How to write fiction
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Screenwriting Fundamentals (by Blake Snyder, now left in low fire, notes by me) p4
We’re in three. The innocent snowball from the beginning must fall on is at a speed we can't or not want to help watching. EVEN IF WE KNOW WHAT'S COMING ON. There are opening images, there have to be ending images. Hence fore the ruling idea has been fulfilled and that has to be shown. Or we have to show that it has been fulfilled with a twist.
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Screenwriting Fundamentals (by Blake Snyder, now with salty notes by me) p3
Our character is enjoying or disenjoying life the way we humans do. And since life is something as riding a plane... It is kinda safe but there's always the perk of fail and crash thus our job, as writers, is to push our character and get them off their life plane without a parachute. It is time for the character to do or to do. Snyder affrms this has to happen in page 25. And in page 25 only.
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Screenwriting Fundamentals (by Blake Snyder, peppered with nonsensical notes by me) p1
The advice is for screenwriting. Nonetheless, some of the stuff might apply to comics, novels and plays. If understanding the strengths of other media helps you to better your own game. The opening image will set the tone. This is convenient to avoid or to use clichés to OUR ADVANTAGE. This opening image is the reader's cue to stay or leave. Both are worthy. Comic, short novels and movies need this as soon as possible. A novel, unlike what Mr. Wodehouse states in A damsel in distress, can take a little longer but it still uses the opening image because it is not the same thing setting the ambiance as…
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How comes everybody writes interesting personal plots?
There are some endearing hominid animals. They like thinking they're specialThey begin their mornings trying to convince themselves, TODAY is the day. Today, something GREAT is bound to happen. We look back at the past, and assign value to memories to explain why and where we stand. We use any memorable happening to make sense and and give meaning to our being.
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Light your writing fire with anger
Raw feelings are the best possible fuel. What are you feeling? A major belly crush down? Your jaws go cemented together? Are you spewing and spitting bad words left and right (perhaps only in your brain cause you're a proper decent citizen)? Do you feel like using someone's head to mop the floor?
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Why never trash any ideas for writing!
Patricia Highsmith wrote that some ideas aren't worth a long piece but they can entertain you through ten pages length — perhaps a blog entry a little shorter but cuter than many (wink).
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Velvet true p1
First posted December 23rd, 2020Translated 2023 As I told you before, this is the previous version to that Roots you have (or not) been tearing apart as the ugly tale it is. This one is by far much better. I can tell. Because I can’t make it better by translating. Maybe I can’t write great novels but I’m sure I can at least write this entertaining pieces. Enjoy it (or not) by Merriam. Velvet true p1 of 2 Drop, drop.In silk and fog,From putrid flesh,Pure beauty is given birth to. There’s one. Then a new drop. Plop, plop, plop. Red and thick and sweet. The plastic tub in masonry red…
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ROOTS 3
Published in this blog December 19th, 2020Translated September 2023 Continuation and part 3 of 3. Tear it apart. ROOTS 3 —Those… I haven’t been able to reproduce them. There’s only one seller… — Actually the words I’m about to say might not be the same thought by the «parakeet» nose, though the feeling is the feeling one gets when thinking such things. «Fuc#$&_ bitch».The cup went resting upon its plate and the hand that has done the action goes to the healthy snack on a bowl on the table. It takes a strawberry. —Maybe you can introduce us… I’d like to support their art…—Hihi— the hand of the other nose,…
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Roots
The female plumber goes there. Is she the one bleeding to death?
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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.



