Nonfiction Writing: Tell Your Unique Story
Using Both Ends of the Pencil
A course by Eileen Truax , Journalist and Writer
About the video: Using Both Ends of the Pencil
Overview
“Your first draft is ready. You might be surprised: you thought it was going to be hard, but now you have, two, three, five whole pages. Now it’s time to review and erase. ”
In this video lesson Eileen Truax addresses the topic: Using Both Ends of the Pencil, 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
“Using the Two Ends of the Pencil Okay. By this point, your first draft is ready. So, what's next? Well, in this lesson, we are going to review our 2, 3, 5 pages, whatever your text has, and we are going to make adjustments, and maybe erase some parts. That sounds awful, but it's going help us to have a neat, and more accurate text. There's a phrase attributed to Ernest Hemingway: "To write you have to use both sides of the pencil, the tip and the eraser." I don't know if that's actually something that Hemingway said, but this is something that Hemingway said. In 1934, Hemingway was talking ...”
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Course summary for: Nonfiction Writing: Tell Your Unique Story
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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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