Introduction to Creative Writing from Personal Experience

Overview

“Writing is the grateful part of the work, the hard part comes now: the correction. To do this, we first let the text rest until we can read it as if it were not ours; we correct it and, before finishing it, we read it aloud. ”

In this video lesson Aloma Rodríguez addresses the topic: Editing and Reading Aloud, 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

“Edit and read aloud We already have our draft. We have made a first very slight correction and now we are going to seriously correct, edit, to read it again aloud, to enrich the text, all the gaps that we have been leaving. Now it's time to get into the text, concentrate and not quit until we are happy. It may be that at one point we say: "I'm done." We separate ourselves from the text to read it with fresh eyes, as if we had not written it, that's the hardest part actually, and to be relentless. "That afternoon, my little daughter and I were alone in the city, the older ones still had vaca...”

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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)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing