Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters
The moment of truth
A course by Idalia Sautto , Writer and Historian
About the video: The moment of truth
Overview
“Now you are going to leave your comfort zone and write the same paragraph from three different narrative voices. You will write each section of your graph in triads and you will see what each of the voices offers you.”
In this video lesson Idalia Sautto addresses the topic: The moment of truth, 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 moment of truth In this lesson we are going to do a narrative exercise that part of "El mundo alucinante" by Reinaldo Arenas. Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban-born writer who passed away in 1989, if memory serves me well, in New York, and wrote several books, among them, "The amazing world", which portrays all the adventures that Fray Servando Teresa de Mier had. While I was studying History, I did not know the history of Fray Servando and my first approach to this character it was through Reinaldo Arenas. This is also another example of how a true story it can be narrated through fiction. W...”
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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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