Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
Monologue (Dialogue 4)
A course by Jimena Eme Vázquez , Playwright and Storyteller
About the video: Monologue (Dialogue 4)
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk to you about monologues, the possibilities they have and the differences that exist between them and other types of narratives. ”
In this video lesson Jimena Eme Vázquez addresses the topic: Monologue (Dialogue 4), 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
“Monologue We already have three written dialogues. Now it was time to write the fourth and last. In this case, the goal is that the entire enunciation falls on a single character. I will write a monologue. Monologues are varied in length. Maybe in a dialogue between two characters one of the characters begins to monologue and that monologue lasts two or three paragraphs. Or we can have entire works that are of a single character talking for ninety minutes. In the theater there is another similar figure that is the soliloquy. There also only one character speaks. The difference is that in 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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