IF you are looking for something constructive and educational to keep your teenager busy during the upcoming July holidays, consider signing them up for a creative-writing course to keep their minds active and build their creative-writing skills.
Durban-based creative, educator and healing expert, Mara Schillaci, is running a short holiday course of four two-hour sessions in central Glenwood. The course is aimed at high school learners keen to develop their creative-writing techniques and gain experience in writing.
Schillaci has taught a number of different modalities, both creative and theory-based, for almost 20 years, including teaching English to foreign students.
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“After having run creative-writing, journaling and art-book classes for adults, I was approached to run a class specifically for high school learners, for them to practise creative writing, journaling and self-expression through the medium of writing,” she said.
The educator says that a young learner will take away a number of lessons and skills from the course. “These skills could be adapted to encourage essay-writing, poetry, lyrics-writing, blogging, short-story writing and creative expression.”
The course will cover: choosing a genre; choosing a writing style; how to craft a storyboard; creating a plot outline; developing characters and character motivation, and exercises on developing descriptive techniques.
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The course will run on the following four days in July: July 5, July 8, July 12 and July 15. They will start at 10:00 and run until 12:00 in a central venue in Glenwood – the address will be provided by Schillaci after booking.
The course will be conducted in English, but learners can write in the language of their choice.
Pen and paper and class notes to be provided.
For more information, or to book, contact Mara Schillaci on 072 896 3898 or email: mara@maitrayaenergy.co.za
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