Creative Writing Techniques: Move Your Readers

influences

A course by Gustavo Rodríguez , Writer

100% positive reviews (64)

1,553 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: influences

Overview

“I will introduce you to three legendary characters who, in their respective trades, knew how to use the mechanisms of narration and who have inspired me in my different facets. ”

In this video lesson Gustavo Rodríguez addresses the topic: influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Writing Techniques: Move Your Readers. Discover how to use the fundamentals of a story, along with other writing resources, to weave words together in a way that captivates readers.

Partial transcription of the video

“influences In this lesson I am going to share with you some of my influences. Throughout my life I have followed many authors, but for this course I have done a special memory exercise and I have selected three authors who have greatly influenced me. The first, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, perhaps the greatest Peruvian short story writer and an author of brief but devastating essays. I read it for the first time when I was fifteen in this same book that I have here, so old and broken. At first I fell in love of their everyday stories about losers, but later i was dazzled by the technique behind the...”

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Course summary for: Creative Writing Techniques: Move Your Readers

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (64)
1553 students
4 units
13 lessons (1h 23m)
3 downloads

Category
Writing
Areas
Creative Writing, Narrative, Writing

Gustavo Rodríguez

A course by Gustavo Rodríguez

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Writer

Gustavo Rodríguez is a writer and the author of novels like La furia de Aquiles, La risa de tu madre, La semana tiene siete mujeres, República de La Papaya, Te escribí mañana, Madrugada, and more. He also writes short stories and books for children and young adults.

Apart from literature, he has written ads and articles and is the editor of an opinion website called Jugo de Caigua. He also wrote and produced Machista con hijas, a podcast for the platform Podimo, and was a collaborator for the magazine Etiqueta negra when it first started.