Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
Actions and Descriptions
A course by Raquel Castro , Writer
About the video: Actions and Descriptions
Overview
“Now I am going to show you some strategies so that you can develop actions and descriptions within your scary story for teenagers.”
In this video lesson Raquel Castro addresses the topic: Actions and Descriptions, 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
“actions and descriptions Each passage of our story will be made up of three elements: action, description and dialogue and it will be according to how we combine these three elements that we are going to give them a different rhythm to our different parts of the narrative. For example, if we have a scene in which the description is very detailed and very long, we can even bore our reader because you will feel that absolutely nothing is happening. And vice versa, if we have a part where the description is minimal and instead, many things happen, can create a feeling that everything is coming...”
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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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