Poema de Miguel Hernández, música de Serrat.
Autor: Merriam A. Grain
Despite his size,
he moved the body or to be precise, the unconscious guy he had tied.
A spin a time,
A spin in life.
Tomorrow it would be a feast,
All liquified.
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Cuentos sobre el lector
El cuento de la criada. Margaret Atwood.El relato de Defred tiene dos grupos de lectores: el que aparece al final del libro, en una convención académica del futuro, que goza de libertad para leer, pero no siempre resulta tan empático como uno quisiera; y el formado por los lectores individuales de la novela en cualquier época. Ése es el lector «real», ese «querido lector» al que se dirigen todos los escritores.
Y al que le rezamos cada noche para que compre el maldito libro… Oops. Yo no soy publicada, no tengo influencias y luego me piden que compre un libro de la nada para que lo critique. ¿Alguien me lee?
As for life’s little difficulties, they are myriad. What writer hasn’t had to work with a toothache, with bills due, with a baby sick in the next room or the same room, with the in-laws visiting, or at the end of a love affair, or with the government demanding the filling out of endless forms?
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction Patricia Highsmith, 1983
I might add: running away sheep, barking dogs, being under the blankets cause there’s no electricity to use a heater, two cats using you as a warm couch, yadda yadda.
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Amazing?
In her shrine,
The front paws in pray.
I don't know to what.
A dream, a stay.
Doubt scintillates,
What's next brings a demise.
The many legs left behind,
To be reborn a kite.
De acuerdo con las nociones medievales de la Historia, Eneas de Troya y sus descendientes conquistaron y bautizaron diversos reinos, y Félix Bruto, después de cruzar el canal de la Mancha, «las aguas francesas», funda Britania…
Este marco histórico se basa en un conjunto de leyendas y temas memorables de la literatura que recogieron y desarrollaron, no sin talento, Nennio (s. IX) y Geoffrey de Monmouth (s. XII). En el fondo no hacían sino cumplir el modelo de la Historia que se tenía en el Medievo, en el cual al estudiar el pasado no se pretendía hacer acopio exhaustivo de datos, sino más bien ensalzar las virtudes en aventuras y hechos de armas, ya fueran reales o imaginarios, para dar «ejemplos» al porvenir. Desde este punto de vista, digamos didáctico, el relato y la crónica no se solían diferenciar.Nota al pie. Sir Gawain y el caballero verde.
Here we are again trying to discover the “secrets” of dialogue in writing.
MIX DIALOGUE, EXPOSITION PARAGRAPHS AND AMBIENT
Don’t ask. I still have no idea what exposition paragraphs are. Just add some interest by describing. Tell us the colour of the curtains or the burnt on the carpet. Too much dialogue and Domet says it gets boring. I find dialogue pretty much likeable. Again, I haven’t been published and can discreetly utter nonsense.
USE SHORT PARAGRAPHS OF DIALOGUE
Do you like speeches? I certainly remember school ‘civic’ ceremonies at 7 morning in winter (freaking cold) and 9 morning in summer (already hot enough to have one or two faints). All of them a bother. Dialogues are there to have flow not to Clonazepam people.
IT IS A FIGHT! NOT A SCREAMING CONTEST!
In fights people do yell at each other. But they will use short phrases and not black Friday lines followed by exclamation marks. Or exclamation marks in a train of sentences…
I don’t know but in A family’s tale by Christine Nöstlinger, there are parts in which I’ve found three sentences in exclamation marks all packed together in the same paragraph. Although, those weren’t dialogue.
READ ALOUD ONCE YOU’RE OVER
The audiobook is for sure to be done and pretty phrases can end up being impossible to be said breathless. Mind it. Domet says it will have you noticing if it is natural or not. I say one needs the experience of talking to other people or listening to others in the bus (when you’re shy).
EVERY CHARACTER SPEAKS DIFFERENTLY
This is quite visible (for those who can read Japanese) in manga. Some characters are country bumpkins and speak kanzaiben and others are authentic Tokyoites. Yet… What is one to do when the difference is only in pronunciation? You need to listen to people. Go out and listen! Use spelling mistakes if needed. Ifigenia de la Parra (White mama’s memories), mentioned the possibility of using music paper; given the fact written words are deaf to tune. And they are. You can’t reproduce cadence or pronunciation just by writing it. Even the addition of particular words do nothing unless the reader is aware.
That’s it. May I get some dialogue through a comment? Pasto kalo.
‘Instagram ya tiene subtitulos! Lo que es enojos y genial a partes iguales
Bloated and forgotten.
Lying on the way to rot.
Gray instead of white.
When white was the colour it should had.
Changing day by day,
Into mushroom pie.
How did you die that even ants are not touching your remains?