Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
How to Approach Writing: A Little Personal Manifesto
A course by Lola Larra , Writer, Journalist, and Editor
About the video: How to Approach Writing: A Little Personal Manifesto
Overview
“Now I will tell you how we will work throughout the course, in addition, I will present you the project that I propose you to carry out. I'll tell you how I think you can approach writing (or, rather, a little personal manifesto).”
In this video lesson Lola Larra addresses the topic: How to Approach Writing: A Little Personal Manifesto, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events. Explore fiction within reality and create your own stories from the news, photos, and real events.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to Approach Writing: A Little Personal Manifesto In this lesson I will tell you how to approach writing, ways to approach writing, but first I will tell you what we will do during the course. for this course I thought it would be interesting to tell you about the experience of what I have done in my last two books, which is to take a real news to fiction. For that I will choose a news about student movements, with student riots. That news that I will choose will be represented by an image, I'll pick a news photograph. With it, first we will do a whole research process about what happens...”
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Course summary for: Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
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Category
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Areas
Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Lola Larra
A course by Lola Larra
Lola Larra was born in Santiago, Chile and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. After studying arts at the Andrés Bello Catholic University and then following a rock band across Latin America, she moved to Madrid where she worked for many years as a journalist. She was a writer and correspondent for a series of newspapers and magazines including Rolling Stone, Cinemanía, Colors, Vogue, Página 12, and El País.
14 years later, she returned to Chile, where she published Al sur de la Alameda, an illustrated novel inspired by Chile's 2006 student revolution. It has since been translated into various languages and won several awards. After extensive research, she later published Sprinters, a journalistic novel based on the Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) case. She also currently works at her own publishing house, Ekaré Sur which publishes illustrated stories for children and young adults.
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