Introduction to Creative Writing from Personal Experience

Overview

“Writing is above all a physical activity. In this lesson we will explore the material and physical side of writing.”

In this video lesson Aloma Rodríguez addresses the topic: Routine and Rituals, 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

“routine and rituals In this lesson we are going to see different postures to write and above all we are going to focus on the materials. The writer Ismael Grasa says that writing it is above all to maintain a physical posture and there are many writers for whom writing is a physical effort. Perhaps that is why the posture marks. For example, Nabokov wrote standing because that's how he said he maintained the tension of the sentence. Instead, Mark Twain wrote lying down. Valle-Inclán also wrote lying down. Many female writers wrote in the kitchen, they had his papers and his typewriter on th...”

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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