Categoría: How to write fiction
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Oró, ‘Sé do Bheatha ‘Bhaile”
This is the result of a writing exercise I found in internet. Unfortunately, I can’t give credit to the author of the exercise. I don’t remember neither the name of the author nor the name of the website and it’s clearly more difficult to find something out of the advertisement displayed by Voogle when searching…
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On how to read: Is it fake? Elvis isn’t dead? Is X turning into a payment app?
Verifiable and trustworthy things can be tracked into a source. If it is exciting or outrageous… Beware. Think who is making a profit out of the idea and double check. Look at the URL.
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Crisis, crisis…total crisis (more about the crisis and not about transition)
Crisis scenes must be easy to understand. Nothing sophisticated or complicated. Explicit. And by explicit I don’t mean 19 rated. I mean, easy to get.
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Crisis, crisis…total crisis. The crisis of transition
Transitions don’t happen only in the movies. They can be used in comics, novels and short stories as well. They’re related to the crisis experienced by the characters and portray every little decision they take and that lead to the consequences. Building up the small snow ball to destroy town in the future climax. They…
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Learn to code for writing? Loving the problems?
Do you hate having troubles? Then you’re not where you should. Living is a problem. Writing scripts has problems. A novel is a dragon size problem. Short stories are modest problems then? Not if you’ve been lucky enough to read Borges, Monterroso or Bradbury.
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Learn to code to write? p1
We choose how and then pay attention to the obstacles and bumpers to step on the brakes if circumstances need an U turn or we go and park to rumminate the path.
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…