Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
About Me
A course by Raquel Castro , Writer
About the video: About Me
Overview
“I'm going to start by telling you my story. In this lesson I will tell you how I decided to write professionally and create scary stories for children and adolescents.”
In this video lesson Raquel Castro addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults. Learn the best strategies to write horror stories from scratch and keep young adults on the edge of their seats.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, my name is Raquel Castro Maldonado and I am a writer. I started writing when I was very young and I did it, above all, to entertain my friends. I really liked taking readings from school textbooks and adapt them to the stories of my friends, the boys they liked, the things they were living, because somehow that way I got their attention. I became a bit the center of attention and, the truth, is that she was the joker of the group. Over time, I realized that nothing else served to make people laugh, that I could communicate with them through those thoughts that I had, if ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
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Areas
Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Raquel Castro
A course by Raquel Castro
Raquel Castro is passionate about stories: listening to them, reading them, watching them on the screen... but above all, inventing them. In particular, she likes to write humor and horror, as well as cover topics related to adolescence and childhood.
Her first book, Ojos llenos de sombra, won the Gran Angular Youth Literature Award (Mexican edition) in 2012. Since then, she has written and published several novels, a book of short stories, a book of essays and, in collaboration with writer Alberto Chimal, a writing manual entitled Cómo escribir tu propia historia.
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