Character Creation for Novels
Characters in action
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: Characters in action
Overview
“Now we will see how the characters relate to each other and make sense depending on whether they are complementary or opposite. I will talk to you about the concept of protagonist, antagonist, secondary character and collective character. ”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: Characters in action, 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
“characters in action We will now see our character in relation to other characters in the story. If it will be protagonist, antagonist, secondary or even a collective character. It is possible that in your history the character you have created is the only one there is. But if you are going to put this character in a story in which there are other characters, we will see what possible relationships can be established between them and we will also see what forces we can say there will be between these different characters. Protagonist or main character. It can be one or it can be several. It...”
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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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