Character Creation for Novels
About Me
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to introduce myself and tell you how my love of stories led me to dedicate myself to writing.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Creation for Novels. Take inspiration from a memory, someone you know, or even a stranger to develop the protagonist for a great story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hi, I'm Cristina López Barrio and I'm a writer. I entered the world of writing through reading. Ever since I was very little, I loved reading stories. Then I started writing poetry in my teens, and once you cross the door from reading to writing, At least in my case, there was no turning back. From poetry, I began to write stories and when I was 18, by family tradition, I started studying Law at the Complutense University of Madrid. But when I was running second, I decided to quit to write my first novel, that I still have stored in a drawer, it's called "The Muscovite Heart", ...”
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Course summary for: Character Creation for Novels
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Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, 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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