Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters
The historical branches
A course by Idalia Sautto , Writer and Historian
About the video: The historical branches
Overview
“Have you thought about how many timelines there are? Have you placed yourself in one? If you remember ... How many great-grandparents do you remember their full names? Think that doing historiography, “writing a story” is also writing fiction, history is full of gaps, how is the “official” history of any country filled? Imagine that your country is your universe and that you have your own character in there. In this lesson you will learn how to place it on a timeline.”
In this video lesson Idalia Sautto addresses the topic: The historical branches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters . Write a unique story based on the development of a character and their historical context .
Partial transcription of the video
“The historical branches Once you have your two family trees set up, on the one hand, where do you come from, who are your siblings, your pets, your parents, your grandparents, great-grandparents ..., you must have also made a tree with all your references: what did you study, what do you like, if there is something more important in the cinema or on television ... And all those are topics that you can write down in a notebook to get a special character out of there that you are interested in addressing. In the previous lesson We saw what possibly the characters we want to address are. In my...”
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Course summary for: Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Narrative, Writing
Idalia Sautto
A course by Idalia Sautto
Idalia Sautto is a writer and historian. Her passion for creating elaborate universes full of wonder has led her to publish several children's books and write articles, essays, and chronicles for a wide variety of audiences.
Her first published book, Checo (2010), emerged from a series of interviews she did with her grandfather; it's her first children's book and her first publication as a historian. With a career devoted to writing and editing books, it was only a matter of time before she decided to launch a personal editorial project. In 2016, she founded her own publishing company Pitzilein Books, which focuses on editing and publishing books from artists, illustrators, and writers who walk the line between literary genres like chronicle and fiction, philosophy and literature, and graphic works and children's literature.
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