How can you start a story - the blank page in front of you - and - many attempts at writing and filled pages later - bring it to a fitting conclusion? How can you build up a text and create an arc of suspense? How can the characters appearing in the text be brought to life through writing? How do you make the text more vivid?

Together we will approach these questions and possible answers to them and practise using the appropriate literary tools. Texts written by the participants at home will be read and discussed together, and writing impulses will be offered. Writing experience is not required.

Course leader: Reinhard Försterling and Dr. Aneka Viering

Time: The writing workshop is planned as a series of events at roughly monthly intervals, each Friday morning from 9.30 am to 12.00 pm. The first course meeting will take place on Friday, August 25th, further dates will be arranged during the first course hour.

Location: Seniorentreff Salzgitter-Bad, Braunschweiger Str. 137a

Participation fee: Participation in the seminar is free of charge for course participants. Binding registration is requested.

The course is an event organized by the Literature Office of the City of Salzgitter's Department of Culture in cooperation with the Senior Citizens' Office of the City of Salzgitter's Department of Social Affairs and Senior Citizens.

Registration and information from the Literaturbüro (contact: Aneka Viering) on 05341 / 839-3752 or literaturbuerostadt.salzgitterde or from the Salzgitter-Bad senior citizens' office (contact: Gerrit Jobst) on 05341 / 839-2230 or seniorenbuerostadt.salzgitterde