Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life
Refining the Ending
A course by Julia Bell , Writer and Teacher
About the video: Refining the Ending
Overview
“How can you finish your piece to bring the story to a strong close? In this lesson, we will consider how an ending implies meaning for all the things which have gone before it. ”
In this video lesson Julia Bell addresses the topic: Refining the Ending, 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
“Refining the Ending In this lesson, we'll consider how to end a piece and how an ending implies meaning on everything that's gone before it. We'll consider the things we've learned on this course and how we can synthesise some of this in your own writing to bring a piece to a conclusion. As I said at the beginning of this unit, I thought I was going to begin my piece, "The Night Owl," with my broken leg, but it wasn't until I decided that I was going to put that at the end that the whole piece fell into place and I felt like I could write it. This is a kind of irony of writing, which is tha...”
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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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