Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
Investigate
A course by Lola Larra , Writer, Journalist, and Editor
About the video: Investigate
Overview
“Since the idea is that your story does not betray the real event on which it is based, you must investigate, read, search, ask, inquire, visit, etc. I will show you how is my research process to write novels and stories.”
In this video lesson Lola Larra addresses the topic: Investigate, 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
“Investigate In this lesson we will investigate the necessary for our final project. We already chose our photograph. We need to understand the context, find out what happened in that photograph, because if not, we would invent anything that will betray facts and reality. In this course we are fictionalizing a real event, but without betraying him. We go to the internet, we search, we put the keywords. In my case they were: jump of the turnstile, social outbreak in Chile, October 2019. Lots of things appeared. many reports, many opinion articles. In the news we can find the pure data of our ...”
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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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