Writing a Novel Step by Step
Theme, Idea and Plot 2
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Theme, Idea and Plot 2
Overview
“One of the things that I like to use is frame models, so now I will explain how these models work. That will help your idea to grow little by little. Also, I will give you certain ideas to turn into an argument.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Theme, Idea and Plot 2, 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
“Theme, Idea, and Plot Now that we've talked about how "Fog in Tangier" was born, by connecting two ideas that were important to me and which I wanted to talk about, now we're going to talk about... how we can continue developing this idea to turn it into plot. Something I like doing is using plot models. We'll see plot models that can help you gradually build on this idea. They're going to give you certain ideas so that you can turn this into a plot. One of the plot lines you'll see more often is the Hero's Journey. This plot... is present in many novels, and many movies. Screenwriters use ...”
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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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