Open Mind Workshops presents:
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A One-Day Creative Writing Workshop with Ashok Ferrey
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Ashok is Sri Lanka’s best-selling author and has published 3 books of which “Colpetty People” remains to date the biggest selling book of English fiction by a local author writing in Sri Lanka today.
Both “Colpetty People” and “The Good Little Ceylonese Girl” were shortlisted for the prestigious Gratiaen Prize (in 2002 and 2006 respectively). “Serendipity” was shortlisted for the 2010 State Literary Prize.
This workshop will be of interest to writers of English. If you think there is a book in you that is waiting to be published or if you are into short-story writing or simply want to improve your writing style (for journalism, blogs etc) then this workshop is for you.
Price: Rf. 500 (adults) Rf. 250 (students grade 8-12)
Venue: Maldives Centre for Social Education (MCSE) Conference Room
Scheduled Date: Saturday, 5th November 2011
Time: 9:00am to 4:00pm
Topics:
- Timing : The use of it in language
- Style: Can I grow it at home or buy it from the supermarket?
- Creative fiction and creative non-fiction
- How to disguise your journalism so it doesn’t taste like overcooked cabbage
- 8 easy tricks to make your writing more readable
- Characterisation and description
- The use and abuse of the adjective
- Narration: First, second or third person? And do we care?
- The great debate: Maldivian English vs. “proper” English
- How to write dialogue
- Plot construction: Beginnings, Endings, Middles
- Layering: Text and subtext
- Content: Do writers have to have a social conscience?
- How to write the perfect short-story
- Humour: Who needs it?
- Plotting your novel
- The difficulties faced by a first-time writer or novelist
- Proof-reading your novel
- How to get your work published
- Publishing costs (in Sri Lanka), problems of marketing, sales