Creative Writing Techniques: Move Your Readers

Overview

“In this lesson you will learn the difference between writing to inform and writing creatively. I'll also tell you about how fiction writing is similar to the illusionism of magicians.”

In this video lesson Gustavo Rodríguez addresses the topic: Why is writing an art?, 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

“Why is writing an art? In this lesson we will know the difference between writing to inform and writing creatively. In the beginning, humanity invented writing to transmit data. For example, a kingdom wanted to know how much grain was in that crop that year and then they wrote it through symbols. We now know that it is one thing to write to transmit data, as we do with the shopping list, for example, and another is to write to move or make people think. Creativity is joining two known things to achieve an original. For example, mayonnaise once existed on the side and ketchup on the other, u...”

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Course summary for: Creative Writing Techniques: Move Your Readers

• Level: Beginner
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• 1553 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 23m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creative Writing, Narrative, Writing