Categoría: How to write fiction
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Storytelling to have them wrapped around your finger p2
The webinarist explains that the trials and tribulations and meetings (the first encounters with the minions or the companions) that have solved the problem, act like a «proof» in the sense of «witnessing». Thus, the audience witness the way the product solves the problem. This sounds a lot like showing, not telling. Because we won’t…
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Storytelling to have them wrapped around your finger p1
We need to get to the moment when the production or service saved us from an everyday need but we still have to start somewhere.
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Is love plot a fairy tale? 2nd wing
Don’t misunderstand. One ain’t more valuable or important than the other. They’re simply different. Knowing it is the key to know what we’re to write. We can’t satisfy if we don’t know which to use. Feeling is heavy and will miserably sink a light easygoing piece to lift up spirits. Sentimentality will vanish overnight in…
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Is love plot a fairy tale? 1st wing
To begin with, a common relatable name. Mary, Rick, Enrique, Fernanda, Malik or Fatima or Woojin and Hye Na; meet at school, the job, at the street, taking a taxi, a weeding. Anyplace we have been at least once