Introduction to Autobiographical Writing
Dramatic tools
A course by César Tejeda , Storyteller, Editor, and Scriptwriter
About the video: Dramatic tools
Overview
“In my life as an editor, I have come across autobiographical projects a few times that do not use dramatic tools. These help us to create expectations and dramatic tension, two elements that are essential to capture the attention of viewers.”
In this video lesson César Tejeda addresses the topic: Dramatic tools, 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
“Dramatic tools In my life as an editor I have found literary projects that by being very focused on telling life as it is they forget something fundamental which are the dramatic elements, the dramatic tools we use to persuade reading, to tense our stories, to make them more substantial in emotional terms and in plot terms. The dramatic tools are two, the conflict and something I call the sense of imminence, although many authors know it as "suspense". The conflict is what helps us to tense the stories. Imagine that your story is a rope that most of the time it stays more or less loose. The...”
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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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