Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
Dialogue Reformulation
A course by Jimena Eme Vázquez , Playwright and Storyteller
About the video: Dialogue Reformulation
Overview
“In this lesson I will explain to you how I review the dialogues and how I reformulate some sentences or entire parliaments to make it more complex. ”
In this video lesson Jimena Eme Vázquez addresses the topic: Dialogue Reformulation, 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
“Dialogue reformulation Now is the time to start correcting. Once we have the dialogs already written, comes my favorite moment of the process, which is the reformulation. When writing the first version of the dialogues I always try to make them very free, that the characters go marking the sequence of what has to happen and I don't dwell on the details. But at the time of reformulation, so yes i stop at every parliament to see how they say things and how emotions affect them. If writing dialogues were like drawing a drawing, that first version is a pencil stroke that marks the proportions a...”
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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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