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Blog Writing: Find Your Personal Style

Influences

A course by Alaíde Ventura Medina , Blogger and Writer

Blogger and Writer. Houston, United States.
Joined June 2020
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About the video: Influences

Overview

“We owe ourselves to our readings and to those who taught us to look. In this lesson I will tell you a little about the women writers who have helped me the most to outline my daily writing, from Vivian Gornick for personal writing to Jorge Ibargüengoitia for opinion writing.”

In this video lesson Alaíde Ventura Medina addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Blog Writing: Find Your Personal Style . Develop the habit of writing daily and create a blog with your own voice that engages your readers .

Partial transcription of the video

“Influences For me, a personal blog is a way of ordering the world, to make sense of what I am seeing. I will tell you a little about the influences that have marked me the most. For starters, there's Vivian Gornick. She helped me make sense of what I wanted to tell and why he did it in a certain way. She is an American activist and writer who has dedicated himself to writing personal narrative, Above all, he has dedicated himself to writing about personal narrative, that is, how to do it. For her, there are two intersecting lines: the situation and history. Kind of like your own story in gr...”

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Course summary for: Blog Writing: Find Your Personal Style

  • Level: Beginner
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Alaíde Ventura Medina

Alaíde Ventura Medina
A course by Alaíde Ventura Medina

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Blogger and Writer

Alaíde Ventura is a blogger, Twitter content creator, and writer specializing in fiction, autofiction, and anthropology. Her books Como caracol (SM) and Entre los rotos (Random House) have been well received by critics and have earned several awards.

Alaíde's writing spans multiple genres, including novels, stories, personal essays, and chronicles, but she admits that her favorite format is the blog. She has written for media outlets like Canal Once, MTV, The Washington Post, and Time Out. She is currently studying an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso


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Blog Writing: Find Your Personal Style . Marketing, Business, and Writing course by Alaíde Ventura Medina Best seller

Blog Writing: Find Your Personal Style

A course by Alaíde Ventura Medina
Blogger and Writer. Houston, United States.
Joined June 2020
  • 97% positive reviews (282)
  • 6,513 students