How to write fiction
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Why are comics and poems alike 6: are really metrics and comics compatible? p1
Metrics are not compatible to vignettes, Metrics deal with sound units and the vignettes are image units. Plus, there are no clear conventions about the number of vignettes or chomas used on page; like there used to be about poems. A beat is not centered in the how it happens but in the what and; seemingly, it is a way to subdivide a story de same way an outline divides into chapters and scenes. As such, beats explain how to subdivide things into scenes but nothing about measuring thus beats are not what integrates metrics into comics. Measuring, outside the number of pages, seems incompatible to comic. Comics, though some…
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Keep it simple, says a historian
That day’s entry I was taking a break…More like procrastinating comparing comics and poems. At the moment I had the not so suitable suspicion you can make anything similar to anything if you dig enough as many funny ideas do. Or maybe it was just a cynical and disagreeable thought raising its venomous head to make me feel discouraged. As of anything, today is a quote. Yes, I began to quote very early since writing is something you can pretend that needs a lot being said but, in fact, only needs the stupid order of… writing. TIM FERRIS INTERVIEW TO NUVAL YOAH HARARI This is good advice about teaching. And teaching is…
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Why are comics and poems alike 5: metrics p4
If we look at the following definition: “the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line” we can easily conclude that poems and comics are nothing alike in a matter of measure. Particularly since poems are measured in syllables. The syllable is one sound represented by a combo of consonants and vowels that can be counted within the basic unit of a poem called a line (or the more common in Spanish, verse). A bunch of lines make up a stanza (more commonly in Spanish a strophe). English and Spanish count in different ways and give the poems different names based…
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Why are comics and poems alike 5: metrics p3
If we look at the following definition: “the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line” we can easily conclude that poems and comics are nothing alike in a matter of measure. Particularly since poems are measured in syllables. The syllable is one sound represented by a combo of consonants and vowels that can be counted within the basic unit of a poem called a line (or the more common in Spanish, verse). A bunch of lines make up a stanza (more commonly in Spanish a strophe). English and Spanish count in different ways and give the poems different names based…
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Why are comics and poems alike 5: metrics p2
If we look at the following definition: “the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line” we can easily conclude that poems and comics are nothing alike in a matter of measure. Particularly since poems are measured in syllables. The syllable is one sound represented by a combo of consonants and vowels that can be counted within the basic unit of a poem called a line (or the more common in Spanish, verse). A bunch of lines make up a stanza (more commonly in Spanish a strophe). English and Spanish count in different ways and give the poems different names based…
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Why are comics and poems alike 5: metrics p1
If we look at the following definition: “the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line” we can easily conclude that poems and comics are nothing alike in a matter of measure. Particularly since poems are measured in syllables. The syllable is one sound represented by a combo of consonants and vowels that can be counted within the basic unit of a poem called a line (or the more common in Spanish, verse). A bunch of lines make up a stanza (more commonly in Spanish a strophe). English and Spanish count in different ways and give the poems different names based…
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What do comics and poems have in common: silence p2
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Why are comics and poems alike: Sequence p4
A sequence is a succession of images in regard to the actions taking place in the different scenes of a story, which are implicitly related one to each other. Regularity means to favor the elements in an equal scale or shape to create an order or a correspondence. Predictability is to use such a pattern, order or correspondence for the reader to find what they is waiting to find. Thus, the order in which we present the elements does matter. It conditions the imagination to the following movement and the “what” we’re to tell. Since the order of words affects the sequence of the poem ̶words and symbols are, after…
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Why are comics and poems alike: Sequence p3
ORDER MATTERS Thus, the order in which we present the elements does matter. It conditions the imagination to the following movement and the “what” we’re to tell. Unfortunately, there are no magic formulas to know if 9, 8, 7 or 3, 6, 0 is better when telling a story. It is the writer, or the comic drawer who decides that. It is even your job to decide the cliffhanger. Something readers”hate” but need in order to remain interested. ABOUT TRANSLATIONS First, let me clear I demonstrated this in Spanish. English ain’t my mother tongue AND I’m a tad tone deaf. Of the possible 8 tones of the “ma” syllable in Chinese, I…
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Why are comics and poems alike: Sequence p1
A sequence is a succession of images in regard to the actions taking place in the different scenes of a story, which are implicitly related one to each other. Regularity means to favor the elements in an equal scale or shape to create an order or a correspondence. Predictability is to use such a pattern, order or correspondence for the reader to find what they is waiting to find. Thus, the order in which we present the elements does matter. It conditions the imagination to the following movement and the “what” we’re to tell. Since the order of words affects the sequence of the poem—words and symbols are, after all,…
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Storytelling good and decent
I get it. Decent guys backslide into meth and gang rape. Good guys knock up their girlfriends and flip burgers. The female of the species. Mindy McGinnis. Harper Collins.