Introduction to Writing Fiction
Course final project
A course by Sylvia A. Zéleny , Author
About the final project for: Introduction to Writing Fiction
Introduction to Writing Fiction
“You have reached the end of the course. Thank you very much for joining me, I hope that the narrative bases that you learned are the beginning of many literary projects. Understanding elements such as narrator, characters, plot, and time / space will be critical to both your final project and the stories to come. Before saying goodbye, I would like to recapitulate a little the steps that will take you to build your story. You will remember that I shared some of my strategies to develop a plot and how to prepare your raw material before writing. I am interested in you carrying out your own research process because it is a way of discovering the text you are writing. Gathering information and studying your raw material are essential steps BEFORE you sit down to write. Once you are writing, do not stop, listen carefully to your characters and you will see that you can turn your story into the first piece of a larger project. Perhaps you decided to turn something that happened to you into fiction, and that's fine, little by little you will learn to think based on the character or topic in which you are interested and perform prewriting, writing and rewriting based on it.
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“Final project Dear students, we have reached the end of this course which focused on the construction of a story. We start from the bases of the narrative and we learned about elements like narrator, characters, plot, time-space, and how they interact depending on the purpose of our writing project. As you saw, play with the paper dolls, with the collage and the photographs, are just a few of the many ways that you can use to spark your creativity and get into the prewriting process. We observe strategies to develop a plot and, most importantly, prepare and generate raw material before writ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Writing Fiction
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Sylvia A. Zéleny
A course by Sylvia A. Zéleny
Sylvia A. Zéleny holds a BA in Hispanic literature from the University of Sonora and two master's degrees, one in humanities from the ITESM and another in creative writing from the University of Texas. She writes both fiction and nonfiction works and has authored stories like Gente Menuda (Voces del Desierto, 1999) and Otras Manías (Narrativas Divergentes Award, 2014), and novels such as Una no habla de esto (Tierra Adentro, 2008) and El Libro de Aisha (Random House, 2021).
She is the current director and a professor of the online creative writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the coordinator of Casa Octavia, a residence for writers where she also teaches individual and collective workshops. Similarly, she has taught workshops on fiction and nonfiction discourse across the United States, Mexico, and Colombia, and has coordinated writing workshops for victims of violence along the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.
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