Creation of Fictional Stories with Real Characters
Style and Experimentation
A course by Penélope Córdova , Author
About the video: Style and Experimentation
Overview
“You already have your story finished, and now? You have a text that you can experiment with, for example, write another story from the secondary character's point of view or try different endings. In addition, you can start writing different stories from words or random elements that give you a pretext to start your imagination, for example, words in a dictionary.”
In this video lesson Penélope Córdova addresses the topic: Style and Experimentation, 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
“Style and experimentation You've finished your story, and now what's next? In this lesson, I will show you how you can work your style and find your own narrative. You already have your story written. You have finished it and made the final period. Now what's next? Will you publish it? Will you give it to other readers to give you their impressions? What happens after finishing a story? In reality the end point is almost never the end point. End point is only when printed and the text no longer belongs to you, but now your story is still yours. What can you do? You can start playing with th...”
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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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