Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters

Sketch the character's writing

A course by Idalia Sautto , Writer and Historian

Writer and Historian. Mexico City, Mexico.
Joined September 2020
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1,372 students
Audio: Spanish
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About the video: Sketch the character's writing

Overview

“How many stories can be told of a single character? As many as there are writers who want to tell that story again. Is a historical character a fictional character? Yes and no. Remember that history is made up of ambivalences, and that these ambiguities will be very useful when writing your own story.”

In this video lesson Idalia Sautto addresses the topic: Sketch the character's writing, 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

“Sketch the character's writing In this lesson we will see how we can download images a given historical context. In the last lesson we just made a timeline that explained perfectly where we were standing and where we can locate the character. Now, if you have done all the exercises, you can visualize certain images that have to see with the historical context you decided on. I brought here some examples, including the example of Peggy Guggenheim, What is the character that I am interested in addressing for the final project. Sometimes thinking the story is much easier if we think about it w...”

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Course summary for: Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters

  • Level: Beginner
  • 98% positive reviews (49)
  • 1372 students
  • 4 units
  • 14 lessons (2h 50m)
  • 2 downloads
  • Category

    Writing
  • Areas

    Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Narrative, Writing

Idalia Sautto

Idalia Sautto
A course by Idalia Sautto

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Writer and Historian

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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Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters

A course by Idalia Sautto
Writer and Historian. Mexico City, Mexico.
Joined September 2020
  • 98% positive reviews (49)
  • 1,372 students