Writing a Novel Step by Step
Characters: Construction or Possession 2
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Characters: Construction or Possession 2
Overview
“What can add more to your characters? One of the fundamental elements that you can use to characterize your characters more is the time, in addition, I will tell you about "the momentum" that will keep your character on his journey.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Characters: Construction or Possession 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
“Characters Construction or Possession Another key element that will help you a lot when characterizing your characters is to decide in which era your story takes place, because it's not the same talking about a woman who lived in Ancient Egypt than talking about a 20th or 21st century woman. I'd like this story to take place during the 80s of the 20th century, at a time when there were no cell phones or hardly any computers or internet. I want to make it a more analog era. This is an important decision. Maybe you aren't quite sure yet, but the sooner you make it, the better. Because it will...”
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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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