Creative Prompts for Writing Stories
When something interesting happens 1
A course by Jorge Gonzalvo , Writer
About the video: When something interesting happens 1
Overview
“When something interesting happens in a story, we want to know how it goes. Makes sense, right? In this lesson we are going to see how premises work in a bit more detail.”
In this video lesson Jorge Gonzalvo addresses the topic: When something interesting happens 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Prompts for Writing Stories. Learn how to overcome creative block and build a story from an original starting point, character, and conflict.
Partial transcription of the video
“when something interesting happens Remember? A story is what happens to a character, but not all stories are interesting. How do we transform a story into something interesting? Stay well with this adjective, interesting, because I'm going to give you a lot of trouble with this from now on. We saw that a very simple way of defining a story is through your premise, with that single sentence that served us to summarize what that story is about, and we have seen that through the "what if" we can have a lot of possible generators of future stories. In this lesson we will stop in how to build a ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Prompts for Writing Stories
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Children's Illustration, Creative Writing, Creativity, Storytelling
Jorge Gonzalvo
A course by Jorge Gonzalvo
Jorge Gonzalvo is a writer, creative writing teacher, and cultural manager. What excites him most about writing is teaching how to create stories, which is why he has been teaching courses and workshops on the subject for more than 15 years. He also gives talks and lectures on literature and the promotion of reading and writing.
He is one of the founding members of Atrapavientos, a non-profit organization that pursues the development, research, and dissemination of all kinds of activities related to children's and young people's literature. In addition, he has published several picturebooks such as Te regalo un cuento, Despedida de tristeza, and Tropecista.
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