Character Creation for Novels
Character Creation 2
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Character Creation 2
Overview
“I continue characterizing my character, in this case defining his family and social context, and his relationship with the rest of the attributes.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Character Creation 2, 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
“character creation Let's now see the social family module. I have put the name first and I have spoken to you of the importance and the juice that can be extracted from the character's name in the previous lesson. Here I have placed it within the family because the surname is closely related, can tell us many things of the family to which the character belongs. You can put the name of the father, mother, of a brother and then the last name. In this case, the character of Olvido Laguna refers to oblivion but it also marks the saga of women. I'm going to read you the back of the novel: "The L...”
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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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