Writing a Novel Step by Step
Our Novel Scheme
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Our Novel Scheme
Overview
“We are going to review all the elements that you have learned and that will help us to embark on the adventure of writing a novel.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Our Novel Scheme, 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
“The Outline for our Novel In this lesson we'll be reviewing all the fundamental novel writing elements that we've studied in previous lessons and that we've been working on in our novel notebook. We've seen how to number the pages and leave some blank in case you want to fill in as you work in the construction of different elements. First, we've talked about the theme which was the heart of the novel. From the theme we've moved to the idea and from the idea to the plot. If you remember, we saw different plot models that could help us. We studied first of all, the hero's journey. Then the pl...”
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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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