How to write fiction
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Exophony p1
REQUIREMENTS Have you ever been to the requirements of a scanlation team? Ah, scanation means to scan and translate. Which is theoretically illegal but very much needed when some manga title is not making it up to any of the markets in which one can actually read and understand… Thus. Nothing important but: NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS. Something anyone who has opened a dictionary or had to study (hard) to learn grammar and pass a bloody level exam; could really wonder if it helps. In lieu of their spelling mistakes, grammar errors and… word misuse. THEY MUST WENT TO THE PARK[1] Kill me. A “diva” [modal verb] followed by a participle[2]……
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The imminent danger of metaphor p3
Sometimes on Sunday
Can imagination lead us to write nonsense?
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What’s poetry?
Such is poetry, ineffable but something we know upon sight or hearing. A bundle of words [I know…stanzas]. Something idiotic. Something sublime.
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Bad idea number 2: how to write using bad ideas
THE TRUTH It is more difficult to stare at the blank paper and try to fill it with something, anything; than criticizing. I wonder how many people would just shut up if they tried to write or just draw over. And drawing is not as difficult as we are made to believe. It just takes longer than anything if you don’t do it daily. THE HARSH TRUTH You can never know if your work will be picked up. Alexandria’s library catalogue was made by someone. How many books were lost forever because they didn’t make up the chap doing the catalogue’s taste? Worst, you can never know if it might…
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Bad idea number one: how to write using bad ideas
LINKEDIN AND TED Once upon a time I used to have a LinkedIn[1] account with my penname until policies said my avatar was not mine and wasn’t me. It obviously wasn’t me. For good reasons I won’t tell here. Amd since that comment was a complete distraction from business, let’s jump out into the important stuff. The original entry is a translation. Given the fact that in Wednesdays I post translating myself into English, I think the honest thing is leaving you with the reference and the link. …Aha, the following I found in LinkedIn’s TED posts and it is an extract from the book The Practice: Shipping Creative Work…
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Why do we like black horse plots? p. 2
Is love a walk in the park? Km2
How to write fiction writing scenes
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How a cliché telltales where you’re from (or what you have read)
HOW CLICHÉS ARE A NATIONAL ISSUE I’m pregnant. He is your father. I’m getting married to her. Who can save us now? The Caucasian main characters. The billionaire and the poor girl (universal motif?). To betray family for love. The traditional single mom’s family. Can you recognize these clichés? You have watched Mexican movies and tevenovelas. Argentinian clichés verse about immigrants’ arrival by vessel, how things were already fucked up and how the previous worker used to do that job… Ways to give more tasks to the office’s newbie. Peruvians love stories about the oppressed turning tables on the oppressed. In India,the names Anjali-Rahul go hand by hand. NEW YORK IS AMERICA…
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Is it the same the one who writes to the “writing person”?
ABOUT PEOPLE WHO WRITE A just anyone writer can wear turtle necks, listen only to classical music or be inspired by music… Place their tongue in whatever pleasure (metaphorically speaking) in front of the allotted word painting time… A normal kindergarten teacher coming home gets dinner heated in the microwave, takes her phone and gets every single character in her erotic novel nude and in acrobatic positions in bed. A PERSONA, A GENRE? We must reckon we have a “persona” or avatar for every single space in which we need to maintain a mood. If you work in an office, you already know what I’m talking about (“Dead to boss”…
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Wanting Ze (non serious yet short manual on how to write fiction application)
TWO VERSIONS For demonstration purposes, and let me say this wasn’t the best tale I’ve written; I’m going to do the storytelling as if I were answering questions (or the bullets proposed to solve story creation from the last entry) and a second version; describing what’s happening. IN CASE YOU DON’T REMEMBER OR DIDN’T READ THE AFOREMENTIONED ENTRY SINCE YOU LANDED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS NONSENSE BLOG To create a story we need WANTED ZE. Sketch idea ZE is a female mosquito. She flies over a grassy field and her radar detects a very attractive (from her point of view) human. They smell like CO2. She buzzes, excited. She goes…
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A nothing serious however really short manual to fiction writing
This a somehow explained by me, in a really short way, what I read in Take off your pants by Libbie Hawker. Warning: I didn’t read it complete so if you might, please do. THE TALE’S CORE MY CHARACTER Someone simple. A mosquito. And since mosquitoes go zzzz, she is going to be Ze. WHAT DOES ZE WANTS? Blood! WHAT IS HELPING ZE FROM GETTING BLOOD? Mosquito repellents aren’t as effective as one would think. Thick plastic rain proved coats are along thick clothing. Let’s say this a commercial and Buzzing mosquito repellent is really good. HOW IS ZE OVERCOMING THE PROBLEM? Before I even answer, a short mosquito research…
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How to write fiction: imagenless guide
Is language to become the immortal Mumra?
Grammar or no grammar? p1
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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”
