This course aims to help learners improve their writing skills by providing insights and advice from various renowned writers. The course covers topics such as identifying oneself as a writer, learning to write well, overcoming writer's block, the creative process, and the challenges of writing fiction. The course teaches skills such as using a thesaurus effectively, rewriting, choosing critics wisely, and listening to one's instincts while writing. The teaching method includes video lectures and interviews with experts in the field. This course is intended for aspiring writers looking to enhance their writing abilities and gain valuable advice from experienced authors.
Overview
Syllabus
How to Tell if You're a Writer | John Irving | Big Think.
Learning How to Write Well | Yann Martel | Big Think | Big Think.
John Irving: Advice to Aspiring Novelists: Don't Shoot Yourself.
Margaret Atwood's Creative Process | Big Think.
Salman Rushdie on Novel Writing.
Why Writing Fiction Is So Difficult.
Bad Writers Have Nothing to Say | Robert Mckee | Big Think.
How to Become a Writer.
Before you write an open letter, make sure it meets this criteria | Debra Mashek | Big Think.
Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego.
A Writing Teacher's Favorite Writing Exercises.
How do you write?.
Tom Perrotta's Advice to Writers.
What Do You Have To Sacrifice To Be a Writer?.
Advice to Writers.
Staring Down the Challenges of Writing.
What advice do you have for young writers?.
Writers Make Sense Out of Chaos.
A Successful TV Writer On Why Not To Write For TV.
Why etiquette governs the art of writing: Lolita, Ulysses, and the arrogance of genius | Martin Amis.
How to use a thesaurus to actually improve your writing | Martin Amis | Big Think.
Walter Mosley: A Lesson on Great Literature.
How to Overcome Writer’s Block: A Lesson from Augusten Burroughs | Big Think.
James Patterson on writing: Plotting, research, and first drafts | Big Think.
How to Write: Listen to Your Animal Impulses. A Lesson from Joshua Cohen | Big Think.
Orhan Pamuk: The Secret to Writing is Rewriting | Big Think.
Tom Perrotta on Becoming a Writer.
Isabel Allende's Writing Process.
Steven Pinker on Writing About Science.
Power Moves, in Writing and Life.
Writing 101: Choose Your Critics Wisely | Jacqueline Woodson | Big Think.
The Key to Universal Science Writing Is Subjectivity and Personalization | Big Think.
2 Different Ways to Write a Book: Beach Reads, War & Peace, F. Scott Fitzgerald | Salman Rushdie.
Michael Pollan on writing: What illuminates a story?.
Taught by
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