How to write fiction
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How to write fiction, 10 ideas to unclogg the temporal writer’s block
GO GET YOURSELF A COFFEE/TEA/COCOA MUG. Cathy Birch says it is better to have wathever you might need hand reach and never waste time looking them up. However… if you’re already wasting time watching the blank of space, why not to give your brain a break?
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How to write fiction without explaining…or maybe explaining
The more experienced you’re, the less you’ll have to explain anything cause you start to understand how to work out “SHOWING”. Showing is more taxing than explaining. Nonetheless, explaining also requires a certain level of ability. Not everyone can explain things in a comprehensible way. There are those whom being masters in Chemistry, have no idea how to explain why is it that water is a vital liquid. Which is why if you’re barely starting, you might have to explain.
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How to write fiction reading or watching news
Journalists need to use their imagination most of the time. The same way authors NEED TO EXERCISE THEIR IMAGINATION DAILY AND NOT JUST TO RECREATE. ALSO TO REMEMBER.
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5 reasons to write fiction learning a new language
People write in English by reading to authors who write in English whilst people write in Spanish reading to people who write in Spanish. The same in French, Russian, Vietnamese.. Missing on the opportunity to read great books the way they were constructed around in their own languages. You can’t really notice how a plot works, unless you read the thing in the original language. Wodehouse will never work in Spanish. Truly.
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How to write fiction telling half truths or lying better
To lie is to write fiction? Yes. And this only from a certain point of view (since looked at in a certain way it is lying). You will lie along the day…or better said: along your story. Your mission, were you to take it, is TO HAVE US BELIEVE. It comes with the craft and takes imagination as a requirement. It takes to tell the reader there’s a cow eating their rhododendrons (in spite of no cow or flowers being there) and have them to believe so.
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How to write fiction making up questions to help yourself to create characters
Seker would have a Lambourghini (his circumstances in the story wouldn’t allow him to possess nothing as a fact)… Unfortunately, I’m zero car oriented thus to name a brand was (at the moment) quite eloquent. The idea comes from the fact that Sue Grafton describes a lot Kinsey Millhone’s car. It ain’t bullshit the idea is Instagramable since there are a lot of people who like cars and car’s photos are very attractive.
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How to write fiction using drugs (namely addictive characters)
“Begin with an individual and you find that you have created a type, begin with a type and you find that you have created—nothing.” Scott F. Fitzgerald
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How to plan your fictional character in 6 steps
Without regard to how much you plan on filtering to the reader; you need to know: height, weight, zodiac, favourite subject, favourite food, bathroom breaks’ schedule. I mean, they physical and emotional being. What do they want from life? To conquer the world every night? Live in Mars? To eat ramen in Japan? What??!!
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How to write fiction taking advantage of genre
To Robert McKee, one should choose a genre and believe on it, stubbornly . Why? Cause the correct genre helps TO STABLISH THE RIGHT EXPECTATIONS. The reader/audience knows what to expect and where to expect it. A bad choice of genre is like go buying Playboy and open the magazine to read religious stories… besides the naked models.
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How to write fiction plagiarizing Historical moments
To know History is part of the research to ambient our…narrative Frankenstein and plagiarize unpunished. No one will complain cause you have stolen the idea of a group of people stabbing the new tyrant on the back…Or will call you mediocre for creating someone Cleopatra like.



