Writing Your First Novel is a course in the Creative Writing and Authorship track, delivered by Al Qurain Training Center in Doha, Qatar, and taught by the novelist Anwar Abdulrahman Al-Taneeb. It focuses on testing the idea, building characters and plot, outlining chapters and writing the first chapter, and ends with a certificate of completion in cooperation with the International Business Council.
After this course, you will be better prepared for
- Testing your idea: can it carry a whole novel?
- Building characters who change with events.
- Mapping the plot and outlining chapters before you write.
- Writing and revising your first chapter.
Who is this course for?
- Short story writers moving to the novel
- Writers who started a novel and stalled halfway
- Anyone who has carried a novel idea for years
- Graduates of Creative Writing Foundations
What do you receive?
- Course materials and sample novel outlines
- An applied project: your novel's outline and first chapter
- Exercises in character and plot, with the trainer's notes on your chapter
- A certificate of completion from Al Qurain Training Center, in cooperation with the International Business Council
Why this programme?
The course is taught by a novelist with two published novels: "Headline Woman" (2017) and "Orphans Who Do Not Deserve Love" (2024). She builds your novel's outline with you chapter by chapter, then reads your first chapter and writes her notes on it.