Writing a Novel Step by Step
Presentation
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you about my passion for storytelling since I was a child and the adventure of how I managed to make my way in the publishing world, after practicing law for thirteen years. I will introduce you to some of my novels and to my dog Peca who is always by my side while I write.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing a Novel Step by Step. Learn the keys to writing a novel and stimulate your imagination with practical exercises that connect you with your inner world.
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction Hi, I'm Cristina. Thank you so much for buying this Domestika course. I'll join you in this adventure of writing a novel, but first, I'd like to introduce myself, and tell you about how my passion for writing started. As you can imagine, it started in my childhood. I was a very imaginative girl, and I loved fairy tales. I especially liked Peter Pan's story. I remember this one anecdote. Once, after reading the story to me, my older sister told me Peter Pan would come looking for us in the golden ark with Wendy that night. I don't know if you remember the story. He comes in that...”
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Course summary for: Writing a Novel Step by Step
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Category
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Areas
Creative Writing, Creativity, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Cristina López Barrio
A course by Cristina López Barrio
Cristina López Barrio studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and worked as a lawyer and intellectual property expert for 13 years. In 2009, after winning the Villa Pozuelo de Alarcón Young Adult Novel Award for her book El hombre que se mareaba con la rotación de la Tierra (Everest 2009) and publishing her novel La casa de los amores imposibles (Plaza&Janés, 2010), she decided to fully devote herself to writing.
Since then, La casa de los amores imposibles has been translated into 15 languages and published in 22 countries including the United States, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Sweden, Israel, and Mexico. Cristina has also published a collection of stories titled El reloj del mundo (Flash from Penguin Random House, 2012) and several other novels including El cielo en un infierno cabe (Plaza&Janés 2013), Tierra de brumas (Plaza&Janés 2015), and Rómpete, corazón (Planeta 2019). In October 2017, she was chosen as a finalist for the Premio Planeta award for her novel Niebla en Tánger.
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