Introduction to Writing Fiction
Socialize the story
A course by Sylvia A. Zéleny , Author
About the video: Socialize the story
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll teach you the importance of socializing your story to ask for and receive feedback. ”
In this video lesson Sylvia A. Zéleny addresses the topic: Socialize the story, 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
“Socialize the story I imagine that at this point you are like me, you already have a first version of your story. You have already read, reviewed, corrected, maybe you have added more ideas and removed others. In this lesson I want to explain to you what is next and how to know that you have already reached the end, or that the end is the end. I think we are very hard on ourselves and suddenly we say: "It doesn't work. This is wrong, I have to start over ", or else, we take the other extreme and we say: "That's it, it's perfect, I like it a lot." That is, we are very critical or self-indulg...”
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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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