Creative Nonfiction: Write from Life
Planning and Developing a Longer Project
A course by Julia Bell , Writer and Teacher
About the video: Planning and Developing a Longer Project
Overview
“How can you apply the skills you've learned to much bigger endeavours? In this lesson, we'll consider how to develop something from a short piece into a longer project.”
In this video lesson Julia Bell addresses the topic: Planning and Developing a Longer Project, 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
“Planning and Developing a Longer Project In this lesson, we'll consider how to develop something from a short piece into a longer project. You wrote a piece and it suggested all kinds of new ideas to you. Take "The Night Owl." One of the things that I thought I could take forward from that idea would be a book about superstitions, maybe a collection of essays or of short pieces by myself about different kinds of superstition from around the world. There was a lot in that idea I think that could be opened up into something bigger, but really, if you want to do that, go back to the things we ...”
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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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