Character Creation for Novels
Influences
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I would like to share with you the literary characters that have most influenced me as a person and as a writer. Reading, in addition to being fundamental if we want to write, is a constant source of inspiration. We always drink from other authors and learn from them. ”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“influences In this lesson I am going to talk to you about who have been the characters that have influenced me the most, first as a reader and then as a writer. I really like fantasy. I have been a reader of fairy tales when I was a child, but I still like stories and illustrated stories very much. Within the fantasy there is a book with a character that marked me. It is the book of "The thousand and one nights", the character of Scheherazade, of a woman who saves her life by chaining one story to another. It has always been for me the symbol how literature can save your life. If you rememb...”
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Course summary for: Character Creation for Novels
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Areas
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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