Creation of Fictional Stories with Real Characters
Until One Day
A course by Penélope Córdova , Author
About the video: Until One Day
Overview
“In this lesson you will “furnish” your story and think about the triggering event. You will learn to build scenarios and customs that speak of the character. I will also teach you what tension is and some ways to generate it. Finally, I will tell you about various uses of dialogues, if any, so that you can distinguish between those that are meaningful or insubstantial.”
In this video lesson Penélope Córdova addresses the topic: Until One Day, 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
“Until one day In this lesson, we will already furnish our story. We will start everything that we have prepared in previous lessons and we will develop the trigger point so that the whole story with the characters moves. We will also talk about the dialogues and how to build tension. The point that interests us the most at this moment It is the famous "until one day". I have started to write and I have a start where I say who Gustavo is, what he does, what he does, what do you like, what don't you like, who you know and how your daily life and routine go by to prepare the stage for developm...”
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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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