How does a story work? What happens when we write something and someone reads it? What lights up in a reader's imagination after reading or hearing a story?
Il online course aims to answer these questions and to do so by trying some targeted exercises and writing a short one-page story, which contains all the essential elements for the story to work, that is a beginning, a development and an end. We will work to understand who the protagonist of the story is, what they do and why, which language is most appropriate for the type of story we want to tell, the need (or not) to use dialogue and what is the theme of the story we have in mind.
In fact, theme and topic are two different aspects of the narrative and it is important to understand how they differ. And finally, but perhaps the most important aspect, we will become familiar with the pleasure of storytelling. We are human beings and storytelling is an essential need of our species.
Details on the online course
- All lessons live
- Class day: Monday, May 2nd from 23pm Western European Time
- start of the course: May 2, 2022 at 23 pm
The Creative Writing Course will be held by prof. Jacopo Masini
“I've always loved telling and listening to stories. At some point, around the age of fourteen, I even started to really read them. I dove into books - novels, short story collections, whatever - and I haven't stopped since.
So, after a while, I thought that I would like to live on stories, that is, of writing, of storytelling, even if I still didn't know what it meant. And I wasn't sure how to do it. When I was seventeen I did an internship in a publishing house called Pratiche and I found that I liked it. So I decided to enroll in Lettere Moderne and I fell in love with our language, with literature and hundreds of books began to accumulate, in an inexhaustible desire to find out what happened in the history of the Italian language and literature, and how poets did, writers, but also directors or screenwriters doing what they did.
As soon as I finished university, between one job and another, I went to Turin to attend the Holden School of Alessandro Baricco and associates, with whom I then collaborated for about ten years and where I started teaching writing courses in 2005. . Gee, I've been running courses for seventeen years now that I think about it.
In the meantime, I wrote short stories, a novel, some comics, plays, audio guides, short films and a lot of other things that I don't remember, and I founded with Corsi Corsari di Milano a place called Benbow - Writing and Narration, where they are taught to tell and write stories. So, in the end, I managed - at least for now - to do what I dreamed of: living on stories and storytelling, spending most of my time thinking about that. I don't know if it's good, but I like it ”.
To find out the details of the course on the website of our academy, visit this link: https://accademia.italiani.it/course/corso-di-scrittura-creativa-area-sud-america/
