Categoría: How to write fiction
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Are you totally lost about what to write about?
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it. Nor do they go about their business feeling dewy and thrilled. BIRD BY BIRD. Anne Lamott Are you feeling lost today? Me too. And I bet we’re not alone. Let’s do what we can until we know. Pasto kalo.
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Do you consider narrative outside History?
The disconnected air exhibited by Eisenstein’s account is not accidental. In her work, printing itself stands outside history. The press is something «sui generis,» we are told, lying beyond the reach of conventional historical analysis. Its «culture» is correspondingly placeless and timeless. THE NATURE OF THE BOOK. Print and Knowledge in the making. ADRIAN JOHNS. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS.…
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Since it is impossible to adapt it to reality, is it imperfect?
Let us take first the «fit» between words and reality. This is imperfect because our knowledge of the world is itself imperfect. This is true in an obvious sense of the statements of flat-earthers or devotees of other delusions, but it is also true in a more interesting way. Humanity’s most impressive attempt to dispel…
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Is your fiction austere simplicity?
El contenido destaca la figura de Tycho de Eisenstein y Latour como un símbolo de orden en el conocimiento, cuestionando su credibilidad. También se reflexiona sobre la naturaleza de la ficción, sugiriendo que es más sencilla que la realidad, que está plagada de contradicciones, lo que genera inseguridad en el conocimiento.
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The horrible part of it
But I try to make sure they understand that writing, and even getting good at it, and having books and stories and articles published, will not open the doors that most of them hope for. It will not make them well. It will not give them the feeling that the world has finally validated their…
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A desperate business
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.…
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No GPS
«writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.» E. L. Doctorow. Quote found in Bird by bird. Anne Lamott Ahem. I need the ending. That’s like my GPS. True the bloody device urges to make U turns in forbidden places…
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Invisible?
The Hero’s Journey is a skeletal framework that should be fleshed out with the details and surprises of the individual story. The structure should not call attention to itself, nor should it be followed too precisely. THE WRITER’S JOURNEY ~ THIRD EDITION. Christopher Vogler. Published by Michael Wiese Productions …. The problem of using a recipe…
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Archetypes and again, the collective unconscious
The repeating characters of world myth such as the young hero, the wise old man or woman, the shapeshifter, and the shadowy antagonist are the same as the figures who appear repeatedly in our dreams and fantasies. That’s why myths and most stories constructed on the mythological model have the ring of psychological truth. THE…