Autor: Merriam A. Grain
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¡Mise en abyme! ¿Texto espejo?
Un mise en abyme o mise en abîme significa puesta en abismo (construcción en abismo o abismación también como referencias) , en francés y es como tener un juego de Matrioskas donde hay una trama secundaria igualita a la trama principal, metida dentro de la trama principal de manera que aquello termina siendo como un…
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Inner torn
This is the result exercise from an exercise proposed in the 90 days to your novel by Sarah Domet. It is a description of the insides of my handbag. Hopefully it won’t make you despair [anyways I’m unable to write the many many words other writers do]. Ah, I’ll update the original [in Spanish obv].…
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Writing sets it in stone…
Stone, clay, wood, paper.No expression, No accent.Through the eyes of the reader.And their biases and substances.Maybe not in malice.Sometimes in all evil. Clauses are,Loose or tight,To convenience and lenience;Read by contract and do service. What do we know of the reading?Was it a language like English?That can’t be read as written.Was the time in it,…
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Why to start with the ending? [when writing] p2
BLOCKED PATH Some paths get blocked once you know the outcome. Although it is true you can never know what is happening in reality, the principle of impossible omniscience that helps us from knowing the real reality; and that the thoughts of alive people is almost impossible to know, the least if they’re dead; some…
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Fare-thee-well
Tsss.Desperation.Rest.Tsss.Desperation.Rest.Tsss tsss.The glue won’t let you go away.Six legs on it.Tsss.The struggles dies.The buzzing quiets.
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Cuentos de viejas
Miró a su alrededor con gesto culpable desde el refugio que le ofrecía el ala del sombrero, por si alguien se había dado cuenta de que se había dormido. Dormitar durante el día era algo que sólo hacían las ancianas, y Yaya Ceravieja sólo era una anciana cuando convenía a sus propósitos. Brujas de viaje.…
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Why to start with the ending? [when writing] p1
My sometimes endeared and sometimes hated, Isaac Asimov, plus Robert McKee agree in one thing. To write backwards. Which means… START WITH THE ENDING For Asimov, writing the ending was logic. The same way it is for McKee to solve the main character’s crisis before we write the rest of the story in order for…