Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
Collection of Lines and References
A course by Jimena Eme Vázquez , Playwright and Storyteller
About the video: Collection of Lines and References
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to characterize and prepare the voices of my characters so that they begin to dialogue. ”
In this video lesson Jimena Eme Vázquez addresses the topic: Collection of Lines and References, 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
“Collection of phrases and references We already know who our characters are and what they do. Now we will begin to characterize his way of speaking. For this, we will make a collection of phrases and references for each character. This will begin to generate a theoretical framework for each character that they will face at the time of the dialogues. When I do this exercise of gathering phrases and references for my works, I do not do it in a computer file, I always try to make it something that I see at the same time that I write, Otherwise, I would have to open and close windows to see eve...”
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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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