WRITE
& WIN
We Teach You How to Think
We Teach You Style
We Explore the Magic of Words
We Demystify Grammar
We Introduce the Genre
We will Help You Write Your First Book
Can an apple change your destiny? It made Isaac Newton
think; it made Isaac Newton discover. You must discover something before you
write.
And you must say it in style. Style is the rhythm of
ideas and words, flowing into sentences. When your mind captures the rhythm of
ideas and words, the world takes notice of you.
Whether you write an answer in an exam hall, or you
write an application for a job, you are the winner because you wrote in
style.
Critical thinking improves the quality of your thinking,
which in turn improves the quality of your writing. Not just writing, but it
improves the quality of your living.
Grammar is glamour when you understand the basics; it
is the symphony of words and the melody of the senses in sentences. And a good
vocabulary boots your confidence level.
Subjective writing and objective writing are poles
apart. Your emotions and experiences are the driving force in subjective
writing, while your reason and analysis play a crucial role in objective
writing. Subjective writing leads to the Wonderland of Fiction, while objective
writing, the Intellectual Ivory Tower.
To be a successful writer, you must master the genres:
narrative, descriptive, dialogue, exposition, analysis and reasoning.
Join Global
Media School and be a winner by developing a style that instantly wins
applause. We take you through 10 assignments, which will be critically
evaluated and edited for improvement. The lessons you have learnt with us will
stay all your life, correcting, guiding and inspiring. Come and enjoy the great
leaning experience.
Remember,
you will be privileged to be personally guided by an author of seven books: WRITING TO WIN: STYLE & GRAMMAR; SEVENTH SENSE : A Reply To The Da
Vinci Code; WRITING FOR THE MEDIA; TRUTH, IMAGES & DISTORTIONS: A View Of
The Indian Press; WOMEN OF DESTINY; BEHOLD A SAINT; JIMMY CARTER: From Peanuts
To Presidency.
And by someone whose former students are on
Television galaxy: Rahul Kanwal, Executive Editor, Headlines Today; Sairah
Jacob (New York) & Sweta Rajpal Kohli, NDTV; Rahul Shiv Shankar &
Sanket Upadhyaya, Times Now; Gaurab Kalra, Sports Editor, & Mugdha Kalra,
CNN-IBN.
Don’t
miss this opportunity!
How to enroll
THE
Fee: Rs 10,000/
Payable
by cheque/draft in favour of
SUNNY
THOMAS
Director
Global
Media School
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Note:
Mr Sunny Thomas has shifted his residence from New Delhi to Kochi.
Bonanza
On joining,
a copy of Writing to Win: A Guide to
Style & Grammar will be gifted to you. You will also be given notes,
which you will study before doing the assignments.
Quality control
You may
need to rework each of the 10 assignments two or three times to make them worth
publishing. And in your new-found confidence, you might even want to try a
book. Onward young mind, onward to new frontiers!
ASSIGNMENTS
Choose any
10 assignments from the list, preferably 2 each from each of the genre.
Subjective
writing
(1)
The
story of my life (a story with a theme, characterization of family members and
friends, anecdotes, quotes, suspense, humour and a drop of tear, optimism
driving away cynicism, and a healthy philosophy of life)—600 to 800 words.
(2)
A
dream come true (Imagine that the dream of your life has come true, after years
of toil. Recall how you achieved it all by sheer determination and a stroke of
luck. Build up the transition from dream to reality, on a road paved with
obstacles, conflicts and self-doubt.
(3)
The
sort of girl/boy you would like to marry (with word-pictures, anecdotes,
conflicting values, parental influence, peer pressure, career and financial
security concerns).
(4)
The
person you love to hate (a humorous portrayal of life and times, highlighting
social foibles, jealousies, hatreds, rumours and rumour-mongers, and the
confederacy of flops)
(5)
The
person you admire most (a sort of role-model characterization, with winning
habits and exuding personal charm, citing anecdotes and quotable quotes that
make him a different person).
(6)
The
funniest man you have ever Met (a spectacle of contradictions, funny accent,
uses bombastic words that often misfire, a favourite dialogue and punch line
that’s the talk of the town).
(7)
A
riverside romance (an unexpected meeting at a time when the riverside was
deserted, meeting someone you have long wished to meet, running a course that
you most enjoyed but ended abruptly).
(8)
A
tale of two cities (describe the landmarks, lives and people of the two cities,
with a nostalgia for one and a secret admiration for the prosperity of the
other).
(9)
A
memorable day in your life (your birthday, a relative’s birthday, a wedding
day, an eventful day, a day wisdom dawned on you because you read a book, or
saw a movie that changed your vision, a day after your exam).
(10) Caught in a love triangle (we love
to be loved but some times you are in a bind, loving more than one person, and
not willing to let go the other person. Portray the inner conflict, balancing
it with the external reality of relationship, and sketching the profiles of
both the persons, their inner strengths and external charms).
Reasoning
(11) Virtual reality is destroying family
life!
(12) Democracy is the art of creating
chaos
(13) Higher education is producing mass
irrelevance
(14) It is America’s right to intervene
in the affairs of other nations
(15) Man never landed on the moon!
(16) Historians distort history all the
time
(17) President Obama, or Prime Minister
Manmohan Sigh: who’s doing a better job?
(18) Globalization is the ugly face of
civilization
(19) Innovative nations prosper while
lazy nations languish
(20) Humanity is on the verge of a
nuclear holocaust
Exposition
(21) Truth is the greatest religion
(22) Sex is not for sale
(23) Education must transform
(24) Poverty is an affront to
civilization
(25) Exploitation is a crime against
humanity
(26) Morality is not for preaching
(27) You can achieve almost anything, if
you are willing to work for it
(28) Greatness lies in winning hearts,
not in the acquisition of wealth
(29) God’s mill grinds slow but sure
(30) There is a tide in the affairs of
men
Analysis
(31) Is Pakistan a failed state?
(32) Is Indian democracy caste &
creed-driven?
(33) Is America the best model for other
democracies to follow?
(34) Could the euro crisis have been
averted?
(35) Can India be an economic
super-power?
(36) Are Indian BPOs snatching away the
bread of middle-class Americans?
(37) How advanced is india’s space
programme?
(38) Is human cloning ethical?
(39) Is a 1.2 billion population a
blessing or a curse for a country?
(40) Tea Party or Occupy the Wall Street
Movement – whom will the world follow?
Narrative
(41) Recount the events of the Arab
Spring
(42) How they occupied the Wall Street
(43) The death of Osama bin-Laden
(44) Oprah Winfrey’s recent visit to
India
(45) The story of Romeo and Juliet
(46) The tragedy of Hamlet
(47) One of the episodes of Harry Potter
Series
(48) A day in the life of Barak
Obama
(49) A day in the life of a chef in a
5-Star hotel/pilot/air-hostess/beautician
(50) The story of Helen Keller/ Florence
Nightingale/ Christopher Reeve
Descriptive
(51) Describe a person of stunning beauty
(eyes, nose, cheeks, forehead, ears, chin, neck, the body, the body language,
gait, mood, manner of speaking, personal magnetism)
(52) Capture a busy scene at an
international airport (describing passengers, their anxiety, their mood, the
operating system, the smart flying crew descending from a flight, the thriving
shopping malls, arrival and departure announcements, the deluxe buses ferrying
the passengers)
(53) Illustrate a Catch-22 situation (where
if you say no to a wealthy family proposal, you miss the opportunity of life to
become rich, and if you say yes, you will be a cog in the wheel of a mighty and
powerful family clan)
(54) The most enchanting place you have
ever visited (a hill station, a beach, a small town, a hamlet, a riverside, a
quaint cave. Immortalize the place with word-pictures, capturing sights, smell,
breeze, ethereal ambience)
(55) Describe the most blissful moment of
your life (a blooming romance, winning an award, chosen for the nation cricket
team, elected president of your college
(56) Give a blow-by-blow account of an
accident you have witnessed (in sequence or in flashback, beginning with the
most dramatic moment, and shedding rare insights)
(57) Recreate a miraculous escape you had
on road, rail or air (building up the tensed moments and the providential
escape)
(58) Recapitulate the most excruciating
moments of your life (a close relative in the operation and an hour of
agonizing wait, imaginary fears getting the better of you, haunting moments,
tension building up every minute till the door of the operation theatre opens
and the surgeon in appears. In the fraction of a second, you live the tension
of a million years! Then come the anti-climax: ‘Congratulations!’ says the doctor, and your spirit soars high,
so high that you almost thought you are a ghost!)
(59) Sketch a haunted house near a
country graveyard (eerie silence, broken by the cry of an owl, pitch dark with
bursting flames at random, giving rise to speculations of ghosts, witnessed by
many superstitious villagers, the hearsay of a young woman, believed to be
dead, appearing and instantly disappearing before passers-by)
(60) Sketch a sleepy village (where
almost nothing happens day after day, month after month, and year after year,
where a city-bird gets trapped living in incredible dismay, recalling life in
his metro and the absolute emptiness of this place)
Dialogue
(61) A dialogue between a fisherman and a
fish caught in his net (the fish pleading to spare his life as it is his
daughter’s second birthday)
(62) The lion and the fox had a date in
the jungle. Create an interesting dialogue.
(63) Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and
Iraqi President Ahmadinejad had a face-to-face.
(64) A tennis star and a fan
(65) A Hollywood actress and a fan
(66) A forest guard and a poacher
(67) A policeman with a human heart and a
thief
(68) A psychiatrist and a mental
patient
(69) A winning conversation between a boy
of wit and a reluctant girl
(70) A philosopher and a disciple
