Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
Choose a theme
A course by Lola Larra , Writer, Journalist, and Editor
About the video: Choose a theme
Overview
“Where do ideas come from? How do they get to us? What happens when we think we choose a theme? Are we really choosing a theme? It is something that many writers and literary theorists have asked themselves. But the important thing is that in this lesson I am going to teach you how to try to make it happen to you. ”
In this video lesson Lola Larra addresses the topic: Choose a theme, 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
“Choose a theme? In this lesson I will teach you how to choose themes, to dive among the ideas to find one that obsesses you enough like for you to work with her on a story, because ideas come and go, they are volatile, incorporeal and only some of them remain in your head and become an obsession, that you need to write a story or a novel. I'll give you an exercise. Before choosing the photo, the news and the photo for your final project, I suggest you take a couple of days and that you wander through your neighborhood, through the city or you go to the beach or to the mountains, that you wa...”
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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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