Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
Even Monsters Follow Rules: Narrative World Pattern
A course by Raquel Castro , Writer
About the video: Even Monsters Follow Rules: Narrative World Pattern
Overview
“The characters need a context, a world in which to live their adventures. In this lesson I am going to explain to you how it is possible to invent a world that is believable, consistent and credible.”
In this video lesson Raquel Castro addresses the topic: Even Monsters Follow Rules: Narrative World Pattern, 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
“Even Monsters Follow Rules: Narrative World Pattern Sometimes it happens to us that we believe that if we are telling a story fantastic theme, horror, no matter the features, that we can invent and invent everything we want and that nothing happens, the reader has the obligation to believe us and accept all that we are giving you. It is not like this. Even when it comes to stories from a completely made-up world, we need to establish certain rules, some parameters, and we ourselves respect them. Suppose this is my narrated world. I decide that the story I am going to tell takes place in a d...”
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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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