How to write fiction
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Why are comics and poems alike? Line and direction p2
Scale is a concept attached to the size of the media’s surface. Just by changing the size in points of this line, changes the thing that requires your immediate attention at the time of reading.
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Why are comics and poems alike? Line and direction p1
Dots are, as a matter of fact, the bytes. Lines are more like the kilobytes. Since lines are a group of dots one behind the other being perceived as something continuous. However, we use lines to express something more complex than just on/off so lines are the basis
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Why are comics and poems alike? Visual input p2
No image and no letter are reality itself. To just utter the word “butter” won’t make you any fatter than saying “water”. Comic and literature (that means poems too) move in a reality representative level. And both use symbols.
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Why are comics and poems alike? Visual input p1
<<The inclination toward wanting to connect the verbal and visual structure is totally understandable. One of the reasons is natural. Visual data has three distinctive and individual levels: the visual input which consists of myriad symbol systems; the representational visual material we recognize in the environment and can replicate in drawing, painting, sculpture, and film; and the abstract understructure, the form of everything we see, whether natural or composed for intended effects>> A primer of visual literacy. 1973, MIT press. Donis A. Dondis. Pag. 27-28. Op cit. SENSITIVE A poem is a close cousin to comic based on the sole fact that both, start by being an input. Visual or not, both require a sensorial perception that…
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Image: the obvious thing common to poetry and comics p2
Visual literacy is rarely taken into account and extensively unknown to people. That’s how comics and poems are not related to each other without an explanation of the obvious. In the case of poems, they will not be recognized as images for literacy excludes image as “intellectual”. In the case of comics, they will not be recognized as a media that requires literacy for visual language is not reckoned as an actual language. Hence, it is quite obvious no one is going to see the obvious connection in between.
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What do comics and poems have in common: silence p2
We break the silence. It is the white or black without any word or image we intrude upon. We can create silence. That black or white around the word or image to create sequences, rhythm and interest. Silence is there for us to read it.
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What do comics and poems have in common: silence p1
Silence is nothing. However, important to fiction, design and perhaps, engineering. Without silence, there’s no tale, no reading and hence fore, no communication.
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Why to watch out with words!
Maybe you think words are not something to be wary of. Watch out! The traitors. Sometimes the complaint is hidden among them. They can be a quick peek into the horrible inner world of the character. And they’re easily misunderstood. Pick them with care. Or let them ooze without regard. As unworthy as they seem, they can change a character’s world. In consequence, be wary of words and in awe too. Pasto kalo.
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From the fly-man to the man-fly, are magic system reversible? p2
Determining the time our story is taking place we can imagine clothes, culture, tech and… resolve the question about society behaviour. How are men and women to behave? It also helps choosing the way we’re bending the usual plot lines known for fantasy in order to create something different.
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From the fly-man to the man-fly, are magic system reversible? p1
Once we have these three elements (limitation frame around the magic to be used, abundance or lack thereof and the beings working out the magic system or against it) we have enough to discuss story seed. What Michael Alwill calls seed story (I’d call it magic bean) is: Where? When? What's society like? Main character? We need to choose a place for our story to make sense
