Creating Children's Stories
Building Our Story
A course by Ilan Brenman , Writer and Best-Selling Author
About the video: Building Our Story
Overview
“In this lesson, you will see a step by step how to fit our idea into the suggested narrative structure.”
In this video lesson Ilan Brenman addresses the topic: Building Our Story, 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
“Building our Story In this lesson, we'll start to develop our story from the structure suggested. A story starts with a mission. Our character, our boy, wakes up and starts to speak a language nobody understands. What's his mission? Could it be to find a new family that understands him? Or that he becomes bilingual, or not? The mission I chose is that our boy will go back to speaking his original language. Second point. Do you remember what it is? A trip from a familiar place to an unknown one. Let's think. What can be his journey? I said previously that it's a journey of growth and becomin...”
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Course summary for: Creating Children's Stories
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Category
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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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