Nonfiction Writing: Tell Your Unique Story
Breaking the Blank Page
A course by Eileen Truax , Journalist and Writer
About the video: Breaking the Blank Page
Overview
“In this lesson, I will give you some tricks to confront the blank page, and I’ll share them with you in case that they help you, but once you start writing, you will find your own tips and tricks to get the first draft of your story. ”
In this video lesson Eileen Truax addresses the topic: Breaking the Blank Page, which is part of the Domestika online course: Nonfiction Writing: Tell Your Unique Story. Learn how to write a compelling nonfiction piece that connects with readers by exploring the whys and hows behind every word.
Partial transcription of the video
“Breaking the Blank Page Well, we have all our information, and maybe the hardest part of all this process is actually starting to write. So, in this lesson, we are going to talk about ways to break the blank page. I'm going to show you the way I do it. I'm going to start doing it with my own project, and I hope these will help you with your project. So, what I'm going to do next is... I'm going to start writing my actual piece. I'm going to start putting the information that I think is the most important or the most relevant, or that that I really need to have in the article first. And also...”
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Course summary for: Nonfiction Writing: Tell Your Unique Story
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Areas
Communication, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling, Writing
Eileen Truax
A course by Eileen Truax
Eileen Truax is a journalist from Mexico City who has been based in the US for fifteen years. Books and stories had a major impact on her childhood, which soon developed into writing her own stories in the fifth grade. After high school, she was already writing news synthesis, scripts for radio commercials and for public television, articles about culture and business, profiles, and political chronicles. She holds degrees in Social Communication and Communication and Politics.
Today, Eileen writes for media outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Vice, Newsweek, El Universal, Gatopardo, 5W, and Americas Quarterly, among others. She has received the José Martí Publishing Award from NAHP; the Media Woman of the Year Award from the California Legislature, and the Desalambre Award for Human Rights Journalism. Eileen has also written four books that focus on migration and politics in the US and has contributed to five other journalistic books.
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