Creative Writing Techniques: Move Your Readers

writing as a process

A course by Gustavo Rodríguez , Writer

100% positive reviews (64)

1,553 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: writing as a process

Overview

“I want to share with you some essential advice and some tools to keep in mind before you start writing.”

In this video lesson Gustavo Rodríguez addresses the topic: writing as a process, 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

“writing as a process In this lesson I will give you a fundamental advice and we are going to see some tools before starting to write your story. My overriding advice is don't worry about making a mistake. In the 80s, an American writer named Raymond Carver became very famous. His surgical style in stories was well known. One day some manuscripts of Carver transcended which had been intervened by his publisher, Gordon Lish. You can see that crossed-out manuscript here. If that happened to a great like Raymond Carver, why should you worry about the same thing happening to you? So don't worry ...”

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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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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.