Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
Create a Dice to Generate a Story
A course by Natalia Méndez , Editor and teacher
About the video: Create a Dice to Generate a Story
Overview
“We are going to create some dice that generate stories, a simple tool that serves as a guide when creating a story or helping us to get out of a blockade. Also, of course, they serve to play and have fun among friends.”
In this video lesson Natalia Méndez addresses the topic: Create a Dice to Generate a Story, which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books. Learn the basic components of a story to create tales for children.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this unit, Let's start with our own story. For this we will work with a restrictive technique of ideas. Why is it so? Because, many times, when we think: "Well, I am going to write a story that can be of whatever". We cannot finish deciding where to move forward. So, we are going to work with a technique where chance It will help us to choose our elements. And we are going to go through all the specificities that has a history or the elements you have to have to know how to move forward with the plot. And we'll investigate the possibilities of the structure. The first thing we are going ...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Natalia Méndez
A course by Natalia Méndez
Natalia Méndez has been working as a publisher of books for children and young people since 2002.
It has its own artisan publishing label, called "Dábale arroz", together with Eduardo Abel Giménez and a very small ceramic and mini-book business "A la zorra".
She obtained a scholarship as a researcher from the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich and, in 2012, participated in the Frankfurt Fellowship program at the Frankfurt Book Fair. And in addition, he gives classes in the Publishing and Literature career (UBA), training for writers (Casa de Letras) and training for children's book publishers.
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