Writing a Novel Step by Step
Time
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Time
Overview
“At the time of writing we become gods who manage time at will to tell a story, since a prose text involves the narration of events in a temporal sequence. The objective time that we live is very different from the subjective time that is that of fiction.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Time, 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
“Time in Fiction In this lesson, we're going to discuss another key element when it comes to writing a novel, which is time. For the first time ever, we'll have time on our hands and we'll make use of it as we see fit. Let's write "Fictional Time" in our notebook. The first question we can ask ourselves when planning our timeline in our novel notebook, is when the story happens. We've discussed in other lessons how important it is to choose the point in time when our story happens as we already learned in the unit about characters. The work is not the same when we're creating a character in ...”
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Course summary for: Writing a Novel Step by Step
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Areas
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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