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