Creative Writing Lab: Experiment with Words
Essay
A course by Karen Villeda , Writer and Editor
About the video: Essay
Overview
“It's time to talk about the essay. In this lesson you will learn how to write a short essay.”
In this video lesson Karen Villeda addresses the topic: Essay, 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
“Essay In this lesson we will work in the essay aspect of our experimental text. We will do it from our favorite object. I invite you to investigate a little more about the history of the object you chose. In my case, my favorite object is the book. I think that the easiest way to have an essayistic approach in a text it is from the history of an object. For example, a book. What do we know about a book? Let's check it out. In a dictionary or encyclopedia we found the basic definition of a book. We will first seek precisely the most basic definition that we have of our object. You can make u...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Creative Writing Lab: Experiment with Words
-
Category
Writing -
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.
- 97% positive reviews (60)
- 2,156 students
- 12 lessons (1h 20m)
- 16 additional resources (2 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
