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. we will begin with our own story. To achieve this. we will employ a restrictive technique generating ideas. Why use such a method? Because frequently. when faced with the task of writing a story can be about anything. we find ourselves unable to determine the best way to move forward. We're uncertain about our next destination. Thus. we'll employ a method where randomness aids in selecting our elements. This approach helps when indecision strikes. And we will go through all the... details a story requires or the components necessary to progress the narrative. We will delve int...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
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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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