Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life
Making a Scene
A course by Julia Bell , Writer and Teacher
About the video: Making a Scene
Overview
“We will now explore the art of making something active and alive in prose, borrowing techniques from fiction. How can you bring your story into the moment so that the narrative can move forward in the reader's mind?”
In this video lesson Julia Bell addresses the topic: Making a Scene, 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
“Making a Scene In this lesson, we'll consider the art of making something active and alive in prose. Making a scene is probably one of the most fictional parts of creating creative nonfiction, because we're borrowing all of the knowledge from how we make a piece of fiction, how we tell a story. We're borrowing the essence of storytelling in a way. As I already said in the previous lesson, I used the present tense in my piece as a way of bringing it into the moment, of making a scene, making something happen in the now, so that the story can move forward in the mind of the reader and they ca...”
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Course summary for: Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life
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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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