Creative Prompts for Writing Stories

The amazing storytelling machine

A course by Jorge Gonzalvo , Writer

Writer. Zaragoza, Spain.
Joined February 2019
98% positive reviews (50)
1,449 students
Audio: Spanish
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About the video: The amazing storytelling machine

Overview

“The time has finally come. You are going to learn about one of my favorite artifacts and how it all came about thanks to a book I found by chance in a New York bookstore. That book has given me a lot of fun hours of creative writing. I'm going to tell you the story of how the amazing machine for generating stories was born.”

In this video lesson Jorge Gonzalvo addresses the topic: The amazing storytelling machine, 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

“The amazing storytelling machine In this lesson, I already give you a little spoiler, you will know the amazing machine to generate stories. I am always looking for creative writing books, games, any tools we can use in the creative writing workshops that I usually teach and a few years ago I met this wonder. "The Amazing Story Generator", the amazing story generator. That precisely what it does, and now you will see, it is to summarize or generate possible premises for stories. It works as you have seen so far. That is, we can turn any page of the book, which is divided into three, and you...”

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Course summary for: Creative Prompts for Writing Stories

  • Level: Beginner
  • 98% positive reviews (50)
  • 1449 students
  • 5 units
  • 19 lessons (3h 27m)
  • 13 downloads
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    Writing
  • Areas

    Children's Illustration, Creative Writing, Creativity, Storytelling

Jorge Gonzalvo

Jorge Gonzalvo
A course by Jorge Gonzalvo

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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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Creative Prompts for Writing Stories. Writing course by Jorge Gonzalvo

Creative Prompts for Writing Stories

A course by Jorge Gonzalvo
Writer. Zaragoza, Spain.
Joined February 2019
  • 98% positive reviews (50)
  • 1,449 students