Recently we have talked about the benefits in children of telling a story well, and that many times it is not necessary to disburse a large amount of money in new stories, since we can invent our own stories. That is why today we will say several tricks to invent a story.
There are numerous techniques and resources that help us create stories with an important imaginative load and thus ensure that children are attracted to our stories, when the stories they have on their shelves no longer give them enough motivation.
Then we will talk about some of the most used techniques when creating children's stories, although thanks to the day-to-day experience they can be modified according to each child and even many others can be created.
The technique of special binomial It is that from two words there is a shock that gives rise to many situations of great imagination. For example: dog / cat (the story of the dog and cat that find a toy and both want it) or dragon / glasses (the story of the dragon who lost his glasses and could not read).
There is also the resource, of great creative stimulation, of stories with different endings. In it, we as a storyteller tell a story which we cut at the moment of greatest intrigue, asking our son to be the one to finish it. If we have several young children, we can make each one tell his final version of the story.
The questioned word It consists of choosing a word that is very striking and manages to capture the attention of the child. Once selected, we must consider different reasons, selecting a very curious one to invent the story based on it, trying to find a credible explanation, even if it is not true. For example: if we choose the word "fish", we can create a story where we resolve the question of why fish live in water.
The questions serve to invent stories. That is, by giving logical answers to various questions, we can create a very attractive story for our children. We are asking the questions to answer with your imagination. You can also use the questions to guide the storytelling where we want to. For example: "One good day, a very large and violet dragon found a frog that was jumping in a pond. It asked the dragon: why are you violet?"
Another highly imaginative technique is the question what would happen if… ?. We must create, from a hypothesis (true, absurd, magical ...), a story. For example: what would happen if the planes had feathers?
We can also use drawings To create stories From an image, we must imagine what history it saves. We must tell what it conveys to us and what are the elements that symbolize those feelings and that story we are creating.
The metaphor It is a literary resource used by many writers and that consists in the identification of a real term with an image term. We can incorporate some existing ones or create some of them, to generate a story that explains it to us. For example: that boy had the head the size of a pin.
There are many more, but these tricks to invent a story They are the most employed. Of course, at the time of concluding our story, we have to make sure that it ends well: "they lived happily and ate partridges", "colorful red, this story is over", etc. Do you dare to invent a story to your sons and daughters?
