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?
Autor: Merriam A. Grain
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Edad heroica
La edad heroica de la que mejor conocemos los antecedentes, la de los germanos, corresponde plenamente a un período migratorio. Muchos siglos antes, los pueblos germánicos habían entrado en contacto con el Imperio romano, cuya civilización sobrepasaba con mucho la de ellos, pero esta civilización romana se iba debilitando de día en día y los germanos habían quedado sometidos a su influencia. Ahora bien, durante los siglos V y VI de nuestra era, estos germanos lograron ocupar la mayor parte de los territorios del Imperio romano, y es durante estos dos siglos cuando se desarrolla y florece su edad heroica.
Tenemos motivos para creer que todo ocurrió del mismo modo con los sumerios. Su edad heroica, como la de los germanos, debió suceder a su migración, y es muy probable que antes de su llegada a Sumer ya existiera en este país un imperio bastante extenso cuya civilización sobrepasase con mucho la suya.
La historia empieza en Sumer. Noah Kramer.
Let’s continue babbling about how to use dialogue and the things I don’t understand.
DESCRIBE WHAT THE CHARACTERS DO AS THEY TALK
This technique is used to keep interest and to add subtext and tone.
It isn’t the same to say:
Mariana, very angry, said he was an @__35-;!
To to say:
Mariana said he was an #44_67 whilst trying to scratch his face.
Mostly, bad words are enough to show how much of a bother the guy is. Unless we use this:
Mariana said he was an #4#4, holding the front flaps of his jacket and licking his lips.
That turns everything into an erotic game. It all belongs to the rule: show, don’t tell in the technical side of things; plus, avoiding the adverbs.
USE TAGS
A common place in manga and webtoon are ‘lost’ dialogue balloons associated to no one. They’re upsetting and make reading difficult. So, to avoid your reader getting lost, make dialogue as clean as possible. Andrea Camilleri won’t as much as use identification tags to name the person speaking but, in exchange, he would write dialogues of only two speakers alternatively speaking.
Unlike what happens in a meeting room filled with people. Here, we need the tags and those have to be as invisible as spider cobs are to flies. Reason why not to say: ‘her voice fell like a leaf on the woods’ and that’s the second convention I’ve broken. And I remind you, I never been published and I just write nonsense.
TO BE CONTINUED
Redonditas bolitas negritas,
En el alféizar.
¿Dónde está el gato?
En la cama.
El culpable inclinando una rama.
Menudo de tripita con muchas patitas.
Y no es uno,
Son muchos...
Muchas.
Que traerán sus espejos y huevos después de soñar.
Si vous dites aux grandes personnes : « J’ai vu une belle maison en briques roses, avec des géraniums aux fenêtres et des colombes sur le toit…» elles ne parviennent pas à s’imaginer cette maison. Il faut leur dire : « J’ai vu une maison de cent mille francs. » Alors elles s’écrient : « Comme c’est joli ! »
Le petit prince, chapître IV. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
SHORT STORY
— We’re stuck here— he said, turning off the car.
— Without signal to call a toll, to top — she said, popping the pink gum bubble. A far thunder pointed out the rain would go on.
UNIMPORTANT INTRODUCTION
In English it isn’t as important to mark the she said, he said; though I wonder how sometimes people can’t get lost in dialogues the way I do.
Were this Spanish I would be making the conjugation joke before telling you this is an entry about dialogue from the 90 days on how to write your novel by Sarah Domet. Peppered with digestive enzymes and in the order I deemed important.
START WITH A DESCRIPTION OF PEOPLE TALKING instead of starting with a dialogue.
Auch. I’ve done exactly so. Sometimes, we visual people, and by visual I mean those who can or have the ability to use the eyes to perceive; we forget about the rest of the senses. We want everything there’s to be seen and we want it now. In spite of the advice for using phrase as: «she could lift the suitcase without a care it was heavy» to mark someone as strong or sturdy; most writers simply go for the description. Particularly those whose audiences depend heavily on covers and TV live adaptations.
Anyways, Sarah Domet says ‘avoid’, which means it is a general advice, not a strong rule. And rules are to be broken… Once you know how things work. Nonetheless, I think we can make use of our other senses as well to feel the jagged and irregular metal of a statue welded all over and exposed to the rain. It is possible to write audio books targeted to blind people. Books that might end being listened to by me too since I like listening to stories while I sew.
TO BE CONTINUED
Under the bucket,
Pink thready meat of sorts.
Survivors of the cats and dogs it rained.
Without a place to go,
Anywhere to happily hole.
Por otra parte, la psicología, en sus poemas, es muy rudimentaria; los héroes de quienes hablan tienen algo de simplistas y se hallan casi siempre desprovistos de individualidad. Las intrigas y las peripecias están narradas en un estilo convencional y estereotipado.
La historia empieza en Sumer. Samuel Noah Kramer