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Creative Non-Fiction Writing Specialization

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 Domestika addresses the topic: What Makes a Good Story?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Non-Fiction Writing Specialization. Transform ideas into captivating stories using creative writing techniques and overcome writer's block through practice.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, picking up on the things that we thought about in the last lesson, what makes a good story? And we're going to look at the piece that I wrote based on the exercise called The Night Owl, which you can download in the resources section. So in the last lesson, I looked through the contents of the pocket on my bag and I found in it this matty, which is an amulet against the evil eye, which is often carried around by people in Greece. I thought this is going to make a good story. There's something about this, about superstitions and about the bad thing that happened to me when I ...”

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Creative Non-Fiction Writing Specialization

A specialization by multiple teachers
Berkeley, United States.
Joined April 2002
  • 100% positive reviews (15)
  • 1,626 students