Writing a Novel Step by Step
Materials 1
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Materials 1
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you about the materials that I propose to use in the course. There will be two notebooks, one to exercise your creativity and go hunting for new ideas, and the other where you will work on the structural elements of a novel. ”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Materials 1, 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
“Materials In this lesson, you'll learn about the materials I use before starting to write a novel. I'll tell you how important it is to me to select the right notebooks where I'll develop the crucial elements of the novel, all the emotional research, and the research into ideas and creative exercises, which will help me create that new world we'll set foot in, the world of our novel. For me, buying a notebook is part of a ritual. I mean, I come into a store and I need the notebook to call out to me somehow. Maybe you don't know what you'll write about, whether it'll be a love story, or a no...”
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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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