Writing a Non-fiction Book: Capture Real-life Experiences
Seeding
A course by Duncan Barrett , Writer and Editor
About the video: Seeding
Overview
“In this lesson, you'll see the importance of seeding certain themes throughout your narrative and how to use setup and payoff to engage and fascinate your readers. ”
In this video lesson Duncan Barrett addresses the topic: Seeding, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing a Non-fiction Book: Capture Real-life Experiences. Turn a true story into an engaging page-turner by exploring interview methods, writing techniques, and character development for non-fiction writing.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Seeding In this lesson, we'll look at seeding. This means basically planting certain core elements of your story throughout the narrative so that they hold it together. It can help to think about what some of the core themes are of your story. For Marta, I'd say there's that central dilemma about work versus family, the relationship with her sister, which is a little bit rocky at times, and her growing dissatisfaction with American culture and her feeling that perhaps she's in the wrong place and needs to go back to Spain. Now, if we take a look at her graph, we can identify places in the...”
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Course summary for: Writing a Non-fiction Book: Capture Real-life Experiences
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Communication, Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling, Writing
Duncan Barrett
A course by Duncan Barrett
Writer and Editor Duncan Barrett grew up as an avid reader and a lover of history. After studying English literature at university he went to drama school and decided to pursue a career as an actor, while working in publishing on the side. In 2009 Duncan found a WW1 memoir in the Imperial War Museum archive that he turned into a published book, The Reluctant Tommy.
The insight he gained in writing an impactful book-length story sparked a chain of events that led him to become an author of narrative non-fiction specializing in biography and memoir. His work includes the series’ The Sugar Girls and GI Brides which he wrote with his partner and which appeared in the The Sunday Times and The New York Times bestsellers’ lists. Duncan is also known for his solo titles such as Men of Letters, which was nominated for the People's Book Prize, Hitler's British Isles, and Ronnie Le Drew's showbiz memoir Unzipped. He also writes features for The Guardian.
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