Character Creation for Novels
The point of view
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: The point of view
Overview
“Now is the time to decide from which point of view you are going to tell your story. In this lesson we will talk about total, half and partial immersion. ”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: The point of view, 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
“The point of view In this lesson we will see the point of view from which to tell the story. It is an important decision. you are creating a character and you decide that it is the point of view of the character you are creating, the one that will be seen more in history. There are three types of relationship that we can establish between character and point of view: obsessive immersion, total immersion, partial immersion. Are you going to tell the story inside the character's head? The point of view that will be seen will be only what you think, what you feel, your point of view of the wor...”
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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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