Creation of Fictional Stories with Real Characters
First Ideas
A course by Penélope Córdova , Author
About the video: First Ideas
Overview
“It is time to choose the character that will be the center of your story. I will show you how to put the character at the center of the story, and we will review two types of characters: those who do things and those who have things happen to them. Then, you will write down the most important elements of this character to begin to build it and give it particularities.”
In this video lesson Penélope Córdova addresses the topic: First Ideas, 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
“First ideas In this lesson, you will choose the center character of your story. I'll show you how to put the character at the center of the story and how to start building the most important elements of your personality. I will also tell you about two elements that can help you build the character, the characters that do things and the characters that things happen to. Let's continue with the note from the postman who stole the mail. If I wanted it to be a plot tale, maybe i would just take the fact that the correspondence stops reaching its recipients and then, without focusing on the post...”
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Course summary for: Creation of Fictional Stories with Real Characters
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Category
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Areas
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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