Categoría: How to write fiction
-
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.
-
Bad idea number 2: how to write using bad ideas
THE TRUTH It is more difficult to stare at the blank paper and try to fill it with something, anything; than criticizing. I wonder how many people would just shut up if they tried to write or just draw over. And drawing is not as difficult as we are made to believe. It just takes…
-
Bad idea number one: how to write using bad ideas
LINKEDIN AND TED Once upon a time I used to have a LinkedIn[1] account with my penname until policies said my avatar was not mine and wasn’t me. It obviously wasn’t me. For good reasons I won’t tell here. Amd since that comment was a complete distraction from business, let’s jump out into the important…
-
How a cliché telltales where you’re from (or what you have read)
HOW CLICHÉS ARE A NATIONAL ISSUE I’m pregnant. He is your father. I’m getting married to her. Who can save us now? The Caucasian main characters. The billionaire and the poor girl (universal motif?). To betray family for love. The traditional single mom’s family. Can you recognize these clichés? You have watched Mexican movies and tevenovelas. Argentinian…
-
Is it the same the one who writes to the “writing person”?
ABOUT PEOPLE WHO WRITE A just anyone writer can wear turtle necks, listen only to classical music or be inspired by music… Place their tongue in whatever pleasure (metaphorically speaking) in front of the allotted word painting time… A normal kindergarten teacher coming home gets dinner heated in the microwave, takes her phone and gets…
-
Wanting Ze (non serious yet short manual on how to write fiction application)
TWO VERSIONS For demonstration purposes, and let me say this wasn’t the best tale I’ve written; I’m going to do the storytelling as if I were answering questions (or the bullets proposed to solve story creation from the last entry) and a second version; describing what’s happening. IN CASE YOU DON’T REMEMBER OR DIDN’T READ…
-
A nothing serious however really short manual to fiction writing
This a somehow explained by me, in a really short way, what I read in Take off your pants by Libbie Hawker. Warning: I didn’t read it complete so if you might, please do. THE TALE’S CORE MY CHARACTER Someone simple. A mosquito. And since mosquitoes go zzzz, she is going to be Ze. WHAT…
-
Poemoji?
Those are poemojis by Dante Tercero. WHY THIS ENTRY AND WHAT POEMOJIS ARE? That day, that day was Friday and I had a guest from Zacatecas, A book keeper called Lourdes who loves writing and who also has done a bit of poemojing. Which, as you can see, is a sort of graphic poetry done using…
-
Why are comics and poems alike 7: closure
If you take a look at a circle missing a little bit of the whole perimeter line, your brain will do the rest and you will perceive the shape as a full circle. Whether there is no circle in a way that is called closure in Gestalt and might not be related to the usual…
-
Why are comics and poems alike 7: closure p2
If you take a look at a circle missing a little bit of the whole perimeter line, your brain will do the rest and you will perceive the shape as a full circle. Whether there is no circle in a way that is called closure in Gestalt and might not be related to the usual…