Introduction to Writing Fiction
Characters
A course by Sylvia A. Zéleny , Author
About the video: Characters
Overview
“I will tell you about the types of character and some strategies to learn more and carry out their characterization. ”
In this video lesson Sylvia A. Zéleny addresses the topic: Characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Writing Fiction. Learn to write unique stories based on the fundamentals of narrative studies.
Partial transcription of the video
“Characters There are those who say that one of the elements most important in any story are the characters. If we think about it, in a way they are. In a movie, in a play, in a graphic novel, in a manga, in an autobiography, in any fiction book, the characters are the ones who pull us, involve us, they take us inside the plot. As authors, we want to build credible characters, complex, endearing. Yes And I'm sick of pretending I don't have it It seems to me to think in the role of the characters in the plot it's like watching the people around you, learning from you, and it requires you to l...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Writing Fiction
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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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