How to write fiction
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One, two, three. How to write fiction counting up to three. Three is a magic number
Twice can fail a hero. Third, the fail becomes comedy (or our epic doom since readers are gone, fed up of failures) or a magnificent plot if the’re successful. Three is the number of fairy tales according to Joseph Cambpell, the writer of The thousand faces of the hero.
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How to write fiction in a quest for change
Summarising, the quest plot throws the main character into a quest for an object or person; taking us to a wonderful journey (either physical or imaginary) to get it. The character changes in the endeavour of getting (maybe not getting) what he is questing for. I mean, he learns out of the world and themselves.
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How to write fiction being yourself
It is to accept what comes from inside. Because it is oneself and you can’t escape it.
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The first manual in writing fiction that isn’t about writing fiction but about human myths: The hero with a thousand faces
It establishes a relationship myth (story) to the psychological need of the three most life passage ceremonies there are: birth, initiation to adulthood and dead. Which explains why Harry Potter is as popular. It is a hero that goes through all them (the last implies Voldemorth and his own death so he can be reborn into a normal human being again) thanks to parental love. This reality is taken into account in videogame design and other stories to get our empathy.
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How to write fiction creating 4 chasms between what’s wished for and the results
Our experience (reader) against what the writer can do to enrich such experience with something different to a cliché.
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How to get rejected by any editor and 3 proposed chamomile tea ideas to avoid so
Your success is tied to the success of the editor. Hence, the editor NEEDS that you analyze and know inside-out the characteristics and benefits of the product (your book). In consequence, part of your job is to bring in buyers by having and maintaining selling vantage points as a blog, twitter, FB or IG with as many followers as you can bring in.
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How to get rejected by any editor
A book proposal is judged mainly in the amount of work, the editor needs to add to his already sardine canned agenda.
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How to write fiction playing Scrabble
2. You can play it “open dictionary” mode (hontoni honto). This is included in the rules if you’re so kind to check it. It is ideal to be used with children and learn words together. It is better than school readings… I have seen them. Some are more boring than the Newspaper.
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How to write fiction learning something new
It might not eliminate the need to research when needed but learning something new, orbits you towards topics you really feel like including in your writing. So…Why not to have fun in the process? Remember, you’re already giving up a bunch of stuff by being a writer/drawer.
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How to write fiction with a naturalist’s lifestyle
Gerry Durrell said a naturalist —what minute did naturalists became biologists the Charles Linnaeus of the world? — never gets bored. Some of reason he had.
