From Personal Diary to Non-Fiction Short Story
Play With the Score
A course by Daniel Saldaña París , Writer and Editor
About the video: Play With the Score
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk about the many possibilities of prose, so that you learn to find your own breath in what you write. ”
In this video lesson Daniel Saldaña París addresses the topic: Play With the Score, which is part of the Domestika online course: From Personal Diary to Non-Fiction Short Story. Learn to write a text based on your own experiences and turn it into a story that articulates ideas, experiences, reflection, and observation.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson. we will explore an additional critical decision you need to make as you begin crafting your text for your final project. Previously. we delved into the overall structure and planning stages of your However. we must also consider another crucial aspect. which pertains to language—not so much the overall structure. but the finer details of how sentences are constructed. This involves focusing on the That is. with the prose. The decision of what language to use will greatly affect your text on many different levels. For example. using a choppy rhythm with many periods is not th...”
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Course summary for: From Personal Diary to Non-Fiction Short Story
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Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling, Writing

Daniel Saldaña París
A course by Daniel Saldaña París
Narrator, essay writer, poet, and translator Daniel Saldaña París has published poem collections such as Esa pura materia and La máquina autobiográfica, as well as novels like En medio de extrañas víctimas and El nervio principal.
He has also collaborated with media outlets such as The Guardian, El País, Gatopardo, El Malpensante, Letras Libres, and more. His style earned him the 2020 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award and he was included in the Bogotá39 list of best writers in Latin America under the age of 40.
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