Writing Children's Novels from Start to Finish

Overview

“Writers require constant practice to improve our style. In this lesson I will give you a practice that will improve your technique and another that will challenge your inventive capacity.”

In this video lesson Olney Goin addresses the topic: Activating your imagination, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing Children's Novels from Start to Finish. Transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and write your first novel for young readers, from the initial idea to the final page.

Partial transcription of the video

“Activating your imagination In this lesson we will see a very simple way to use your daily life to turn it into something that has nothing to do with everyday life, plus a trick my mom taught me years ago, when the ideas did not come to me when doing a school assignment. Practice makes a master. I'm not going to ask you to work every day on a soap opera, since maybe you don't have one or you don't know how to continue what you've already started, but I will ask you to work every day on yourself. Just as an athlete prepares hundreds of hours to run 10 seconds, you will have to write hundreds...”

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Course summary for: Writing Children's Novels from Start to Finish

• Level: Beginner
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• 887 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 8m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Children's Literature, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing