Creative Prompts for Writing Stories

Overview

“You already have a few premises starring an interesting character. It's been fun creating them, right? You have seen that the idea of a story can be practically summed up in a sentence thanks to the premise. There are many ways to summarize a story and you will find many terms: synopsis, logline, tagline, etc. Once we have a clear idea, we can tell it in hundreds of different ways, give it one look or another. And that's where the issue comes in. In this lesson I will teach you what the theme in a story is and how it will help guide you in the writing process.”

In this video lesson Jorge Gonzalvo addresses the topic: The topic, 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 topic In this lesson I will talk about the topic of stories. As I told you in the presentation, When I was little I used to read books under the bed with a flashlight. So much so that I became myopic from reading so much, but I perfectly remember that feeling of reading those books and how the flashlight illuminated, illuminated the pages of those stories. That is the metaphor that I want to tell you to explain the subject. The theme, of course, is neither the moral nor is it a message that we want to convey to readers or viewers. The theme is that light that will illuminate you to deci...”

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Course summary for: Creative Prompts for Writing Stories

• Level: Beginner
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• 1430 students
• 5 units
• 19 lessons (3h 27m)
• 13 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Creative Writing, Creativity, Storytelling