Creative Writing: Make Viral Digital Literature
Working with the unexpected idea
A course by Ben Clark , Poet, Translator, and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Working with the unexpected idea
Overview
“I will show you how to generate a new idea from the first statement and use it to find the conclusion of the poetic text. ”
In this video lesson Ben Clark addresses the topic: Working with the unexpected idea, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Writing: Make Viral Digital Literature. Learn how to write poems that go viral on social media using creative writing techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Working with the unexpected idea In this lesson we will learn how to generate a new idea From our first approach and we will find a way to find a conclusion to our poetic text thanks to this new idea. Go for it. We already have the first proposal for our poem. Let us remember that we have sought a proposal for the issue of identity. We will write down the topic so that we do not forget. We will also note the proposal which we arrived at through the previous exercise. The proposal was: "There will never be someone like me." Now we will have to start writing thinking about this proposal, but ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing: Make Viral Digital Literature
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Creative Writing, Creativity, Social Media, Writing
Ben Clark
A course by Ben Clark
Ben Clark is a poet and translator who's been professionally devoted to literature since one of his poems went viral in 2011. He's studied the relationship between poetic texts and social media and has launched digital initiatives such as #Coronaversos, prompting others to share poetry during the pandemic.
Ben has received multiple awards for his books, including the 2021 Hiperión de Poesía award for Los hijos de los hijos de la ira (2006), the RNE Critical Eye Awards for poetry for La Fiera (2014), and the 30th International Poetry Prize from the Loewe Foundation for La policía celeste (2017).
He is also a poetry mentor at the Fundación Antonio Gala para Jóvenes Creadores and a poetry professor in the Spanish creative writing master's program at the University of Salamanca.
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