As part of the fifth edition of the ‘Future’s Writers’ programme, Qatar Charity (QC) has launched an advanced training forum for winners of the fourth edition with the aim of continuing to develop their story-writing skills.
Some 24 students from primary, preparatory and secondary schools and Qatar University (QU) participated in the event.
The training forum will continue until April for the participants, who are divided into three levels (primary, preparatory and secondary, and university), with each level receiving five training workshops, QC said in a statement.
The first event of the training forum included three workshops on various topics such as creative writing, the idea and elements of a story, and the plot in a short story.
The first workshop, which was delivered by writer Youssef Baalouj, was titled ‘The Idea and Elements of the Story’. It was for primary school students.
The workshop also included practice.
Baalouj expressed his delight at the response from the participants and their eagerness to learn new skills, develop their capabilities, and improve their talents in the field of story-writing.
He also noted that such workshops would contribute to transforming their story-writing hobby into a constant interest in this domain.
The second workshop, presented by Dr Imtenan al-Smadi from QU, was titled ‘Creative Writing’. It was dedicated to preparatory and secondary school students.
Al-Smadi said creativity is the production of something new, useful, original and socially acceptable, and it solves a problem logically.
The third workshop was delivered for university students by Dr Abdelhak Belabed, associate professor of Literature Theory and Comparative Literature at the Arabic Language Department, QU.
The workshop was about the plot in the short story.
Dr Belabed touched upon the components, shapes and elements of the plot in the story.
At the end of the workshop, he analysed some stories, explaining how to build a plot in the story.