Introduction to Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
How to Develop Your Notebook?
A course by Andrea Chapela , Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer
Joined November 2020
Joined November 2020
About the video: How to Develop Your Notebook?
Overview
“I will share with you one of my biggest tricks to find ideas: keeping a notebook. This is a very personal practice and every writer’s notebook is different. You will learn different ways in which you can keep a notebook of your own and how this practice can help your writing. ”
In this video lesson Andrea Chapela addresses the topic: How to Develop Your Notebook?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. Discover how to develop your ideas and build literary worlds with writing structures and techniques that can transport your readers.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to Develop Your Notebook? In a previous lesson, I talked about the importance of writing ideas down. As I said before, writing them down makes them not only accessible to us in the future, but it also makes us stop and consider them in a different way. It stops being a fleeting impression and it starts to develop in our mind, to stick in there so we won't forget it easily. In the last lesson, we also talked about the little details and ways in which we can try to remember them, memorize them, pay attention to them. The point is to notice them so that we can start to consider them not on...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Andrea Chapela
A course by Andrea Chapela
Andrea Chapela is a Mexican science fiction and fantasy writer, and author of the fantasy tetralogy Vâudïz (La heredera, El creador, La cuentista and El cuento). She studied Chemistry at UNAM, and has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Iowa. Andrea has also written the essay collection Grados de miopía, and the short story collections Un año de servicio a la habitación and Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio.
She is the recipient of numerous awards like the National Gilberto Owen Literature Prize for Stories in 2018, the National Juan José Arreola Literature Prize in 2019, and the National Joven José Luis Martínez Essay Prize in 2019. She has been a FONCA scholar twice (2016-2017 for stories and 2019-2020 for novels) and a scholar at the Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Currently, she teaches workshops, language classes, and contributes to magazines like Este País, Literal Magazine, Vaso Cósmico, and Tierra Adentro.
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