Creative Writing Lab: Experiment with Words
Creative writing and literary genres
A course by Karen Villeda , Writer and Editor
About the video: Creative writing and literary genres
Overview
“I will start by talking to you about the importance of freedom in literature as a space for experimentation. ”
In this video lesson Karen Villeda addresses the topic: Creative writing and literary genres, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Writing Lab: Experiment with Words. Overcome the fear of writing by learning to combine literary genres such as narratives, poetry, and essays.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creative writing and literary genres It is time to talk about literary genres. Literature is of immense wealth. Each literary genre offers us an infinity of tools to make a text like the one we will do in this course. As I told you at the beginning of this course, we will explore the most basic elements of three literary genres: narrative, poetry and essay. From each of these genres, we will generate our text with which we will work throughout the course. We will start with the basic elements of the narrative. The main elements of a story are as follows: the narrative voice, the characters,...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing Lab: Experiment with Words
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Areas
Creative Writing, Creativity, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling, Writing
Karen Villeda
A course by Karen Villeda
Despite having grown up surrounded by books, Mexican writer Karen Villeda had a lot of difficulty learning to read. Her mother patiently taught her and, before long, she was reading pirate stories by herself, and at just 19, she published her first book. Karen believes that literary genres are interchangeable and can be combined, which is why she considers her writing to be a hybrid.
She has had more than ten books published, and her book Dodo (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro) won the Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven Elías Nandino in 2013 and is part of the Archivo de Literatura Hispánica en Audio. Karen's work has earned her more than fifteen prizes and she has also been writer-in-residence in the University of Iowa. She is currently an editor and gives classes in creative writing.
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