interests include releasing the creative spirit in people.