Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
Why Do We like Fear?
A course by Raquel Castro, Writer
About the video: Why Do We like Fear?
Overview
“Are you a fan of scary stories? In this lesson, we're going to explore why horror is so popular in literature and other arts, particularly among teen audiences.”
In this video lesson Raquel Castro addresses the topic: Why Do We like Fear?, 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
“Why do we like fear? Not all people like scary stories, but those of us who like it a lot we are often asked "why scary stories? what do you gain by frightening yourself?, what is the pleasure to be subjecting you to such torture? It is not torture. Let's see why we like scary stories. The first thing to say about scary stories is that, when we read a horror book or watch a movie that has ghosts, vampires, what do I know, our brain cannot differentiate between that stimulus is fictitious and we are outside of it. That's super interesting. Let's say the scary stories, they go straight to the...”
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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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