Creativity Techniques: Writing for Children
Influences
A course by Luis Téllez Tejeda , Writer, children’s literature teacher, and scriptwriter
Joined September 2020
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk to you about the authors and the texts that have inspired me to explore my own paths, based on the works they have published. ”
In this video lesson Luis Téllez Tejeda addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creativity Techniques: Writing for Children. Learn to play with words and discover new tools to create engaging texts that captivate the little ones .
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson I will tell you about some authors whose texts have inspired me to explore my own paths from the works they have published. All of us, when we were children, we played with words, we made up some new ones, we laughed when we found that two words were very alike. We narrated what happened to us exaggerating it, we ordered the words by name. There are a thousand and one ways to play with the word. Some books take advantage of these games to structure their texts and offer the children something really fun. A book that uses the game to present something interesting to...”
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Course summary for: Creativity Techniques: Writing for Children
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Narrative, Script, Writing

Luis Téllez Tejeda
A course by Luis Téllez Tejeda
Luis Téllez Tejeda is a writer, children’s literature teacher, and scriptwriter. Over the last 15 years, he has focused on researching, amplifying, and promoting books for children. He has published texts with publishers like Oink, La Cifra, and La Dïéresis, and has written scripts for audiovisual media and shows for children. He has also taught courses and workshops on children’s literature in different institutions and independently.
He enjoys investigating the world in scientific books, exploring dictionaries, and analyzing everyday life to discover what lies beyond what we can see with the naked eye, which awakens his imagination and inspires him to write.
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