Introduction to Autobiographical Writing
Influences
A course by César Tejeda , Storyteller, Editor, and Scriptwriter
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now I want to share with you some of my teachers and teachers in the art of teaching writing.”
In this video lesson César Tejeda addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Autobiographical Writing. Learn to reconstruct your memories using narrative tools and create autobiographical stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Welcome and welcome to the influence lesson. All of us who write spend hours prostrate in an armchair reading the authors that we like, the authors that inspire us and to the authors who finally influence us. All authors have a family tree of people who inspired us. Throughout the course, and in Additional Resources, I will share texts from some of the authors that have inspired me. However, in this lesson I want to talk about other influences that have been definitive and are my great influences in the art of teaching storytelling. For example, Robert McKee, do you know him? He ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Autobiographical Writing
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Creativity, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling, Writing
César Tejeda
A course by César Tejeda
César Tejeda is a storyteller, editor, and scriptwriter from Mexico City. Over the course of his career, he has written two novels–Épica de bolsillo para un joven de clase media (Planeta, 2012) and Mi abuelo y el dictador (Caballo de Troya, 2017)–as well as a collection of essays titled La compulsión autobiográfica (Alacraña, 2021, undergoing editing).
As a scriptwriter, he has collaborated with Canal 11 and Canal 22, from Mexican cultural television, and written for documentaries and feature-length fiction films. As an editor, he has worked with Penguin Random House, the UNAM Literature Department, and the magazines Este País and Los Suicidas, where he also served as director. He is currently the editor at Ediciones Antílope as well as one of its founding members. On top of it all, César shares his knowledge as a teacher at different schools and academies.
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