Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
Writing and Editing
A course by Raquel Castro , Writer
About the video: Writing and Editing
Overview
“It's time to write a scene. In this lesson I will explain my process: first I wrote the scene in my notebook and then I transferred it to the computer so I could review and correct it.”
In this video lesson Raquel Castro addresses the topic: Writing and Editing, 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
“write and review By this time you should already have your world planned, your main character, the idea of what is going to happen to him and the main points of your story. I hope that you have also chosen which of these points it is the one that you are going to turn into the scene of your final project. I just reviewed everything we did together And I decided that I'm going to do a scene about the moment that Charlie, that boy who was my comic relief or that I've decided to be comic relief, he becomes one of the zombies. I prefer to write first by hand and in this case I made the whole sc...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
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Category
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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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