Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life
Gathering Your Knowledge and Research
A course by Julia Bell , Writer and Teacher
About the video: Gathering Your Knowledge and Research
Overview
“Now that you know the theory behind writing a good story, the next step is to start gathering together your material. I will help you to think about what you know and what you need to know and delve into how I did my research for my piece, The Night Owl.”
In this video lesson Julia Bell addresses the topic: Gathering Your Knowledge and Research, 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
“Gathering Your Knowledge and Research In this lesson, we'll consider how to gather together your research and think about what you already know and what you need to know, and I'll share with you how I researched my piece, "The Night Owl." In every piece of nonfiction, there's a mixture of the information that I already know and the things that I need to look up and find out about in order to find evidence for my arguments. Being able to access the information that I need is a lot about knowing the kinds of questions that I need to ask, but it's also about interrogating memory, much as we di...”
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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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