How to write fiction
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A web of words
Words are the prelude, the story is nothing else than the marvelous use of words as tools performed in scene after many practice hours. Thats what a quote of myself would say. However, Im not quotable. Thus, its time to share a Reith lecture. One from 1996. That old! Yes, that old. In the original entry, the one I translated , I mention the RAE discussion on the j and the x and you might get confused what does the RAE has to do with a web of words. You might even ignore what the RAE is! THE RAE RAE stands for Royal Academy of (E for the Spanish) Language.…
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Poemoji?
Why are comics and poems alike 6: are really metrics and comics compatible? p2
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What to do when a character fucks it up?
You never know when one of these “minor contacts” will have a big impact on a more prominent character.
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How to turn causal into casual in fiction?
To turn causal into casual is like having a mouse at home. You haven't seen the damn rodent at all but you know it is there. How? Mice leave behind little round thingies. They also leave nibbled cables/fabric/plastic, scraps of food and fiber balls behind them. None of the causal “facts” of our tale will be holding an "Acme bomb" tag. You won't see the mouse. You will see what's left behind. Anything to hide the way dots connect has to be concealed by distraction.
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How difficult is it to write fiction?
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About dialogue: She said, he said. p3
Dialogues are there to have flow not to Clonazepam people.
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About dialogue: She said, he said. p2
to avoid your reader getting lost, make dialogue as clean as possible.
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About dialogue: She said, he said. p1
START WITH A DESCRIPTION OF PEOPLE TALKING instead of starting with a dialogue.
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What are the 7 principles of theatre plays? p4
Last time it was all about how characters reacting and talking the way they’re supposed to on stage creates the mood but this entry is about TIME. Synchronization: In a play, time runs parallel; two to three hours happening in real time. A sort of dramatized reality show. What you see happening is happening in the time things take in the real world. Thus the convention is somehow shared with movies and TV… And yet there’s bullet time and fast forward video, hence time is a lot more constricting in a play.Novels… Novels have Windows time. We describe or stop describing to set pace. To decode takes longer, we need…
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What are the 7 principles of theatre plays? p3
We only need to be told we're playing and we play.
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What are the 7 principles of theatre plays? p2
Do we have to care about what comes up in theatre when we don't even write playwrights? Maybe not. Except for the part in which the different media covet what the other media CAN do.
