Fiction and Non-fiction Writing Workshop by Gouri Dange

Whether you are a published or aspiring writer, or simply enjoy writing, this one-day workshop or ‘Writer’s Gym’ will help the writer in you limber up on these lines:
• Understanding your own writing aspirations
• Honing writing habits
• Getting into, and then past, the purely autobiographical
• Transforming the personal into the universal
• Producing fictitious characters, relationships and events
• The writer as prism; People watching. Animal watching. Eavesdropping.
• Depicting (showing, not telling) human relationships
• Inter-disciplinary creativity
• The interplay between creativity, inspiration and plain hard work
• Editing, rewriting, and evaluating your work
• Vocabulary building – working with words and making words work for you
• The craft of building fiction – the ‘what if’ way
• Writing fiction, non-fiction and faction
• Playing with various genres.
• Pacing oneself – quick turnover versus long projects in a writer’s repertoire.
• The balance between writing ‘for myself’ and writing-to-order. The craft and commerce of writing.
• What is the writerly life? The interplay of demands, realities, inspiration, bad days, good days; enabling and disabling situations and choices.
• Publishing options, tips, route-maps

About Gouri Dange: Popular columnist, novelist, editor and counsellor, Gouri Dange has been working and playing with words for the last 20 years. Her writing workshops draw a range of participants, where the emphasis is on helping people find their writerly voice. She is the author of three novels and two books of non-fiction, and is currently working on two more books. She has been published by Penguin, Random House, Jaico, Harper Collins. Her writings appear in national newspapers and magazines.

Join and/or gift a seat in this workshop.

What some earlier participants in the Creative Writing Workshop said:

“I especially liked the open style which stimulated discussion and your genuine interest in helping us find our writing path.”

“I found it very useful to kick-start some story ideas I had been keeping aside. It also helped me to see where I was falling short: character development, dialogues, etching negative characters well, good narration.”

“The important thing is you demonstrated how to be inspired by the simplest everyday things around us, and to write diligently and yet joyfully…and to go beyond the autobiographical.”

“You showed us the balance between inspiration and hard work for a writer.”