Writing Exercises: From the Blank Page to Everyday Practice
Exercises to document everyday life
A course by Aniko Villalba , Author of Interactive Journals
About the video: Exercises to document everyday life
Overview
“Next, I'm going to teach you how to do documentation exercises. You are going to record in your notebook everything that catches your attention from your day to day, and then use those ideas or details in future texts.”
In this video lesson Aniko Villalba addresses the topic: Exercises to document everyday life, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing Exercises: From the Blank Page to Everyday Practice. Engage in creative writing exercises that document and generate ideas, and transform it into a regular practice.
Partial transcription of the video
“Exercises to document everyday life In this lesson we are going to do three exercises so you can document your daily life, that is, so that you keep in your notebook details of your day to day, that catch your attention. Our daily lives are full of details and interesting moments, but it's a matter of paying attention to them, to look more closely at what we experience every day. Lynda Barry says we need to pay attention which draws our attention, since there are clues about texts that we are probably going to be interested in writing. Exercise 1 Seven things that caught my attention The fi...”
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Course summary for: Writing Exercises: From the Blank Page to Everyday Practice
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Creative Writing, Creativity, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Aniko Villalba
A course by Aniko Villalba
Aniko Villalba is a writer and the author of books such as Días de viaje (2013) and El síndrome de París (2016), as well as interactive diaries like Mapa subjetivo de viaje (2017) and Diario de viajes mágicos (FERA, 2020). She spent ten years traveling through more than 50 countries, photographing what she saw and writing about her experiences in magazines, newspapers, websites, and her blog viajandoporahi.com. She also spoke at events and conferences, published her first two travel narrative books, and started interactive travel diaries with prompts, triggers, and questions for readers to complete.
After her nomadic life, she settled in Amsterdam to dedicate herself completely to her project escribir.me, a website dedicated to promoting writing and creativity, where she has been teaching writing, journaling, and creativity workshops since 2015. She also has a podcast titled Mientras no escribo where she gives listeners an insider's look at the creative writing process.
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