Introduction to Writing Horror Stories
The voice from beyond the grave
A course by María Fernanda Ampuero , Author
About the video: The voice from beyond the grave
Overview
“You already have your monster, great, but you don't know how to make him talk. Calm down, I'll give you basic notions about the narrative voice so you can decide how you want your monster or your victim to speak. This decision is the basis for everything to come. ”
In this video lesson María Fernanda Ampuero addresses the topic: The voice from beyond the grave, 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
“The Voice from Beyond the Grave The choice of a narrative voice is one of the most complex and determinant decisions when creating a story. Choosing the narrator correctly may be the difference between a banal story and a memorable one. An omniscient narrator, who is a kind of god, who knows what the characters feel and think, is different from a character-narrator, who is experiencing and telling you about what is happening. Also, a witness-narrator, who obviously tells you what they are seeing, is different from a second-person narrator, who addresses the reader for example, in a letter. ...”
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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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