Article & Blog Writing Course (Live, Online, Small group)
December 7, 2025 – December 14, 2025
This Article & Blog Writing Course is about high quality writing. Whether you’re writing for your personal blog or for someone else, in this Article & Blog Writing Course we teach you how.
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We start with the Why. Why are you writing? To convince? To entertain? Or inform? And of course, we need to know who are we writing for.
That clarity guides your writing. That also directs your research and helps make your writing persuasive.
Then you start writing, and you may get what Anne Lamott calls “Shitty First Drafts” – three words that are crass and beautiful at the same time. Crass for obvious reasons. Beautiful because Anne Lamott goes on to write, “…All good writers write them. That is how they end up with good 2nd drafts & terrific 3rd drafts”
Not-so-great first drafts are the raw material for great article & blog writing.
While writing that first draft, you also think about what angle can you give to your argument. Let us talk about the rampant practice of awards being sold a.k.a vanity awards. The most predictable (yawn) angle could be the upright examination of the ethics of buying an award. A satirical angle could be could be talking about awards as a form of therapy. Yet another could be writing a “buyers guide” to awards.
The angle you take can be refreshing and interesting. It can help you hook the reader, but it will need a strong title, sub-title, and a brilliant opening line.
Having finished our first drafts, we now must clean up and finalize our writing. Edit the words into the best arrangements possible: their best selves. This Article & Blog Writing Course shows you how to turn a bad first draft into a good second draft into an awesome third draft. We edit our article not just for language – that’s the easy part. we also edit for flow, structure and clarity.
We don’t discuss these things in theory. you will start the course with an article you’ve written, and then caress, tweak and make it into a much better piece. Often, participants abandon their first draft and create a fully new article during the workshop.
Editing and research differ from writing, but a content writer needs to know these as well as she knows writing. Writing is creative, right brain stuff where you want your brain to wander and take trips – sometimes induced. Editing and research are grounded, rational and logical – the opposite of trippy.
This three-day Article & Blog Writing course will help participants master the art of writing great blog posts & content.
The online course is not one way communication. It is live. Interactive. Personal. Only the Himalayas are replaced by your bedroom window. But the teaching and the camaraderie remain unchanged.
This workshop is spread over three days: December 7th, 13th and 14th, 2025. 10 AM to 1PM IST each day.
During these three days different aspects of article and blog writing writing. (Day-wise detailed program is shared in the section given below)
Participation in this workshop is limited to 10 only and we enroll approved participants on a first-come first-served basis. To enroll, please fill out the form below. It helps us get to know you better as a writer, and also as a fit for this workshop.
About the Instructor
CHETAN MAHAJAN
Chetan Mahajan leads this course. Chetan has spent two decades working in on-line learning, both in the US and India. He has taught on-line as far back as 2006 as a faculty member at the University of Phoenix online.
Chetan is a Penguin-published author and an award-winning blogger. Chetan and his wife Dr. Vandita Dubey (also a published author) moved to the Himalayas five years ago. There they founded the Himalayan Writing Retreat. Chetan is now a full-time author and works as a writing coach independently as well as with the London based the writing coach. He also writes for The Mint, Outlook Magazine, HT Brunch, Reader’s Digest and Hindu Business Line.
Detailed Program – Article & Blog Writing Course
Pre-work: Everyone is expected to write and submit an article on any topic of their choice. Detailed instructions will be shared with all confirmed participants.
Day 1
- Review and discussion of each of the submitted articles.
- Understand how an editor evaluates a proposed article.
- Deep dive into topic selection.
- What is an angle? What angle should you take on the article to make it attractive to an editor?
- How to write a killer headline.
- How to craft an opening line.
- Close the day with homework on your headline and Opening lines.
Day 2
- The process (and joy) of writing.
- Voice, Point Of View. What are they, and how to use them.
- Research – how much is enough, or too much?
- Structure and Flow of your article : The main argument.
- How to end your article well, and why it matters.
Day 3
- What is good writing? What should you edit for?
- Editing : Different types of editing.
- When does writing stop and editing start.
- Different types of publications and what each one wants.
- How to pitching your article to a publication.
- Should you pitch an idea or a full article?
After the course: Apply all your learnings and each participant submits a finished article within one week of the course ending. Chetan will review and give feedback on these.
FAQs
1. Why should I choose HWR Workshops?
Personal Attention: We don’t take more than 15 students in a class. You get a lot of personal attention and feedback. No classrooms of 20-30 people or one-way pre-recorded videos here.
Class Quality: For most courses, we filter our participants. You can’t just pay and sign up. We need to see a writing sample (in our application form) to ensure the class is of a uniform standard.
Cost per hour: Our courses are long and intense. As an example, the Creative Writing course is 18000 for 24 contact hours (3 days, 8 hours each day). The cost per hour = 750 / hour. That is comparable to many of the “cheaper” courses.
Quality of faculty: No lightweights here. Many of our faculty are award-winners. All are experts and great teachers. We don’t settle for average.
Feedback scores: Across courses, we are rated 4.5/5, or higher. You can read our reviews HERE.
2. Do I get a certificate of participation?
Yes, certificates are available on request.
3. Any discounts for students / other categories?
At the Himalayan Writing Retreat, we follow a strict No-Discount policy.
4. Is the workshop fee refundable?
Our cancellation policy is as follows:
For Physical Workshops:
- 100% refund (less 5% of total programme fee) on cancellation 40 days or more before the event start date.
- 50% refund if cancellation is between 20-40 days before start date.
- 0% refund if cancellation is less than 20 days before the start date.
For Online Workshops:
- 100% refund (less 5% of total programme fee) on cancellation 15 days or more before the event start date.
- 50% refund if cancellation is between 15 to 7 days before start date.
- 0% refund if cancellation is less than 7 days before the start date.
5. Is the Himalayan Writing Retreat a business or an NGO?
The Himalayan Writing Retreat is a social enterprise. It works closely and actively with two local NGOs in its community work initiatives: Chirag and Alaap. In 2020, HWR raised INR 6.1 Lakhs to support the Chirag School.
Have more questions? Feel free to write to us at info@himalayanwritingretreat.com or connect with us at +91 73035 16665 (call or WhatsApp).
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