Creative Writing Foundations is a course in the Creative Writing and Authorship track, delivered by Al Qurain Training Center in Doha, Qatar, and taught by the author Anwar Abdulrahman Al-Taneeb. It focuses on idea, character, scene and dialogue in Modern Standard Arabic, with a writing exercise in every session, and ends with a certificate of completion in cooperation with the International Business Council.
After this course, you will be better prepared for
- Turning a general idea into a story with a beginning, a conflict and an ending.
- Building a character whose clear motive drives what they do.
- Writing scenes and dialogue that reveal character without over-explaining.
- Revising your draft and cutting what does not serve the text.
Who is this course for?
- First-time writers
- People returning to writing after years away
- Readers who want to try writing
- Teachers of composition and writing
What do you receive?
- Course materials and selected short texts to analyse
- An applied project: a complete short story you write during the course
- Writing exercises in every session and the trainer's notes on your text
- A certificate of completion from Al Qurain Training Center, in cooperation with the International Business Council
Why this programme?
Anwar Abdulrahman Al-Taneeb teaches the course. She has published eight books of stories, novels and reflections and has written for the press since 1988. She reads your text and writes her notes on it, so you can see where it works and where it needs revision.