Categoría: How to write fiction
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Wand dares and magic systems p2
Magic system definition is about answering or not every raised question by your magic system. Is the magic something to be pursued or is it something that exists there and there’s nothing to explain? Plus this definition, abundance and scarcity can bring up the problem of discrimination, persecution and differentiation.
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Wand dares and magic systems p1
A magic system responds to how much magic is there. Is it abundant or scarce? If it is scarce, who can use magic? The norm is for magic to be scarce; let there be too much and we fall into a boring proposition: everybody is the same… Scarcity can be easily turned into the quest…
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Double, double, toil and trouble
«Un escritor nunca toma vacaciones. Porque una vida de escribir consiste ya sea en escribir o pensar acerca de escribir» / «A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.» Eugène Ionesco The original title was the Spanish translation to that Shakespeare’s lines that would literally…
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Transformation, the most interesting plot of them all p2
As a requirement, transformation plot starts with the incident triggering transformation, there is no pilgrimage here. The pilgrim is already in Santiago de Compostela. How does the character changes inside, what is coming from the change.
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Transformation, the most interesting plot of them all p1
We are born, we grow up and we die. We change. We get transformed. Welcome to the oldest horror story of all, the one of life. Its media res is to move from a meaningful state in a character to a different one. How does this person in particular react to this change?
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Yet, it wasn’t that comical in comedy
The rule is to have three elements. The two first stablish a pattern. The last one crashes the continuity. One, two… spaghetti!
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What we see, we covet
The moment Hannibal lecter is giving Clarice Starling the crumbles to solve Jessica Bimmels murder —the very first Buffalo Bills murder; he says: We covet. And what do we start coveting but what we see every day?ADAPTATION, THE VIRTUES OF ONE INTO THE VIRTUES OF THE OTHER Speaking about adaptation difficulties and the reasons why…
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McGuffin go fetch my plot slippers
A MCGUFFIN IS THE STARTING GUN SHOOT. Important or not important,they come about at some point in the beginning of the plot and represent the desire. They can completely disappear to reappear in the climax. They can cause a city to be put inside out. Or they can become a totem hero object. A magic…
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Marketing’s magic
Magic is a behaviour that’s become popular in most narratives; such as in: Macbeth, Faust, LOTR, Harry Potter, Charmed, Bewitched, Zelda, Dungeons and dragons, Final fantasy, A song of ice and fire… The idea of magic being an exchange. Who is able to manipulate the elements and who is able to foretell the future? Only…
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And so comedy wasn’t a joke
COMPLAIN Is the river dirty? Make the Mork river almost solid enough to never sink in it. Do we dislike the snobish hat? Let’s have it punched out from a head. This is Robert McKee’s image of comedy. A frontal disappointed attack AGAINST anything that could be… Better. Anything the frustrated idealist of a writer…