Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life
What Makes a Good Story?
A course by Julia Bell , Writer and Teacher
About the video: What Makes a Good Story?
Overview
“This lesson picks up from the previous lesson and considers how I wrote my piece The Night Owl, which you can download from the Additional Resources section if you'd like to have a read! Learning from example is a great way to familiarise yourself with the art of storytelling. ”
In this video lesson Julia Bell addresses the topic: What Makes a Good Story?, 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
“What Makes a Good Story? Now, picking up on the things we thought about in the last lesson, what makes a good story? We'll look at the piece that I wrote based on the exercise called "The Night Owl," which you can download in the resources section. In the last lesson, I looked through the contents of the pocket on my bag and I found in it this "mati," which is an amulet against the evil eye, often carried around by people in Greece. I thought this would make a good story. There's something about this, about superstitions and the bad thing that happened to me when I was in Greece and broke m...”
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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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