Character Creation for Novels
What is a character?
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: What is a character?
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk about the character as a structural element of every story. Its construction starts from us, from our emotions, until it becomes a being with its own life. To do this, we have to trust him and us as writers, and surrender to the mystery.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: What is a character?, 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
“What is a character? In this lesson we are going to see what a character is. A character is a structural element of the story, just like time or space or place, in such a way that without a character there is no story. The character can be a person, but it can also be an animal. In this montage we see in this photo of "Alice in Wonderland" one of the characters is that cute rabbit who was always late. Here you have a character who is an animal. It can also be a fantastic being, like the famous hobbits from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy or from the book "The hobbit", the orcs or the white ...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Character Creation for Novels
-
Category
Writing -
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.
- 99% positive reviews (151)
- 8,111 students
- 14 lessons (2h 40m)
- 21 additional resources (8 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
