Creativity Techniques: Writing for Children

Playful narrative structures for writing children's literature

“We come to the end of the course, I wish you had played a lot while learning to use some tools to write your text. Before saying goodbye, I am going to give you some recommendations to develop your final project. Always have a notebook and a pen on hand to write down everything you discover about the topic you want to explore. Pay attention to everything that happens around you, any excuse is good to start writing.

Listen with interest the words that are related to the objects, characters, animals or phenomena you want to write about, play with them. Write down the phrases that arise from your games . Look for written, graphic, sound and audiovisual materials that have to do with the topic that interests you, explore them with interest and curiosity and write everything that you find interesting and fun. Take some time to do the exercises that I suggest: relax and start playing. Perform all the tasks and experiment with the possibilities that come to mind, the variations that you imagine will enrich your work. Participate actively in the forums and share your progress. Upload the step by step of your final project, I am very curious to know it. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any doubts or questions, write me in the forum, I will answer you as soon as possible. Thank you for being part of this course, see you soon! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project We reached the end. For me it has been a pleasure to accompany you to discover or remember the traditional structures to play with the word, that can help us to structure texts aimed at girls and boys. I am very curious to know the project that you will carry out from the ideas and concepts that I presented to you in the course. I recommend you not stop playing with language. If you can write daily, do it. Find a time when you practice the exercises what we have seen during the lessons and always write down the ideas that come to mind. An alphabet of riddles, a string that is ...”

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Course summary for: Creativity Techniques: Writing for Children

• Level: Beginner
• 95% positive reviews (57)
• 1400 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 49m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

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