Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters
The story is also fiction
A course by Idalia Sautto , Writer and Historian
About the video: The story is also fiction
Overview
“How to know which way to go once the horizon is open. First you have to write each of the parts of your story. Even if it is provisional, it is necessary to know who your character is and what you want to tell about him in order to then place him in a context and make him live his own adventure. ”
In this video lesson Idalia Sautto addresses the topic: The story is also fiction, 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 story is also fiction In this lesson we will see that history is also fiction. The question is, why or how? If we think about how history was written, we will realize that its origin has to do with a literary form. History, before being written, it was being transmitted orally, this was called oral history. And all those oral histories were later transcribed and in that way we arrive at a story that is finally born from literature. Later, around the seventeenth or eighteenth century, these two branches begin to separate. History and literature begin to take two different paths. What are...”
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Course summary for: Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters
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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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