Character Creation for Novels
Objective and conflict
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Objective and conflict
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to investigate what needs our character has, according to the pyramid of the psychologist Abraham Maslow, and how these become his objectives. ”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Objective and conflict, 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
“Objective and conflict In this lesson we will see what is the objective of the character and the conflict that can arise when it comes to achieving it. I found it very interesting to show you Maslow's pyramid. Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist, made this pyramid about human needs which is quite famous and which I find very interesting. At the bottom it puts the needs that have to do with the physiology, the needs of the human being, everything that has to do with breathing, food. The second step has to do with security. Physical security, employment, resources, moral, family, health,...”
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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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