Writing a Novel Step by Step
Of Narrators and Gods 1
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Of Narrators and Gods 1
Overview
“I will tell you about the importance of the narrator in a novel, since it is essential. The narrator is the voice that tells the story and never matches the author.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Of Narrators and Gods 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
“Of Narrators and Gods In this lesson, we'll talk about the narrator voice. It's an absolutely crucial element. If there's no narrator, there's no story. One of the main points to have in mind is that the author, that is, you, is never the narrator. Not even if you're writing a biography. From the moment it starts taking part of the world of the novel or of an autobiography, the author will also become a fictional character, even if you're talking about yourselves. Bear in mind that to maintain the inner consistency of a novel, the narrator's behavior is fundamental. There's nothing more ann...”
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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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