Writing a Novel Step by Step
Everything Is Possible If You Fit Into the Created World
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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: Everything Is Possible If You Fit Into the Created World
Overview
“The main rule for writing a novel is that there are no rules. It is only necessary that both the facts of fiction and the structural elements are coherent in the created world. The persuasive power of a novel is essential so that its truth is not broken, and the reader discovers the author pulling the strings of fiction. For this, the laws of the novel that we have created for our history must be respected.”
In this video lesson user2110730 surname2110730 addresses the topic: Everything Is Possible If You Fit Into the Created World, 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
“Everything's Possible if it Fits in the World You Created Now we'll talk about the rules of the novel. Throughout the course, I've already told you that the main rule is there are no rules. That's it. You're completely free to create your own stories. But once you've created your story, once you've set the structural aspects of that novel, the world you've created has to be consistent. That is, this time, you're going to make the rules. Once you've decided on your story, the world you created is going to have some inner rules which are unique to your novel. That's what will make it consiste...”
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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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