Introduction to Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
How to Find a Story?
A course by Andrea Chapela , Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer
Joined November 2020
Joined November 2020
About the video: How to Find a Story?
Overview
“Let’s say you don’t know what story you want to tell in the world you’ve created. How do we find one? Here I’ll introduce you to a tool that is very good to think through stories and organize ideas in your mind: the idea cloud. ”
In this video lesson Andrea Chapela addresses the topic: How to Find a Story?, 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 Find a Story? In the second unit, we saw how ideas are everywhere. These ideas can jumpstart a world, a character, a plot, conflict or setting, but to write a story we need every element to be working in sync. During this unit, we will figure out how to go from the ideas and the world you've created into a story. In this unit, I'm going to stop to make notes in my notebook and actually sit down and start to write. Writing, like the other steps in this process, happens in many different ways at the same time, but I'm going to walk you through how typically I think about it. We'll see ...”
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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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