Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
close the story
A course by Lola Larra , Writer, Journalist, and Editor
About the video: close the story
Overview
“With a lot of patience and hours of writing you can reach the end of the story. I'll show you how I was able to get to the end of my story and the steps I took to close it. And you will also see how to choose a title for the story. ”
In this video lesson Lola Larra addresses the topic: close the story, 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
“Close the story We already have almost all the elements for our story. We have a narrator, the characters, the settings, the actions. We are more or less at the halfway point of the story. Now we must close it. You have to know how to close projects and stories, if not, you could stay writing forever and it is not the idea. to end a story you have to work a lot, write many hours, dedicate time to it. Don't worry, no matter how slow you go, The important thing is that you get to the end. The good thing is that having all the elements on the table from the equator to the end is almost a dizzy...”
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Course summary for: Writing Fictional Stories Based on Real Events
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Category
Writing -
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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