Introduction to Writing Fiction
Read, review and rewrite
A course by Sylvia A. Zéleny , Author
About the video: Read, review and rewrite
Overview
“Now I want to tell you about the review, editing and rewriting process. After this step, you will have a first draft of your story. ”
In this video lesson Sylvia A. Zéleny addresses the topic: Read, review and rewrite, 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
“Read, review and rewrite We are closing the writing process carrying out four important activities, self-reading, reviewing, editing and rewriting. In this lesson I will tell you about each of these phases and how I carry them out. Self-reading is reading your text. I prefer to do it out loud, because there I realize of the punctuation, details of tones, forms, sentence construction and so on. It also helps you to soak up what is happening in your text and what you want to happen in the future. I'll start reading my text aloud to see how it feels, what is working and what will need review l...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Writing Fiction
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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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