Categoría: How to write fiction
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About rewards in fiction: lemon pay components to enchant readers
Fiction is like that. Like lemon pay. It gives you two rewards by reading it: purpose and satisfaction. And to analyze this particular aspect of fiction I’ll start by placing the crust by grinding the «biscuits» of knowledge. PAY CRUSTThe sun shines and the catherpes mexicanus in the garage, laughs with its peculiar call. I…
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The synesthesic writer (or about Kiki and Buba)
You might have already used this ability of your brain as a writer. No? There’s this rhetorical device or figure of speech where one sense is described in terms of another…
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Review and survive the urge to destroy (your fiction masterpiece) 2
a) Believe in yourself enough to think the child deserves delivery. It needs a big ego but you need to believe in your craft or no one will
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Review and survive the urge to destroy (your fiction masterpiece)
Something important: once you figure out how to write a book, it is granted the next one doesn’t come out any easier.
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How to write a fiction masterpiece… in theory 3
And now they tell me? Asimov hated writing fiction cause it took him 6 months, something that didn’t happen to him with not fiction and certainly not with short stories (he wrote them in a single day)… Why? Cause novels require a bit more to unravel and they change to characters’ actions. And sometimes, characters…
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How to write a fiction masterpiece… in theory 2
It is awfully tiring to read aloud, long and poorly punctuated sentences that don’t flow at all. Plus the difficulty of changing voices, accents (most authors don’t but you might feel a bit of seiyuu) and to top it, get perfectly stuttering and stop and go silences. Think your throat will pay the price of…
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How to write a fiction masterpiece… in theory
When writing, we need to think the capabilities and weaknesses of our media. In movies we expect movement and action not a voice in off telling us what’s happening. In a novel it is all right to have thoughts and more thoughts despite us needing conflict. A comic can have both. McKee says a boring…
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Get ready to write fiction 2
Start with known stuff: anything that comes as known and takes part in the contents of our safe box of a skull is what you know and should write about.
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Get ready to write fiction
The decision of format is not just a decision. It is a summation of chained elements. And how could you get an idea of any kind when you shall use the third or the fourth, perfectly reflected upon?