Creative Writing Lab: Experiment with Words
Why experiment?
A course by Karen Villeda , Writer and Editor
About the video: Why experiment?
Overview
“Why do we write and what do we need to write? In this lesson I will answer both questions. You will also learn more about the infinite possibilities of words, tongues and languages. ”
In this video lesson Karen Villeda addresses the topic: Why experiment?, 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
“Why experiment? In the last lesson I spoke to you briefly about the basic elements of three literary genres: narrative, poetry and essay. Next, we will talk about the experimental literature. Throughout the history of literature propositive works have always existed. For example, "The Epic of Gilgamesh" is a narrative poem, that is, it is a lyrical work that is also telling a story. In this lesson I will show you a couple of examples of authors, one of them is contemporary and the other is not, and so we can see how literature has always been a source of experimentation throughout history. ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing Lab: Experiment with Words
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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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