Introduction to Autobiographical Writing
What will we do in the course?
A course by César Tejeda , Storyteller, Editor, and Scriptwriter
About the video: What will we do in the course?
Overview
“To close this unit, I will tell you the general ideas of the course and what your final project will consist of. ”
In this video lesson César Tejeda addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, 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
“What will we do in the course? In this Lesson 3 of Unit 1 we will talk about what we will do in the course. My goal is that at the end of this course you write a short autobiographical account of approximately five pages where you use some of the tools that I will share in the future. There are theoretical and practical tools. The objective is that you choose some of them and use them to limit what you have proposed to tell. Some students of narrative say something that can be controversial, that stories are better than life. I think they are right because they don't say that the stories ar...”
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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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