Introduction to Creative Writing from Personal Experience

Overview

“From my point of view, literature, art in general, is a great conversation: writing is also putting our work in dialogue with that of those we admire. In this lesson I will tell you about my main influences. ”

In this video lesson Aloma Rodríguez addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Creative Writing from Personal Experience. Learn to compose stories from everyday events and write a brief story using personal experience and observation.

Partial transcription of the video

“influences In this lesson I will talk about some influences, of my favorite writers and also of some filmmaker. First of all, I am going to tell you about Lucia Berlin, a writer who was born in 1936 and died in 2004. He basically wrote short stories all his life. I like her a lot because her stories always have an autobiographical touch. and as it was what he did throughout his life, write stories, somehow their stories they are a kind of running novel about his life. Not necessarily that everything is true, but you can see that some things, when you read his biography or things that happen...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Creative Writing from Personal Experience

• Level: Beginner
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• 1263 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 54m)
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• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing