Character Creation for Novels
The place and the object 2
A course by Cristina López Barrio , Author
About the video: The place and the object 2
Overview
“Now I am going to tell you several cases in which I have used an object to define or represent a characteristic of my character.”
In this video lesson Cristina López Barrio addresses the topic: The place and the object 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
“place and object We have already seen these four points on which we can rely to define and characterize a character. As for where the story takes place, in this case "The house of impossible loves", He told you many times about this little town in Castile and for me it was a place with a very important emotional charge, because when I was little, my father used to read to me the poetry book of the poet Antonio Machado, "Fields of Castile", and I, who have always lived in Madrid, fantasized about this country land. So when I wrote my first novel, which is "The house of impossible loves", I u...”
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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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