Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
The traditional structure
A course by Natalia Méndez , Editor and teacher
About the video: The traditional structure
Overview
“How the structure of introduction, node and descence works.”
In this video lesson Natalia Méndez addresses the topic: The traditional structure, 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 think about different possibilities for the structure of our story. First, let's think on a traditional structure. Already Aristotle had raised that the narrative structure could be divided or understood in what he calls three acts. We would have a beginning. This is what we all know of the school as an introduction, knot and outcome, surely, but let's think about it a little more in detail and using as an example our elements, to see what story we get. The structure can help us to think different possibilities for our story. We go following each scheme and we see what h...”
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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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