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What It Is

Cuento II / Estrategias, narradores y estructuras is a teaching blog for a short-story writing course in the Creative Writing bachelor’s program at Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM). The course is positioned as a “theory-practice” class: rather than discussing inspiration or subject matter in general terms, it focuses on developing formal skills in short fiction—how a story is told, who tells it, and in what order it is told.

Core Content

The course is organized around three main modules: narrative strategies, narrators, and complex narrative structures. Topics include description, narration, dialogue, monologue; first-, second-, and third-person narration; narrator categories such as homodiegético, heterodiegético, intradiegético, and extradiegético; as well as narrative frequency, duration, order, flashback/flashforward, frame narratives, and nested structures. Its theoretical foundation clearly draws on narratology and structuralist traditions associated with Genette, Todorov, and others, while grounding those ideas in writing exercises and textual critique.

Pricing and Certification

The captured text does not show course pricing, registration methods, or payment channels. It appears to be a specialized elective within UACM’s Creative Writing Licenciatura. Regarding certification, the text mentions a certifying assessment: students must submit a short story that uses a complex narrative structure, along with an analytical text explaining its strategy, narrator, and structure. However, it does not state whether a separate certificate is issued.

Pros and Cons

The main strengths are its very clear course structure and focused objectives, making it useful for systematically improving short-story technique. Its assessment design is also fairly complete, covering diagnostic, formative, and certifying evaluation. The blog makes the course outline, syllabus, assessment tools, and bibliography public, which can be valuable for both teachers and self-learners. The downside is that it functions more like an internal course resource site than a mature online learning platform; in the comments, the instructor explicitly states that a remote version of the course “has not yet been implemented.” In addition, all content is in Spanish, and the materials appear to be concentrated around 2018–2019, so their current relevance should be verified.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is best suited to creative writers with Spanish reading ability, literature students, narratology learners, and instructors designing a short-story writing course. Access from mainland China cannot be determined from the main text. Since the site relies on the WordPress ecosystem, actual connectivity may vary depending on the network environment; it is best treated as “unknown.”