Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
Character Systems
A course by Jimena Eme Vázquez , Playwright and Storyteller
About the video: Character Systems
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk about the systems that I design to establish relationships and dynamics between the characters, and that can help to find conflicts. ”
In this video lesson Jimena Eme Vázquez addresses the topic: Character Systems, 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
“Character systems In this lesson we are going to talk about the relationship between the characters And for that I'm going to show you something that I call character systems. I do not doubt that there is another author that has come to a similar conclusion to which I am going to show you, but I do want to tell you that this is something that I theorized over time and that nobody taught me. I saw that this type of system was super important when doing my own works and i realized it was something i could extract and theorize to share it with other people. The great benefit I find in these ch...”
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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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