Introduction to Writing Horror Stories
Tell me your worst nightmares
A course by María Fernanda Ampuero , Author
About the video: Tell me your worst nightmares
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you how there are great stories that are born out of real terrors (insecurity, family violence, loss of loved ones, bankruptcies, exiles, etc.).”
In this video lesson María Fernanda Ampuero addresses the topic: Tell me your worst nightmares, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Writing Horror Stories. Learn to transform your deepest fears into compelling, terrifying and unforgettable stories that impact readers.
Partial transcription of the video
“Tell Me Your Worst Nightmares In this unit, we are going to choose the idea or the topic on which both you and me are going to base our final project. In this lesson, I will tell you how great horror stories arise from real fears, fears that you and I have. I'm sure there's something that scares you very much: the idea of losing a child, a degenerative and painful disease, moving to another country, not making ends meet, a global virus, for example, or maybe something as seemingly harmless as a mirror, a dating app, an old book... To start, I need you to identify that subject you're obses...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Writing Horror Stories
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Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
María Fernanda Ampuero
A course by María Fernanda Ampuero
Although born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, journalist and writer María Fernanda Ampuero has lived in Quito, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Madrid. Her texts have been included in countless anthologies and her latest book of short stories, Cockfight (Páginas de Espuma, 2018), was named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times in Spanish, in addition to receiving the Joaquín Gallegos Lara award for the best book of short stories of the year.
She has also published two books of journalistic chronicles: Lo que aprendí en la peluquería (Dinediciones, 2011) and Permiso de Residencia (Caracola, 2013). She has collaborated with important literary chronicle magazines such as Gatopardo, Piaüi, and Internazionale. Her work has been translated into English, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, and Chinese.
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