Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
Choosing the Narrator and the Verb Tense
A course by Raquel Castro , Writer
About the video: Choosing the Narrator and the Verb Tense
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to define from which point of view the story is going to be narrated according to the effect we want to achieve on the reader.”
In this video lesson Raquel Castro addresses the topic: Choosing the Narrator and the Verb Tense, 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
“Choose the narrator and verb tense Now that we know who our character is, what will happen to him and what are the main points of our story, we can start writing, but first we have to define something what is really worth spending some time on: How are we going to tell it? From what point of view? Suppose we have our planned environment again, our narrated world. A story that will take place at night, where there will be a werewolf. What else do you like there? Some bat out there. Everything will happen in a pantheon and, why not?, in a haunted house. Who is going to tell this story? Where ...”
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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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