Original Narrative Writing from Start to Finish
How to turn a short story into a longer story?
A course by Afonso Cruz , Writer
About the video: How to turn a short story into a longer story?
Overview
“In this class, I'll teach you a simple and efficient method for extending the text we've already written and turning a short story into a novel and a novel into a novel. I will also speak of the danger of being too obvious, losing subtlety and elegance.”
In this video lesson Afonso Cruz addresses the topic: How to turn a short story into a longer story?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Original Narrative Writing from Start to Finish. Discover the importance of narrative structures and learn to write your own stories from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to turn a short story into a longer story? In this class, we're going to talk about methods to extend a narrative and transform it into something more extensive. As we talked about in one of the first classes, a short story, a novel, or a novel, often have a similar structure, which can be divided into the three acts we've talked about many times. What happens is that from a short story, if we expand it and it has the potential to do so, we can easily turn it into a soap opera, and after we have a novel, if we want to expand it, we could easily turn it into a novel. Usually, this is don...”
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Course summary for: Original Narrative Writing from Start to Finish
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Areas
Creative Writing, Creativity, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Afonso Cruz
A course by Afonso Cruz
Writer Afonso Cruz has had more than 30 books published, from novels, poetry, and theater to essays and nonfiction. He says that understanding his characters' motivations, conflicts, and desires helps him to understand both himself and the world around him.
His works have been translated into more than 20 languages and his book La Muñeca de Kokoschka won the European Union Prize for Literature. He is also the winner of awards such as the Maria Rosa Colaç Literary Prize, the Portuguese-language literary award Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco, and the Brazilian children's literature award Prémio da Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil do Brasil.
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