Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
The First Steps Towards the Project
A course by Raquel Castro , Writer
About the video: The First Steps Towards the Project
Overview
“The time has come to start the pre-production of the course project. We must take into account the materials and the space we need, as well as the particular theme that we are going to address. ”
In this video lesson Raquel Castro addresses the topic: The First Steps Towards the Project, 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
“The first steps towards the project Now we will talk about the first steps to follow to be able to do our final project. There is a very generalized idea and I don't like it at all, that is that the muse has to arrive and give you the perfect idea and that in one sitting you are going to write a complete story, be it a story or a novel, and that it will be ready for publication. This idea seems very harmful to me. because when one does not receive the muse or when you write something and it doesn't look good at first, feel you are not talented enough or that he is not cut out for writing. O...”
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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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