Introduction to Writing Fiction
Define and conceptualize
A course by Sylvia A. Zéleny , Author
About the video: Define and conceptualize
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to help you make decisions to define and begin to conceptualize. I will also share my practices to carry out the writing of a project. ”
In this video lesson Sylvia A. Zéleny addresses the topic: Define and conceptualize, 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
“Define and conceptualize Starting from my project as an example, now I want to talk to you about how to make decisions for the writing process. As I already told you, my story is about a couple, she feeds the cats and he doesn't like that. Before I started writing, I wanted to start planning my text. Using the Freytag triangle, which we already talked about, I divided my page into three points, If you remember, they were a statement, climax and denouement. Here I wrote down some of the elements that I want to take into account when writing. The first is that I want my text to start with the...”
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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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