Writing Children's Stories for Beginners

Overview

“You have already laid the foundation for your story in the pre-writing phase. Much of what has happened previously prepared you to sit down, now, to write. The essential thing is to define at this moment the structure, which is the backbone of a story. You must first define the sequential and logical order of the great actions, something like the columns that support a house, those pillars that are needed to support it. Then you can design it at your will. Triadic structures and linear developments abound in children's stories, but they are not the only schemes to build a short story for children.”

In this video lesson Fanuel Hanán Díaz addresses the topic: The order of things, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing Children's Stories for Beginners. Captivate young readers by creating universes, characters, and plots they can connect with.

Partial transcription of the video

“The order of things In this lesson we will see the order of things. How should we distribute the elements so that our story is coherent? I invite you to accompany me to this lesson. The structure is the spine, it is the backbone of a story. There are complex stories that can have different subplots, it is something like a river that has tributaries. Instead, there are simple stories, as the case of this structure that we will see, that has to do with the short story for children. Usually in the short story for children triadic structures are used, and they are so called because they have th...”

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Course summary for: Writing Children's Stories for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
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• 3967 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 57m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Children's Literature, Creating with Kids, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing