A new Fiction Writing workshop with author Riham Adly in collaboration with Maktoob Bookstore.

- Four sessions workshop.
-Held once a week on Saturdays from 11:00 am - 1:30 pm starting the 19th of August.

In this workshop you will be introduced to the elements of writing including :

Session One: Focusing on Show don’t tell. How to use figures of speech to show rather than tell.

Session Two: Characterization, dialogue and setting: You’ll learn how to study your characters using a chacater sketch template and how to reveal them and describe them using various techniques withing the narrative, you’ll learn how to use dialogue to reveal your characters and deliver your back story and you’ll learn how to reveal your setting and use it to further describe characters and move the plot.

Session Three: Plot, and how to plan your story and the narrative arc.

Session Four: The narrative voice: You learn various types of voice, the do’s and don’ts and mistakes writers fall into when choosing the narrative voice. Also we’ll introduce the narrative hook, as in how to hook the reader from the very first line using different approaches and techniques.

• At various points during this course you will take part in peer review exercises, submitting your own work and reviewing work posted by other learners.

• You'll come to discover - as you start to create stories - the best rules and lessons for you, the best ways for you to create characters - the best way for you to write.

• You'll be able to draw on your own experiences, and what you've read - your observations and imagination, your language and ideas.

• All assignments will receive an in-depth feedback with advice and comments on how to improve your writing.
• Students are to submit a final 1,000 word short story by the end of the workshop. Each story gets a detailed review and feedback.