Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
Influences
A course by Raquel Castro , Writer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now I will share with you some of my most important influences; artists from different times who combine horror with humor and who inspired me to do what I do in my stories.”
In this video lesson Raquel Castro addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“influences This time I am going to share with you some of my influences, authors who somehow have been influencing what I like to write and the way I like to do it. The most important, without a doubt, is Jean Ray, a Belgian writer of the 20th century who wrote many detective stories, but also of ghosts, walking cemeteries, vampires and extremely strange things. What I really like about Jean Ray is that all of its main characters are ordinary people living ordinary lives until, suddenly, he finds himself in the middle of a macabre situation. I highly recommend it. This other book is also by...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
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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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