Creating Children's Stories
One Writer, Three Roads. First: Recounts
A course by Ilan Brenman , Writer and Best-Selling Author
About the video: One Writer, Three Roads. First: Recounts
Overview
“In this lesson, from my three literary roads, I will show how some of my most successful stories were born and how my experience can help you gain insights when creating your story. Let's start with “Recontos”, stories of popular origin.”
In this video lesson Ilan Brenman addresses the topic: One Writer, Three Roads. First: Recounts, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Children's Stories. Delight young readers with stories inspired by their day-to-day life and awaken the writer within you.
Partial transcription of the video
“A Writer, Three Paths. First Path: Retelling. Hi. In this lesson, we'll talk about my three literary paths. Retelling, pure creation and stories of everyday life. And how they can help you create. Let's start with my first path. Retelling. What is that? These are old stories that were born in orality. Remember the previous lesson? At some moment in time, those stories acted as bases for texts. That's why retelling is done with public domain stories. When you read a Greek myth, there are millions of versions of that same Greek myth. Or of a popular Brazilian tale, or a tale about the Sioux. ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Children's Stories
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creating with Kids, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Ilan Brenman
A course by Ilan Brenman
According to writer Ilan Brenman, he is a fisherman of tales, constantly tuned into the shoal of ideas that surrounds him. Author of the best seller Até as princesas soltam pum, he's already sold over three million copies of his children's books, which have been translated into more than 15 languages worldwide.
His first book was published in 1997 and since then he has released over 80 works. He was also a columnist for Crescer magazine and CBN Radio and has given lectures and participated in television programs both in Brazil and abroad.
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