Categoría: How to write fiction
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Why to create adorable despicability? p2
Hence, how do we have our characters to be apart and different? In BL that’s easy. One of them is hetero and homophobic. Or the other is simply unaware due to being a narcissistic wrench; love here is not to turn hate into passion but total indifference into lust. And lust is easier to get…
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Why to create adorable despicability? p1
Have you ever found yourself romping over the villain’s evilness? Without the despicable one, we have no interest. This thing of antagonistic forces pushed to the limit, raises tension. It’s the corn starch to give body to the plot gravy. Robert McKee mentions to face main character against his opposing antonym. The double negative of…
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What is red, relishing and terrible? Our Lady’s Child p2
The Virgin Mary came back from her journey. She called the girl before her, and asked to have the keys of heaven back. “Hast thou not opened the thirteenth door also?” “No,” she replied. She perceived the finger which had become golden from touching the fire of heaven, and saw well that the child had…
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What is red, relishing and terrible? Our Lady’s Child p1
By a great forest dwelt a wood-cutter with his wife and an only child. One morning there stood before him the Virgin Mary, She took her up to heaven with her. When she was fourteen years of age, the Virgin Mary called her one day and said, “Dear child, I am about to make a…
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What is terrible, red and relishing?: plot and temptation p1
Either the character resists or succumbs to temptation. Maybe we can make up a second plot called Redemption out of succumbing to it. Conscious there, the Erinyes come and torment us with their whips.
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Up to chapter 15: Why to discuss firsthand the obvious fact?
Such a basic obvious fact needs to be discussed in order for us to notice and not waste our time following tips or ideas just to discover later, we’re not aware of the media’s strengths and weaknesses. You don’t write a movie the same way you write a novel despite it being quite difficult not…
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What’s adaptation?
In these lectures I’ve argued that fiction, if well written, doesn’t betray history, but opens up its essential nature to inspection. When fiction is turned into theatre, or into a film or TV, the same applies: there is no necessary treason. Each way of telling, each medium for telling, draws a different potential from the…
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When we lack one of the following three p2
Talent requires hard work. Beauty takes a lot of hard work plus luck. No one can be pretty just going to the gym or applying expensive facial treatments. Worst, wealth is something that needs luck and an acute sense of business. It is probable none of us, poor mortals, get to experience at least one.…