How to write fiction
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Poemoji?
Those are poemojis by Dante Tercero. WHY THIS ENTRY AND WHAT POEMOJIS ARE? That day, that day was Friday and I had a guest from Zacatecas, A book keeper called Lourdes who loves writing and who also has done a bit of poemojing. Which, as you can see, is a sort of graphic poetry done using emojis. It was started by a young transgender writer called Dante Tercero; who was granted a National Trust for Fine arts and Culture (we in Mexico used to know it as FONCA) scholarship in 2016, given to creative young people. Such a project, published by the publishing house Tiempo que resta, was warmly received by… the…
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Why are comics and poems alike 7: closure
If you take a look at a circle missing a little bit of the whole perimeter line, your brain will do the rest and you will perceive the shape as a full circle. Whether there is no circle in a way that is called closure in Gestalt and might not be related to the usual closure talked about in Literature circles. This idea of closure brings up symbolic relationships used by the images of the poem that most of us know as metaphor and metonymies. This last one as in the one where the reader does the closure job and is very similar to “the part for the whole”
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Why are comics and poems alike 7: closure p2
If you take a look at a circle missing a little bit of the whole perimeter line, your brain will do the rest and you will perceive the shape as a full circle. Whether there is no circle in a way that is called closure in Gestalt and might not be related to the usual closure talked about in Literature circles. This idea of closure brings up symbolic relationships used by the images of the poem that most of us know as metaphor and metonymies. This last one as in the one where the reader does the closure job and is very similar to “the part for the whole”
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Why are comics and poems alike 6: are really metrics and comics compatible? p2
Metrics are not compatible to vignettes, Metrics deal with sound units and the vignettes are image units. Plus, there are no clear conventions about the number of vignettes or chomas used on page; like there used to be about poems. A beat is not centered in the how it happens but in the what and; seemingly, it is a way to subdivide a story de same way an outline divides into chapters and scenes. As such, beats explain how to subdivide things into scenes but nothing about measuring thus beats are not what integrates metrics into comics. Measuring, outside the number of pages, seems incompatible to comic. Comics, though some…
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Why are comics and poems alike 6: are really metrics and comics compatible? p1
Metrics are not compatible to vignettes, Metrics deal with sound units and the vignettes are image units. Plus, there are no clear conventions about the number of vignettes or chomas used on page; like there used to be about poems. A beat is not centered in the how it happens but in the what and; seemingly, it is a way to subdivide a story de same way an outline divides into chapters and scenes. As such, beats explain how to subdivide things into scenes but nothing about measuring thus beats are not what integrates metrics into comics. Measuring, outside the number of pages, seems incompatible to comic. Comics, though some…
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Keep it simple, says a historian
That day’s entry I was taking a break…More like procrastinating comparing comics and poems. At the moment I had the not so suitable suspicion you can make anything similar to anything if you dig enough as many funny ideas do. Or maybe it was just a cynical and disagreeable thought raising its venomous head to make me feel discouraged. As of anything, today is a quote. Yes, I began to quote very early since writing is something you can pretend that needs a lot being said but, in fact, only needs the stupid order of… writing. TIM FERRIS INTERVIEW TO NUVAL YOAH HARARI This is good advice about teaching. And teaching is…
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Why are comics and poems alike 5: metrics p4
If we look at the following definition: “the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line” we can easily conclude that poems and comics are nothing alike in a matter of measure. Particularly since poems are measured in syllables. The syllable is one sound represented by a combo of consonants and vowels that can be counted within the basic unit of a poem called a line (or the more common in Spanish, verse). A bunch of lines make up a stanza (more commonly in Spanish a strophe). English and Spanish count in different ways and give the poems different names based…
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Why are comics and poems alike 5: metrics p3
If we look at the following definition: “the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line” we can easily conclude that poems and comics are nothing alike in a matter of measure. Particularly since poems are measured in syllables. The syllable is one sound represented by a combo of consonants and vowels that can be counted within the basic unit of a poem called a line (or the more common in Spanish, verse). A bunch of lines make up a stanza (more commonly in Spanish a strophe). English and Spanish count in different ways and give the poems different names based…
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Why are comics and poems alike 5: metrics p2
If we look at the following definition: “the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line” we can easily conclude that poems and comics are nothing alike in a matter of measure. Particularly since poems are measured in syllables. The syllable is one sound represented by a combo of consonants and vowels that can be counted within the basic unit of a poem called a line (or the more common in Spanish, verse). A bunch of lines make up a stanza (more commonly in Spanish a strophe). English and Spanish count in different ways and give the poems different names based…
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Why are comics and poems alike 5: metrics p1
If we look at the following definition: “the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line” we can easily conclude that poems and comics are nothing alike in a matter of measure. Particularly since poems are measured in syllables. The syllable is one sound represented by a combo of consonants and vowels that can be counted within the basic unit of a poem called a line (or the more common in Spanish, verse). A bunch of lines make up a stanza (more commonly in Spanish a strophe). English and Spanish count in different ways and give the poems different names based…
