Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
Genres and Formats
A course by Lola Larra , Writer, Journalist, and Editor
About the video: Genres and Formats
Overview
“I would like to talk to you about genres that are close to the project and what are the formats that you can use to work. In particular, I will talk to you about non-fiction, and how it dialogues with the journalistic chronicle and with autofiction. ”
In this video lesson Lola Larra addresses the topic: Genres and Formats, 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
“Genres and formats In this lesson I will tell you some things about genres and the formats that your project can have. I would like to talk to you about fiction and non-fiction genres, the difference between fiction and nonfiction, because our story moves on that border. It has reality, non-fiction, and it is fictional, to the extent that you are going to fictionalize about the selected news. So, we will not give a lecture on genres, because the theory of genres is very complicated, but I will leave you some things in Resources that I find interesting to read about literary genres and we wi...”
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Course summary for: Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
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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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