Writing a Novel Step by Step

Overview

“It is time to access our unconscious, our child self, to use divergent thinking instead of convergent. It is time to have fun, to play, to meet up, to decide what we are going to write about, what interests us, what excites us or terrifies us. It is time to go in search of our inner world. ”

In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Looking for Us 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

“Finding Yourself We're going to devote this lesson to finding ourselves. We're going to explore those themes that we could use at any given point and we're going to better explore what it is that motivates us, that makes us curious when it comes to writing a novel. That'll become our theme. Sometimes you already know what you want to write. You want to write about love, about injustice, for instance. But sometimes you don't. Sometimes you don't know exactly what you want to write about. But you just need to know that the more authentic your writing is, the better it'll be. Fiction is a sort...”

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Course summary for: Writing a Novel Step by Step

• Level: Beginner
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• 73343 students
• 5 units
• 23 lessons (4h 36m)
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• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creative Writing, Creativity, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing