Creation of Fictional Stories with Real Characters
Influences
A course by Penélope Córdova , Author
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell you about my literary influences, what I like to read about, and why. These authors enrich me as a writer because they reveal other ways of narrating, they know how to create a universe and they make me feel as if I know the people about whom they write.”
In this video lesson Penélope Córdova addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation of Fictional Stories with Real Characters. Turn a real character into the protagonist of an exciting fictional story by exploring their conflicts, motivations, and goals.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences As I am interested in literary characters, I always look for readings with strong character development or to help me build my own characters when I write. There was a moment in my life when I wanted to be an actress and, since I couldn't be, I started writing dramaturgy. The interesting thing about dramaturgy is that you have a very limited time to develop a character with only dialogues and a few notes. The construction of characters in dramaturgy is different than narrative characters, not so different, but it is a little different. So for me it is essential that a character i...”
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Course summary for: Creation of Fictional Stories with Real Characters
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Creativity, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Penélope Córdova
A course by Penélope Córdova
Penélope Córdova is a Mexican narrator and essayist who creates all her texts, whether fiction or essays, by building on one or various characters rather than a fact or an anecdote. In her experience, the characters themselves make a story relatable or not.
In 2015, she won the Amparo Dávila Fine Arts Story Prize for her book Panteón Familiar (Family Pantheon). She is also the author of the book of essays Locus, variaciones sobre ciudades, cartografía y la torre de Babel and her work has been published in story as well as essay anthologies such as Arbitraria, muestrario de poesía y ensayo, Nuevas instrucciones para vivir en México, and Formas de escribir y ser/no ser madre. Additionally, she is cofounder of the creative companionship agency Somos Texto.
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