How to write fiction
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How to write a fiction masterpiece… in theory 3
And now they tell me? Asimov hated writing fiction cause it took him 6 months, something that didn't happen to him with not fiction and certainly not with short stories (he wrote them in a single day)... Why? Cause novels require a bit more to unravel and they change to characters' actions. And sometimes, characters do things that make you go crazy. Fighting!
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How to write a fiction masterpiece… in theory 2
It is awfully tiring to read aloud, long and poorly punctuated sentences that don't flow at all. Plus the difficulty of changing voices, accents (most authors don't but you might feel a bit of seiyuu) and to top it, get perfectly stuttering and stop and go silences. Think your throat will pay the price of you become successful!
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How to write a fiction masterpiece… in theory
When writing, we need to think the capabilities and weaknesses of our media. In movies we expect movement and action not a voice in off telling us what's happening. In a novel it is all right to have thoughts and more thoughts despite us needing conflict. A comic can have both. McKee says a boring book is one with a lot of explaining...
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Get ready to write fiction 3
A good writer is also a good reader and very observant
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Get ready to write fiction 2
Start with known stuff: anything that comes as known and takes part in the contents of our safe box of a skull is what you know and should write about.
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Get ready to write fiction
The decision of format is not just a decision. It is a summation of chained elements. And how could you get an idea of any kind when you shall use the third or the fourth, perfectly reflected upon?
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How to write fiction: understanding the basic mistakes (more mistakes)
WHO HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING, HAS NEVER MADE MISTAKES. We are to make mistakes, even with the mistakes we shall not make if we're to get better at all.
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How to write fiction: understanding the basic mistakes
Wodehouse in A damsel in distress remounts how the modern reader has no time for the author to dissert about this and that and it is paramount to start as soon as possible. Which is kind of a beginning quite dissimilar to those he recommends since; we have learnt nothing about any character or conflict yet. Nonetheless, it is. It makes us wonder: what’s next? And such is the mineral vein or the gold nugget. To create anticipation is good to have people wanting to get wet and go get themselves in mud to screen the gold out.
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How to write fiction: imagenless guide
On the other side, how many times have we rejected a story we couldn’t deem ”believable”? As something THAT doesn’t work as real within its frame. A story is a game. A game inside which we believe what the author says.
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How to write fiction: imagenless guide
Summarising, we have two completely different things: reality and fiction. Which are, in fact, not as different as Hilary Mantel (historical novel writer) would say. After all, History is written by historians. And historians have their own likes and dislikes, interests and disinterests.
