Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
The Skeleton of the Story and Its Importance 1
A course by Raquel Castro , Writer
About the video: The Skeleton of the Story and Its Importance 1
Overview
“Since we already know the protagonist, now comes the time to decide what is going to happen to her. In this lesson I will explain what are the most important points of a story and how we can define them in our creation.”
In this video lesson Raquel Castro addresses the topic: The Skeleton of the Story and Its Importance 1, 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 skeleton of history and its importance Very well, since we know who something is going to happen to and in what world will it happen, It is time for us to plan very well what is going to happen to him. This works more or less like when we tell a gossip or a joke, something that happened to someone we know. We have to find a way to narrate it that really catches the attention of our interlocutor, when it comes to gossip, or our reader, when we tell a story or a novel. How do we do this? That is why it helps us to know the dramatic structure of the story, that is, its framework, its skele...”
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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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