Writing a Novel Step by Step
Time Jumps: Narrative Form and Tension
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Time Jumps: Narrative Form and Tension
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to talk to you about time management, fundamental when building our novel. It is necessary to be very clear about the novel's focus of greatest interest - the main event - and to build the timeline from it, the order in which the events will unfold. I show you!”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Time Jumps: Narrative Form and Tension, 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 Jumps Narrative Form and Tension In this lesson, we're going to talk about time control, which is a fundamental element for the development of our novel. We're going to organize all the events of the novel in a timeline. We'll see the time leaps we can make... ...and the consequences they'll have... ...on our narrative tension. Let's take a look. So here we have the events we've chosen to include in our novel and the timeline where we're going to arrange them. In that sense, we'll distinguish when the events occur and when they are being told. When events occur refers to the text time ...”
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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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