How to write fiction
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How to write fiction stealing time from life
Tenet? No, this ain’t such a plot. It is something like a said about Argentinians: “sencillito y carismático[1]. Because when one writes, earthquakes come and happen…. I mean, things come unannounced. Life throws anything that can be thrown your way. Laziness included. To Cathy Birch, author of “The creative writer’s workbook” says that all of a sudden; doing the laundry, reviewing your twits, reading webtoon, going to May’s party or leveling up Manor Matters[2] becomes even more attractive or relevant than getting seated and write. Plus, real jobs[3]. Then writing or designing goes to forth or fifth place. We just don’t have this inner drive to stare at white…
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How to write fiction scared and being stubborn
Fear is out there for everybody. After a number of contests, rejections and self-publishing without sales. Remember: Harry Potter was rejected 20 times and even then, that first edition went to libraries to be read…
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Crisis, crisis…total crisis (more about the crisis and not about transition)
Exophony p1
Poemoji?
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How to write fiction, 7 reasons why to plagiarize opera
Or the opposite. How to write operas plagiarizing fiction[1]… Do you believe the opera is something old fashioned? Is it boring and expensive? Impossible to understand a snail what the bloody heck is being sang? Yep, yep and yep. It ain’t as modern as musicals. It is expensive to go; in Mexico the opera programmes are offered only in the Auditorium and only to watch re-runs from the New York MET. Stuff sang in long intervals is difficult to understand… specially if you don’t happen to spit in French or German. Above it all, if they’re modernized, they end up being even more incomprehensible. Why would one want to sit…
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The imminent danger of metaphor p3
How to write fiction scared and being stubborn
Does anyone play magic cards? p1
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Three ways exercise improves your writing
It gives your brain a break. A break doesn’t mean doing nothing. It means to change activities and with it, you would be sending oxygen to your brain. More oxygen brings out better results.
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How to write fiction making a main character’s life hell
AN STORY IS A CHAINED REACTION to the main character’s wish versus every single thing we put in their way to stop it from happening. In a few words, we’re the crazy bitches making hell out of the character’s life —that sometimes they make ours a pain in the neck…
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What is and how to differentiate a forda plot from a forza plot?
A forda requires change. Personal change, internal revolutions, spiritual revelations. It requires…a brain able to solve puzzles or hyper tongue twisting moral/intellectual challenges. Of irony and jokes that take a bit more than gas being expelled by the guts. Human nature against or interacting with other human natures to create conflicts that happen INSIDE the head of the main characters. On the other side, forza plots try to run after the event. Murder followed by terrorist attack plus the profiling, the hero catching the guy. Diamond robbery, treason within the thieves’ band, collateral dead…Fordas are easy to see miles away. And kinda hard to create since there are more of…
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How to write fiction plagiarizing….lay outs
It is from there that we plagiarize. The plagiarizing T. S. Eliot mentions is not the vulgar let’s see whom to steal ideas from. It is the study and imitation of the literary hero who wrote the bloody thing which inspired us to write until we learn how to create something on our own.
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How to write fiction trying not to go blind or at least try in 7 basic advices
Your body, dear writer/engineer/designer colleague, is the only tool you can’t replace...yet. And if it is already possible there’s no way to afford it. Take care of your eyes.
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A web of words
Three ways exercise improves your writing
How to box a character into a corner in magic systems… p1
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How to write fiction living a writer’s life or what’s a writer’s lifestyle?
Mo matter what you decide, you're about to get yourself a writer's lifestyle since you're to write.
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How comes everybody writes interesting personal plots?
How to write fiction plagiarizing….lay outs
Sometimes on Sunday
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Bob esponja mola
¿Estás pensando en abandonar esta entrada? Antes de hacerlo déjame poner dos de mis cartas sobre la mesa: Bob esponja no me gusta La explicación de las causas que llevan a un resultado no significa que estamos de acuerdo con el resultado. Ni que el resultado tenga por fuerza que ser así.
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How to write fiction scared and being stubborn
Sometimes on Sunday
What to do if you can’t create a lovely villain?