Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
Who Are Teenagers?
A course by Raquel Castro , Writer
About the video: Who Are Teenagers?
Overview
“The first thing we are going to do in this unit is define what adolescence is and what the needs and interests of readers are at this stage of life. Accompany me!”
In this video lesson Raquel Castro addresses the topic: Who Are Teenagers?, 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
“Who are the teenagers? Now you know me, you know who I am, And I think it's time we got down to business. The first thing we're going to do is to understand who adolescents are, since we are going to write for them. What happens during adolescence? You probably already know, you've already been there or are you passing by right now, but many times we forget or we are not very clear about it, So let's talk about adolescence. What is adolescence? What particular characteristics does it have? Let's see. Adolescence is a changing concept, It's not exactly the same everywhere nor has it been ide...”
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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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