Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
Listening to Your Characters
A course by Jimena Eme Vázquez , Playwright and Storyteller
About the video: Listening to Your Characters
Overview
“In this lesson we will listen to one of the scenes in other people's voices to correct it and distinguish some things that may have escaped our eyes. ”
In this video lesson Jimena Eme Vázquez addresses the topic: Listening to Your Characters, 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
“Listen to your characters It is known that when we write a text, reading it out loud goes a long way in correcting it. In the case of dialogues, it's even better if someone else reads them for you. Regularly when there is a montage of a work of mine, I ask for a first reading that is only for me. It serves to refine ideas that are not understood, to correct repeated words or to complete the sentences that are truncated. If you feel sorry for someone to read your dialogues or you can't find someone to do it, you can record yourself. That will serve you twice, you will correct some things whe...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Writing for Dialogues: Give Voice to Your Characters
-
Category
Writing -
Areas
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.
- 98% positive reviews (253)
- 6,902 students
- 17 lessons (2h 5m)
- 19 additional resources (8 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
