Character Creation for Novels
Where can a character come from?
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Where can a character come from?
Overview
“A character can be the spark from which our story starts. It can be inspired by someone we know, a historical figure, or even an invented character. In both cases, we will see what to do so as not to turn it into a simple puppet at our service. ”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Where can a character come from?, 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
“Where can a character come from? In this lesson we are going to see where a character can come from. It is possible that the character is the spark that ignites the story, that everything starts from a specific character or it may be that the story begins with an idea and let's go find characters. For example, we want to write a story about love in maturity or about teenage love. We want to write a story about the risk of dedicating your life to revenge and we have that idea and we are going to look for a series of characters to tell it. In this course I will tell you how I started from the...”
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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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