How to write fiction
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What are the 7 principles of theatre plays? p1
The audience gives a bull about the kind of a theatre play they're watching. They won't analyze if it is dialogued or narrated or whatever. The audience cares about liking it or not liking it.
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The One Rule of (Writing) Witchcraft – Writer’s Digest
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/the-one-rule-of-writing-witchcraft
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Can imagination lead us to write nonsense?
CAN TWO TEENAGERS HOLD A HIPPOGRYPH BY FORCE? Nein. If I (56 kg, 154 cm) struggle to hold on a cutey animal such as a sheep [for sure not smaller and perhaps a little bigger than a Saint Bernard dog at 80 kg average — the dog not the sheep]… A horse like animal, said 154 cm up to its withers — assuming the animal ain’t a poney or a Shire — would drag away two-less-than-130 kg-set of teenagers. Not sorry, thinking pounds and inches/feet is not in my system, I’m a decimal thinker. So 54 kg are about 124~lb, 80 kg—180~ lb and 154 cm—5 f [ yep, I’m…
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What to do if you can’t create a lovely villain?
<< I think it is also possible to make a hero-psychopath one hundred percent sick and revolting, and still make him fascinating for his very blackness and all-round depravity. I very nearly did this with Bruno in Strangers on a Train , for even Bruno’s generosity is neither consistent nor well-placed, and there is nothing else to be said in his favor. But in that story, Bruno’s evil was offset by Guy’s “goodness,” which considerably simplified the problem I had of providing a likable hero, as Guy became the likable hero. It depends on the writer’s skill, whether he can have a frolic with the evil in his hero-psychopath. If…
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Why to create adorable despicability? p2
Hence, how do we have our characters to be apart and different? In BL that’s easy. One of them is hetero and homophobic. Or the other is simply unaware due to being a narcissistic wrench; love here is not to turn hate into passion but total indifference into lust. And lust is easier to get through aphrodisiacs than love through attention and open ears. First happens conveniently in seconds, the last… I shrug. For hetero romcoms, such opposites come as ironic hateable comments that escalate into a twisted flirting. Asexuals… Well we can’t be integrated into scene in spite of being the TOTAL OPPOSITE of sexual people. How do you…
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Why to create adorable despicability? p1
Have you ever found yourself romping over the villain's evilness? Without the despicable one, we have no interest. This thing of antagonistic forces pushed to the limit, raises tension. It's the corn starch to give body to the plot gravy. Robert McKee mentions to face main character against his opposing antonym. The double negative of her situation. We have the classical boy meets girl... A family feud of death and bigotry. Ronald B. Tobias explains how this is old and no longer possible... Hence, how do we have our characters to be apart and different?
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What is red, relishing and terrible? Our Lady’s Child p2
The Virgin Mary came back from her journey. She called the girl before her, and asked to have the keys of heaven back. “Hast thou not opened the thirteenth door also?” “No,” she replied. She perceived the finger which had become golden from touching the fire of heaven, and saw well that the child had sinned, and said for the third time “Hast thou not done it?” “No,” said the girl for the third time. Then said the Virgin Mary, “Thou hast not obeyed me, and besides that thou hast lied, thou art no longer worthy to be in heaven.” In the desert, in which she was imprisoned, there stood…
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What is red, relishing and terrible? Our Lady’s Child p1
By a great forest dwelt a wood-cutter with his wife and an only child. One morning there stood before him the Virgin Mary, She took her up to heaven with her. When she was fourteen years of age, the Virgin Mary called her one day and said, “Dear child, I am about to make a long journey, so take into thy keeping the keys of the thirteen doors of heaven. Twelve of these thou mayest open, and behold the glory which is within them, but the thirteenth, to which this little key belongs, is forbidden thee. Beware of opening it, or thou wilt bring misery on thyself.” She sought out…
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What is terrible, red and relishing?: plot and temptation p1
Either the character resists or succumbs to temptation. Maybe we can make up a second plot called Redemption out of succumbing to it. Conscious there, the Erinyes come and torment us with their whips.
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Up to chapter 15: Why to discuss firsthand the obvious fact?
Such a basic obvious fact needs to be discussed in order for us to notice and not waste our time following tips or ideas just to discover later, we're not aware of the media's strengths and weaknesses. You don't write a movie the same way you write a novel despite it being quite difficult not to learn how to, by reading novels when you’re a scriptwriter and watching movies as a novel writer. Movies envy novels and novels envy movies.
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