Writing Creative Non-Fiction 
 
The course on Creative Non –Fiction will expand and amplify the initial ideas that make creative writing / creative non-fiction, features and experimental literature. These sessions will lead you into experimenting and working with creating images , sketching characters, writing dialogues , setting scenes, writing’ Flash’ and so on . Short readings from some of the best published authors are samples that will offer renewed perspectives.
(The weekly writing assignments that grow out of readings will focus on new craft elements and new approaches to craft. In addition, the attempt would be to engage with many of the options available to writers of fiction/ nonfiction: scene versus compressed narration; incorporating research; building region specific, culturally revealing worlds; exploring the act of memory in creating effective outlines and stories. 
This short term course runs into 20 hours, once /twice during weekends
Session -1
Story telling – Conversations and writings 
Session -2
Why read?
Session -3
Writing Worlds 
Session -4
Skills for critical thinking: Texts and Contexts
Session-5
From critical to creative skills: Creativity Strategies
Session -6
Creative Nonfiction
Session-7 
Why creative Non –fiction?
Session-8
The Vein of Jade: Restraint in Nonfiction
Session-9
Ideate –Readings that help create characters, places and shapes …
Session-10
Ideation: Exploring taboo and the darker, deeper elements 
Session -11
Words as Images 
Session -12
Research  in writing 
Session -13
Character building
Session-14 
Setting 
Session-15
Dialogue 
Session -16
Voice