Writing a Novel Step by Step
Influences
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Learn the keys to writing a novel and stimulate your imagination with practical exercises that connect you with your inner world
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I will tell you which writers have most influenced my personal and professional life. How I fell in love with the poet Luis Cernuda and discovered, thanks to my school literature teacher, the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. Our readings are usually present in our writing, especially at the beginning.”
In this video lesson user2110730 surname2110730 addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing a Novel Step by Step. Learn the keys to writing a novel and stimulate your imagination with practical exercises that connect you with your inner world.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, we're going to talk about my influences: the authors who've changed my life as a reader and as a writer. I think I have two authors that actually made me the writer I am today and left their mark on my personal life. Especially in my personal life, and then in my professional life. The first author is the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda. I fell in love with Cernuda when I was 17. I found his poetry, and it conveyed an insight into passion and romance, and in "Reality and Desire," of how he lives that juxtaposition between realities, between real things and the things we...”
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Course summary for: Writing a Novel Step by Step
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Creative Writing, Creativity, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
A course by user2110730 surname2110730
Cristina López Barrio studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and worked as a lawyer and intellectual property expert for thirteen 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 like 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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