Introduction to Writing Horror Stories
The call comes from your own home
A course by María Fernanda Ampuero , Author
About the video: The call comes from your own home
Overview
“The success of a horror story is, first, that the reader believes it and, second, that they put themselves in the shoes of the protagonist. You have to use your friend's verisimilitude . ”
In this video lesson María Fernanda Ampuero addresses the topic: The call comes from your own home, 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 Call Comes From Your Own Home The success of a horror story is making the reader or the spectator believe it. For that you have to use your friend Credibility. If you want to write for a living, obviously it's very important to have creativity, but there is one thing that is much more important than that, which is credibility. This means that the reader, in any scenario that you have imagined, believes that what is happening is true. Be careful, credible is not the same as real. For example, "Hansel and Gretel." Is it real that two children lost in the woods are in the house of a cannib...”
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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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