How to write fiction
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Is it worth to write short stories? How to write them? p1
WRTITING FEW WORDS I’ve come across writing fiction manuals where the author boasts about writing 50,000 words in one go. So effortlessly they end up erasing scenes. Is it bad to write a lot less than that?! When you think imposition (the way the paper is folded in order to get 4-8-12 pages), maybe. Since there is a fixed numbers of pages to be filled in into a quire. Editors need to think this. At least in case of offset printing. Authors who print digitally have a lot less to worry about imposition. It doesn’t work for copyrighters who need 40,000 words just to justify their choice of a proposal/topic……
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I find it familiar
The presumption that sheep are unintelligent can be found as far back as Aristotle, who asserted in about 350 bce that the sheep is said to be naturally dull and stupid. Of all quadrupeds it is the most foolish: it will saunter away to lonely places with no object in view; oftentimes in stormy weather it will stray from shelter. Yet just a couple of paragraphs later, he remarks that ‘shep-herds train sheep to close in together at a clap of their hands’, so that ‘when a thunderstorm comes on’, they can summon their flocks back to the sheepfold. The contradictions here resound throughout history: sheep are stupid because they…
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Roots
Review and survive the urge to destroy (your fiction masterpiece)
Why to create adorable despicability? p2
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Tales about hatred
There were many men working at Hazard’s who remained anti-Negro, and violently so. Freed blacks would threaten such men by competing for their jobs. George wished that kind of hatred didn’t exist at the ironworks, but he also knew no government could legislate it out of existence because it was rooted in fear; illogical. North and South; Book two, Friends and enemies. John Jakes. Like Mark Mason says, it is all about us and them. Are you able to have the reader side with your character? Can you make readers to feel like «one of us»? Have a great time making the reader afraid of them. Pasto kalo.
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Exophony 3
In Exophony 1 and 2, I blabbed about what exophony is and reviewed a short list of writers who found themselves in a different language. Which means I’m not all lost writing in this terrible language. Today I’ll only quote a bit of Chantal Wright’s essay «Exophony and literary translation. What it means for the translator when a writer adopts a new language[1]«. Where she rationalizes about OWNING A LANGUAGE. «When deliberating on the title of this essay, I initially considered calling it ‘On writing in a language which is not one’s own and what this means for the translator’. But to do so would be to uphold two stubborn myths:…
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Just a collection used to built on
Thompson’s Motif-Index is one of the most important works in folklorestudies produced in the twentieth century. Some may view it merely as a taxonomic endeavor, but as Thompson stated, “Before it can become an object of serious and well-considered study, every branch of knowledge needs to be classified. There was a time when geology and botany consisted of random collections of facts and hastily constructed theories. It was only when this anecdotal stage gave way to systematic classification that real progress was made toward a thorough method of study” (1977, 413). Archetypes and motifs in folklore and literature : a handbook / edited by Jane Garry and Hasan El-Shamy Are…
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As usual
Although she had long looked forward to it, as the story unfolded, she realized she didn’t find it funny at all. The lyrics were racist, the actors were white, and it was blatantly obvious that the female lead was going to be blamed for everyone else’s misdeeds. The whole thing reminded her of work. Lessons in chemistry. Bonnie Garmus … Whenever women can be blamed of something, they are. Even when half the deed rests upon the male counterpart’s decisions. Which is why women are fired and men keep their jobs. Any chance you’re writing fiction where men are fired the same way women are? Pasto kalo.
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A more poetic science?!
Although metaphor and analogy areunconventional in scientific circles, I am firmly convinced that a more nonlinear kind of thought will eventually supplant much of the logical reasoning we use today. Chris Langton, one of the primary researchers in the field of complexity theory, has speculated that in the future science will become more poetic. Our troubled world, too, is becoming too complex for logical argumentation, and may have to change its thinking: real trust, when emotions are running high, is based on analogy, not calculation. Meanwhile, we must concentrate our attention on learning all we can about the brain, as a way to get the jump on where the field,…
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About dialogue: She said, he said. p1
Double, double, toil and trouble
Learn to code to write? p1
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Exophony p2
ARE THERE WRITERS (LITERATURE WRITERS) WHO WRITE IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE TO THEIR OWN? How many? Do they write correctly? Is the switch convenient? What languages do they speak and in which language are they writing? I’ll stop asking. I can always inquire things I won’t be able to answer later. LET’S VOOGLE IT Exo: from outside Phonos: voice And it is a subject offered by the Warwick University! EXOPHONY. All about authors who don’t write in their mother tongues. Imagine my face when I discovered that’s what I’m doing when writing poetry in a language I’m not supposed to be any good at or use better than any college…
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Exophony p1
REQUIREMENTS Have you ever been to the requirements of a scanlation team? Ah, scanation means to scan and translate. Which is theoretically illegal but very much needed when some manga title is not making it up to any of the markets in which one can actually read and understand… Thus. Nothing important but: NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS. Something anyone who has opened a dictionary or had to study (hard) to learn grammar and pass a bloody level exam; could really wonder if it helps. In lieu of their spelling mistakes, grammar errors and… word misuse. THEY MUST WENT TO THE PARK[1] Kill me. A “diva” [modal verb] followed by a participle[2]……
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What’s poetry?
Such is poetry, ineffable but something we know upon sight or hearing. A bundle of words [I know…stanzas]. Something idiotic. Something sublime.
