Character Creation for Novels
The place and the object 1
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: The place and the object 1
Overview
“In this lesson we will see how to characterize characters through spaces and objects to enrich our story and give it more depth by connecting various elements of it.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: The place and the object 1, 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
“place and object Let's see now another way in which we can continue defining our character and it is in relation to other structural elements of the story. Let's start with the place. We can present a character through a space. Or, if we don't present it, we can characterize it. I will give an example of the Laguna women. In the novel I explain what Laguna women are like, what unites them all through the garden of the red house, which is the farm where they live. It is a garden that does not attend to the weather, we could say. It is a garden in which there are always flowers. It doesn't ma...”
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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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