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Página 24 – Sitio sobre chorradas acerca de cómo escribir ficción

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  • Herramientas que sobreviven el paso del tiempo

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    Estás herramientas han soportado el paso del tiempo. Son más viejas que las pirámides, Stonehenge y las pinturas rupestres más antiguas. La contribución de Joseph Campbell fue la de juntar las ideas, nombrarlas y organizarlas. Él fué el primero en develar el patrón detrás de cada historia jamás contada.El héroe de los mil rostros es su testamento sobre los temas persistentes de la tradición oral y la literatura registradas: el mito del héroe. [Campbell] descubrió que existe una única historia sobre el héroe, recontada cientos de veces en una infinidad de variaciones a través de su estudio de los mitos «universales».

    The Writer’s Journey. Mythic Structure for Writers. Christopher Vogler.

    Universal era la única palabra que quedaba allí… Pese a que universal debería ser a lo largo del universo y no solo en un planetita azul dónde se dicen cosas como «Miss Universo» sin que ninguna otra especie de otro planeta participe.
    Por otro lado, parecería con este extracto que basta con leer a Joseph Campbell para comprender como escribir ficción… Y eso no es así. Es fantástico, sin duda.
    No obstante, Joseph Campbell no hubiera considerado nunca, ciertos mitos como parte del mito humano (el dinero, la religión, la Historia con H). No porque fuera menos inteligente que nosotros o estuviera en desventaja tecnológica. Es porque fue un pionero. A los pioneros se les ocurren las ideas por primera vez. A veces tienen tiempo de mejorarlas. A veces solo tienen el tiempo de reunir el material. Lo importante es tenerlos en cuenta como primeras lecturas cuando decidimos dar el paso. Disfruten sus lecturas de aprendizaje.

    Pasto kalo.

  • What do comics and poems have in common: silence p1

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    IMPORTANT OR NOT

    We all care about something. But, is it the same thing we care about? No, we don’t. Consequently, if we are to try and decide what comics and poems have in common, our answers might diverse as much as saying comics and poems are nothing alike.

    Indeed, they are alike. Both are stories to begin with. Poetry is, yes it is my opinion and therefore not humble at all but still an opinion not a fact so convince me of the contrary; the nirvana all writers wish for. If the micro novel (6 words according to Hemingway) is the smallest unit of fiction; then poetry is THE story. The Enuma elish, The Odyssey…The Iliad…they are poems. Maybe because poems are easier to remember than prose.

    Then if we look back to the old times as those of the poem as epic narrative; what do we get image wise? Trajan’s column in Rome, The book of the dead, Altamira, Johannes Vermeer or ukiyo-e. Yes, the last ones are way more modern than any epic poetry but still old enough to say comics have been around for a while. Are ruin engraves totally devoid of narrative?

    WHAT ABOUT SILENCE?

    Silence is nothing. However, important to fiction, design and perhaps, engineering. Without silence, there’s no tale, no reading and hence fore, no communication.

    WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

    We break it. It is the white or the black we intrude into either with words or image.

    We are the creators around it. It is the white or the black around the word (mostly scenes when talking prose) or the image we use to pause, ration or uphold as more important. Sequence depends on what’s missing and what’s there. Rhythm requires silence in between the groups. Interest depends on us getting quiet at the right time.

    Alfredo Ballesteros1, prize winner… no idea which prizes for I have never met him and I doubt he would ever care about me; thinks it is a sequence we can drag to give space to contemplation. I don’t think so.

    TO B E CONTINUED

    1. The chap has read his share of poetry and manga to be able to state such a thing; he is director to the publishing house Agua Verde and has no more information Wikipedia wise. ↩︎
  • Domesticating takes a lifetime

    
    
    
    
    
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    She's your faith,
    I'm your nightmare.
    I'll twist your words,
    Finding ways to avoid.

    Abandonment will mark your trust,
    And in grief you won't forgive.
    How I was gone.

    Her voice is your song,
    Mine a broken rancour,
    The forgotten life's tremor.
    Not a reason to stop.

    That isn't love.









  • De los universos múltiples y la incapacidad del lenguaje para explicarlos

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    El doctor Rjinswand se restregó la frente. Le vendría bien una copa. Las ondas concéntricas de la paradoja se extendieron por el mar de la causalidad. Lo más urgente es aclarar a cualquiera que no comprenda la totalidad del multiverso que, aunque el mago y el turista acababan de aparecer en el avión, al mismo tiempo ya habían estado a bordo desde el comienzo del vuelo, siguiendo el curso normal de los hechos. O sea: aunque es cierto que acababan de aparecer en este juego concreto de dimensiones, no es menos cierto que llevaban toda la vida en ellas. En este punto de la explicación es cuando el lenguaje se rinde y se va a tomar un trago.

    El color de la magia. Terry Prattchet.

    ¿Alguien sabe si la teoría de las super cuerdas sigue viva? Porque es de dicha teoría de donde salen los multiversos. De cualquier modo, siempre es un deleite hacerse la pregunta: ¿qué es la realidad?

    Y si la realidad es aquello que ocurre dentro de nuestras mentes… ¿Lo que imaginamos para una historia existe en alguna parte o universo paralelo creado por nuestro cerebro? ¿Podemos crear universos paralelos solo con imaginarlos?

    En parte sí. Porque existen las realidades imaginadas…

  • Why to watch out with words!

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    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.

  • When something very human is not in your nature…

    I know. It might seem like the wish to make known to unknown people we don’t want to shag. Maybe it is. Still, we need the visibility. Why? To have others alike know they’re not broken. They’re just different.

  • Eclipse

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    All the things I wanted to say
    All the stuff I'd prefer hidden away.
    Over sharing.
    Reluctant.
    Bored and dead.

    Looking at the moon,
    Trying for once new stuff.
    Waiting for it to turn red.
    Changing a small minuscule thing.
    Yet, every hour is confused with yesterday.

    The stars that away.
    My blood turned into eggs.
    Is it cold or my head?

    Too late for tell tale.



  • Uno de los propósitos de la ficción

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    ¿Cómo consiguió Homo sapiens cruzar este umbral crítico [150 individuos], y acabar fundando ciudades que contenían decenas de miles de habitantes e imperios que gobernaban a cientos de millones de personas? El secreto fue seguramente la aparición de la ficción. Un gran número de extraños pueden cooperar con éxito si creen en mitos comunes.

    Nuval Yoah Harari. Sapiens

    Escribir ficción no es solo entretener, es imaginar la realidad, denunciarla o escapar de ella. Es tender puentes entre seres humanos.

  • From the fly-man to the man-fly, are magic system reversible? p2

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    Going on with answering the story seeds Michael Alvill mentioned in A guide to writing magic systems.

    WHEN?


    Are there steam trains like in How’s moving castle, Miyazaki version? Are there police officers of both genders wearing pants XX century beginnings1? Do you need starch for shirts? Is it contemporary? Season determines what to sow. If you’re to make your magic world some kind of isolation from the everyday life, your characters will end up wearing jeans under tunics and sending letters instead of WhatsApps as if your garden is to have marigolds in the middle of April. Or 75ish pear tree types when nowadays we might have a lot less.

    Not only the time determines clothes, it has to do with speech, beliefs and progression. If it is a regression you might find yourself eliminating scenes to avoid boredom since the reader is already aware of what’s to come.

    WHAT’S SOCIETY LIKE?.

    Has there been a fatal collapse of the world order? Are the communists on power and zombie Lenin rules? Is all the drama in a scholar environment where everything is salted by manageable intrigues? Is it an imperial palace betrayal around the corner?

    I can tell that re inventing a world that doesn’t exist is terribly taxing. Be aware. Maybe what you need is to read some history books to check up social behaviours that have already happened. Or maybe not if you’re only recycling the medieval image of things adding chocolate as an extra…

    MAIN CHARACTER

    This is my cue to zip my lips.
    As you can see; it is impossible to sterilize the magical soil and flowerpot the same way gardeners do. In consequence, it is possible for you to end up with something totally different to what you sowed. Not telling you can reverse processes.

    Like my big writing hero2. Who defied the normal order: country boy goes to the city and becomes hero. He had the anti hero in the city changing because the hero arrived, stole his thunder and climbed the social ladder still being an as28650 that. The main character didn’t do the trip, he was already there. And he only had to remain sober.

    This is why I believe that if there is a movie where a man ends up being a fly, why can’t the fly end up being a man?

    Have fun sowing magic beans. Pasto kalo.

    1. I wrote that without realizing the XXI century had begun 21 years prior to that moment. ↩︎
    2. Yes, Terry Prattchet. ↩︎