Writing a Novel Step by Step
The Conflict
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: The Conflict
Overview
“The conflict is a direct route to the heart and mind of the character. If we know his conflicts and the strategies he decides to follow in each of them, we will know him. Also, the conflict is essential to specify the plot of the novel, since all its dramatic force will reside in the conflict. ”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: The Conflict, 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
“Conflict In this lesson, we're going to talk about conflict, where all the dramatic power of the novel lies. Thanks to conflict, characters evolve, and heroes or antiheroes will show what they're made of. Let's see it. As we've seen, conflict drives the plot. That's what moves your story forward. It's a straight line to the character's heart too. Conflict will make the character make decisions, and then we'll see what his feelings are. We'll see his contradictions and also his personality. That is, conflict will make that character more human. The character is who he is because he emerges f...”
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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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