Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
Telling Without Intermediaries
A course by Jimena Eme Vázquez , Playwright and Storyteller
About the video: Telling Without Intermediaries
Overview
“In this lesson we will see what are the characteristics that make the dialogue different from the narrative according to Aristotle's Poetics and I will also tell you what are the elements that constitute the drama. ”
In this video lesson Jimena Eme Vázquez addresses the topic: Telling Without Intermediaries, 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
“Count without intermediaries Let's start with Unit 2 and in this lesson I am going to start by telling you about Aristotle because whenever we talk about dialogues or theater, you have to start with Aristotle, it is almost inevitable. The first thing I want to tell you about Aristotle is that he makes a distinction in the written arts by the modes of imitation and he distinguishes the modes and non-mediated modes. Mid modes are those that have a figure that we will filter the information of the story. We have the fictional universe. There is a figure that filters all that information to us,...”
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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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