Creative Writing Lab: Experiment with Words
The narrative
A course by Karen Villeda , Writer and Editor
About the video: The narrative
Overview
“I will teach you how to work with one of the elements of the narrative genre: the character.”
In this video lesson Karen Villeda addresses the topic: The narrative, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Writing Lab: Experiment with Words. Overcome the fear of writing by learning to combine literary genres such as narratives, poetry, and essays.
Partial transcription of the video
“The narrative In this lesson we will work with the narrative aspect of our experimental text. We will transform our favorite animal into a character. What we usually remember most of the great stories are the characters. For example, who could have forgotten the big bad wolf from "Little Red Riding Hood" or "The Three Little Pigs"? Thus, a great character can also be an animal. In this lesson we will only focus In a single word, it is our favorite animal. In my case I will talk about the cat. In my final project the main character is the cat, my favorite animal. I was building this characte...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing Lab: Experiment with Words
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Areas
Creative Writing, Creativity, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling, Writing
Karen Villeda
A course by Karen Villeda
Despite having grown up surrounded by books, Mexican writer Karen Villeda had a lot of difficulty learning to read. Her mother patiently taught her and, before long, she was reading pirate stories by herself, and at just 19, she published her first book. Karen believes that literary genres are interchangeable and can be combined, which is why she considers her writing to be a hybrid.
She has had more than ten books published, and her book Dodo (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro) won the Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven Elías Nandino in 2013 and is part of the Archivo de Literatura Hispánica en Audio. Karen's work has earned her more than fifteen prizes and she has also been writer-in-residence in the University of Iowa. She is currently an editor and gives classes in creative writing.
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