Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
Influences
A course by Jimena Eme Vázquez , Playwright and Storyteller
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to talk to you about the most important influences that my work has. ”
In this video lesson Jimena Eme Vázquez addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters . Learn to write dialogues that express the intention, emotions, and personality of your characters .
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences I'm going to talk to you about the most important influences of my work. In addition to having favorite authors, I have a group of works that I constantly reread. Whenever I reread them, I notice something that I did not distinguish in past readings. This is an exercise that perhaps the novels do not allow so much. It sounds a bit tiring to read the same novel twice a year, although I do not doubt that someone does, but with the plays, it is very possible and very enriching. A work that I constantly reread is "Betrayal" by Harold Pinter. There are several things that I like about...”
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Course summary for: Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
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Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Video & TV, Narrative, Script, Writing
Jimena Eme Vázquez
A course by Jimena Eme Vázquez
Jimena Eme Vázquez has been writing stories since she was a child. As she wanted to be an actor, she studied Dramatic Literature and Theater at the UNAM (Mexico City). Through combining these two disciplines she quickly discovered her true calling, and in 2014 she debuted her first piece as a professional playwright.
Today, she writes novels, stories for young people, and above all, plays. Her name has appeared on posters for pieces like Piel de mariposa (Butterfly Skin), Un beso en la frente (A kiss on the forehead) and No todas viven en Salem (They don't all live in Salem). She won first prize for the Vicente Leñero Young Dramatist award as well as the Cuenta Conmigo contest.
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