Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life
Paying Attention
A course by Julia Bell , Writer and Teacher
About the video: Paying Attention
Overview
“In this lesson, we'll consider the importance of paying attention to the world and do some exercises which will help you to develop observational and descriptive skills.”
In this video lesson Julia Bell addresses the topic: Paying Attention, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life. Learn creative writing and storytelling techniques to craft engaging nonfiction pieces for publication or personal enjoyment.
Partial transcription of the video
“Paying Attention In this lesson, we're going to consider the importance of paying attention to the world, and do some exercises to help you develop your descriptive and observational skills. All the writing that we love and admire shows us something new about the world. As Ezra Pound says in his "Letters to T. S. Eliot," "Make it new." I want my students to be able to do this every time they sit down to write. One of the things that we want to do in this lesson and with these exercises is to give you a fresh way of looking at the world. To be able to develop this capacity, we need to pay at...”
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Course summary for: Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life
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Areas
Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling
Julia Bell
A course by Julia Bell
Julia Bell is a writer and a professor at Birkbeck, University of London.
She loved writing growing up, and by the age of 12, she knew she wanted to do it for a living, thanks to a school-sponsored poetry workshop. She went on to hone her craft with a master’s degree before launching her career in the world of the written word. For her, this creative activity is not only a profession but a lifestyle, and her surroundings are an endless source of inspiration.
Since she got her start, Julia has published three young adult novels—Massive, Dirty Work, and The Dark Light—which have been translated into multiple languages. She has also written several nonfiction books including Radical Attention and the bestseller Creative Writing Coursebook. Her poetry, essays, and short stories have been broadcast on the BBC and featured in publications like The Paris Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, Comma Press, and Mal Journal.
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