Categoría: How to write fiction
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Merriam warning about talking to writers
The following is intended as a joke, tough, there is no way to know for sure what the brain of a writer processes from conversations.
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How to write fiction writing scenes
Did you get anything from all this defining?! Not even older (as in experienced) writers can define it. But it seems so worthy, it seems there can’t be plot without scenes.
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How to write fiction in a nutcasing clasification of the scene (in two stone throws)
Everything coming through her head is an interaction game between these tiny characters. So, at least for the case, the external scenes show Yumi as an entity who displays what happens outside, either on her own or with other characters.
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How to write fiction without naming feelings: conceal don’t feel
Livia, fascinated by that clear calm night, wanted to wait for the post ship to be in open sea to leave” A resource that’s not exhausted in Livia. From time to time, Montalbano neighs happily. And the feeling is named and visible through the feeling itself. From this fragment we get something out, the rule…
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Unbelievable or how to write disregarding some readers’ comments
Why to read a webtoon where the main characters (both FL and ML) are perfect (take out the almost because they really have no flaws) if you can take yourself as you are? The mere excitement of action? To know the origen or result of a lab modification? To admire the idealized beauty of these…
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How to write fiction with a strong faith (in yourself)
Believe in what you’re writing. Believe in it enough for you to finish whatever it is that you’re writing. So you won’t abandon it “because it is pure shit”.
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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…