Creative Writing: The Power of Words in the Modern World
Finding Your Tools and Environment
A course by Max Stossel , Poet, Writer, and Filmmaker
About the video: Finding Your Tools and Environment
Overview
“Let's start by setting the stage for your writing and for creativity to flourish. I'll explain what you will accomplish through this course and what the project we'll work on will be. Then, I'll share some of my work and tell you how I set my own stage for writing.”
In this video lesson Max Stossel addresses the topic: Finding Your Tools and Environment , which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Writing: The Power of Words in the Modern World. Discover writing techniques to inspire creativity and tell stories that resonate with your audience.
Partial transcription of the video
“Finding Your Tools and Environment If you've come this far, writing already wants to flow through you, art wants to flow through you. In this course, we'll learn how to let it happen. We'll learn how to write specifically and let that process happen about specific subjects, and how to ensure that your audience cares about what you say. In this course, there will be times when you'll say, "What? He says write? I thought I'd learn writing. What's he talking about?" If you already know how to make a pen shape letters or type keys onto a computer, then you know how to write. You don't need help...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing: The Power of Words in the Modern World
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Communication, Content Writing, Copywriting, Creative Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Max Stossel
A course by Max Stossel
Max Stossel is an award-winning poet, filmmaker, and speaker from New York City. He was named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year in 2016. Spanning across five continents, from Lincoln Center in NY to the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Max’s performances have been described as mind-expanding, profound, and hilarious all at once. His stage show, “Words That Move” has sold out theaters all over the US, and is currently being developed into a digital special to share with the world. Max's work has been translated into fourteen languages, won two Webby Awards, multiple film festivals, and has been viewed over 20 million times online.
Max is also the youth & education advisor for the Center for Humane Technology, an organization of former tech insiders dedicated to realigning technology with humanity, which was featured in The Social Dilemma on Netflix. Before working with CHT, Max was a media strategist with an extensive background in social, running social media for multinational brands, and later working for a social media company where he designed some of the notification structures that he now raises awareness about.
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