Creation of Fictional Stories with Real Characters
Ways to Start Telling
A course by Penélope Córdova , Author
About the video: Ways to Start Telling
Overview
“We will now see some ways to beat the blank sheet with a first paragraph. By now, you know what the story is going to be about and in what order things happen, so you won't have much trouble. You will write the introduction and you will be faced with the inevitable choice of the type of narrator. You will also learn to introduce a character briefly but effectively.”
In this video lesson Penélope Córdova addresses the topic: Ways to Start Telling, 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
“Ways to start counting In this lesson, I will show you how to start writing your story. At this moment you already have your character, you already know where it comes from and more or less where it is going. Now the blank sheet is due. The story, like any other discourse, has a structure that we can divide into beginning, development and end or end. The beginning is a fundamental part, because it's basically when you say to the reader what to know or what to look for so that what follows in the development and in the outcome make sense. We won't tell you things you shouldn't know as if Gus...”
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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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