How to write fiction
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Storytelling to have them wrapped around your finger p3
Nuval Yoah Harari says the most difficult thing of life is to reckon life has been in vain. Legs and sight lost to war in vain. Time wasted to gain a new car in vain. So the plot. We need purpose. A meaning. For sure what's to come has to be better. And Mark Mason talks of the same stuff. We know hope because we can't live without it. Within that without, is that we can sell things.
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Storytelling to have them wrapped around your finger p2
The webinarist explains that the trials and tribulations and meetings (the first encounters with the minions or the companions) that have solved the problem, act like a "proof" in the sense of "witnessing". Thus, the audience witness the way the product solves the problem. This sounds a lot like showing, not telling. Because we won't tell the audience what the problem is.
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Storytelling to have them wrapped around your finger p1
We need to get to the moment when the production or service saved us from an everyday need but we still have to start somewhere.
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Is love plot a fairy tale? 2nd wing
Don’t misunderstand. One ain’t more valuable or important than the other. They’re simply different. Knowing it is the key to know what we’re to write. We can’t satisfy if we don’t know which to use. Feeling is heavy and will miserably sink a light easygoing piece to lift up spirits. Sentimentality will vanish overnight in a “master piece of world Literature”. What is it that you write? The first requires the reader to do your job and mastery to get them to do it. The second, to guide the reader. Neither requires less work than the other.
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Is love plot a fairy tale? 1st wing
To begin with, a common relatable name. Mary, Rick, Enrique, Fernanda, Malik or Fatima or Woojin and Hye Na; meet at school, the job, at the street, taking a taxi, a weeding. Anyplace we have been at least once
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Is love a walk in the park? Km2
So, in romance the how is much more important than the ending itself. WE ALREADY KNOW WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN.
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In a yellow submarine: the text and subtext in narrative
This is subtext. Situation says more than a thousand words. It seems trivial but it makes the difference between bad jobs and good jobs. Perhaps not masterpieces but very passable ones. An underground emotional loaded situation to be told through its development has subtext.
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A single reason why to teach readers to read
At least in Spanish, some editions of his first Disc World books have markers which kindly indicate when he went to the other side of the Disc to learn the anthropomorphic Dead's secrets instead of following lead in the main plot.
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Es solo una historia…
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Why do we like black horse plots? p. 2
Us in a clear disadvantage. The Slumdog millionaire smeared in excrement. In a worse place than us. Yet us, some minute of our lives