Writing a Novel Step by Step
A Good Start
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: A Good Start
Overview
“Starting to write a text is fascinating. We had the world at our disposal and we have already made a first choice of what we want to tell, among the infinite possibilities that existed. The beginning is also the gateway to the world we have created. Do we want the reader to enter smoothly or with a claw?”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: A Good Start, 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
“A Good Start In this lesson, we'll talk about the beginning of the novel. How are we going to face the blank page? We'll have to find our narrative voice with the first lines. It's also the door that our reader needs to go through to get into the world we've created. We'll see different ways to start a novel, and the emotion, tension, or the feeling we want to convey. Come with me. A Good Start I'd like to start with something important, the title of our novel. You may ask yourself when's the right time to have to title the novel. In my own experience, sometimes I get it before I start, as ...”
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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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