Categoría: How to write fiction
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Is it worth to write short stories? How to write them? p2
WHAT’S THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA’S TOPIC? Survival. We all like survival. We all are survivors of something. The displaced Russians from Tajikistan have fled their home to go and settle in Chernobil. They have gone from surviving war to surviving radiation. We, the rest of us with a lot less dramatic survival feats,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…