Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
What Will We Do in This Course?
A course by Jimena Eme Vázquez , Playwright and Storyteller
About the video: What Will We Do in This Course?
Overview
“Next, I will talk about the possibilities that a story has when it is told from the voices of the characters and the way in which we will approach the writing of the scenes discussed in this course. ”
In this video lesson Jimena Eme Vázquez addresses the topic: What Will We Do in This Course?, 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
“What will we do in the course? In life, it is common for us to imitate the way of speaking from famous people, from our acquaintances or friends. We listen to conversations all the time and we participate in them ourselves. Even when we hear someone talking on the phone, we can deduce everything that is happening just having one side of the conversation. When writing a story only with the voice of the characters, it can cost us so much work It seems that we have never heard anyone speak. It is true that the dialogues that inhabit plays or novels they are not the same as in everyday life. Th...”
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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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