Creation of Fictional Stories with Real Characters
Conflict and Structure
A course by Penélope Córdova , Author
About the video: Conflict and Structure
Overview
“In this lesson, you will add another very important narrative element: conflict. The character must want something that is difficult to obtain or that is not at their fingertips. You will learn the three types of conflict and when you define yours, you will begin to think about the structure, that is, to detail the order of the events in the story.”
In this video lesson Penélope Córdova addresses the topic: Conflict and Structure, 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
“Conflict and structure In this lesson, we will add a very important narrative element: the conflict. Then we can start ordering the events of our history point by point. Once we have the motivation and goal of our character, it's time to think how it will look and how will this character act inside the bigger story, that is to say, of the story in which he will be the protagonist. Characters have goals If they could achieve those goals without difficulty, there would be no story. If a character wants to win the lottery and he earns it after weeks of buying his ticket, Well, there is no long...”
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Course summary for: Creation of Fictional Stories with Real Characters
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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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