Introduction to Writing Fiction
Raw material and tools
A course by Sylvia A. Zéleny , Author
About the video: Raw material and tools
Overview
“I will explain what the raw material for a story is, some techniques to obtain it as well as develop work tools that will allow you to do the pre-writing.”
In this video lesson Sylvia A. Zéleny addresses the topic: Raw material and tools, 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
“Raw material and tools Since we learned about the elements of the narrative, characters, time-space, narrator, plot, we are going to go to a stage that I like very much, prewriting. In it there are two very important elements: raw material and tools. Raw material and tools They are not only information and ways of approaching writing, they can also become triggers for decision making in terms of the plot, the characters and the space. With raw material we talk about data, with tools is about the elements we use to shape the raw material. By tools I mean the equipment you use both to find in...”
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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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