Creative Writing 101

Are you a writer looking for ideas? A student who wants to know more about creative writing? A Language teacher who wants to share a writing resource with students? A parent who wants to inspire their children? Know someone who would find a writing reference useful?

Here’s a Creative Writing Overview video on the various forms and genres of writing. A Writing with Sandhya YouTube channel initiative.

I started the Writing with Sandhya channel in August last year and had a tremendous 1st season. The channel crossed 1000 subscribers in January and I interviewed 24 authors in various genres. Along the way, I celebrated a few personal accomplishments – Bookversary and trailer of Burma to Bangalore, launch of Garden of Neuro’s Blogging course, and a delightful birthday message from many of the authors I had interviewed, coordinated and compiled by my dear dot, Tarana aka Tiara Productions. A huge shout out to her as she records and edits all the videos and creates all the posters.

As a small token of gratitude to my writing fraternity, particularly my fellow authors at The Book Bakers, I share this video compilation of all my creative writing overview episodes on the Writing with Sandhya channel: Creative Writing 101

If you’d like to jump straight to certain topics, I’ve mentioned the time stamp.

So you want to be a writer? Form and media 4:10

Genre-illy speaking Writing genres 14:40

Fact or Fiction? Nonfiction genres 27:12

Fiction, faction, all that action Fiction genres 38:37

Short and sweet Short fiction 49:32

Poetry 101 Types of poetry 57:41

Hope you find this video useful!

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Quick Bio

I’m Sandhya Ranganathan. I wrote Mia finds a home, co-authored my father, Lt. Col. V.S. Ranganathan (Retd.)’s autobiography, Burma to Bangalore published by Locksley Hall Publishing, and my fiction novel, If-Then-Else will be released by Vishwakarma Publications later this year. My poems have featured in various anthologies. I have a WordPress blog Between the T(r)opics, and my web site is varnika.co. I am represented by The Book Bakers literary agency. My social media connects: https://linktr.ee/Sandhya.ranganathan