Writing a Novel Step by Step
Imagination 1
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Imagination 1
Overview
“We are going to let go of the crazy woman in the house who is our imagination. To do this, we will try to get rid of the blocks that affect our creativity and hinder the development of all the potential that we carry within. It is time to shut up our critical and censorious side, to enjoy and have fun in this first phase of creation, where we can overcome our limits and censorship, it also allows us to create original ideas related to ourselves.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Imagination 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
“Imagination In this lesson, we'll talk about how to release the nutty of the house. That is, our imagination. Writing a novel involves two stages. In the first stage, we could say it's a stage determined by divergent thinking. That is, a stage where we need to unleash our imagination so that our creativity may expand and be at its peak. It's the time of the famous brainstorming. The moment when ideas pour. The moment to make unexpected connections, a fantastic method to get your creativity flowing. Finding the secret connection, we can say, between two things or two ideas that seem to be un...”
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Course summary for: Writing a Novel Step by Step
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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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