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Cocoon
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com In her shrine,
The front paws in pray.
I don't know to what.
A dream, a stay.
Doubt scintillates,
What's next brings a demise.
The many legs left behind,
To be reborn a kite. -
¿Cuándo creció la h de la Historia?
Photo by Julia Volk on Pexels.com De acuerdo con las nociones medievales de la Historia, Eneas de Troya y sus descendientes conquistaron y bautizaron diversos reinos, y Félix Bruto, después de cruzar el canal de la Mancha, «las aguas francesas», funda Britania…
Este marco histórico se basa en un conjunto de leyendas y temas memorables de la literatura que recogieron y desarrollaron, no sin talento, Nennio (s. IX) y Geoffrey de Monmouth (s. XII). En el fondo no hacían sino cumplir el modelo de la Historia que se tenía en el Medievo, en el cual al estudiar el pasado no se pretendía hacer acopio exhaustivo de datos, sino más bien ensalzar las virtudes en aventuras y hechos de armas, ya fueran reales o imaginarios, para dar «ejemplos» al porvenir. Desde este punto de vista, digamos didáctico, el relato y la crónica no se solían diferenciar.Nota al pie. Sir Gawain y el caballero verde.
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About dialogue: She said, he said. p3
Photo by S Rawos on Pexels.com Here we are again trying to discover the “secrets” of dialogue in writing.
MIX DIALOGUE, EXPOSITION PARAGRAPHS AND AMBIENT
Don’t ask. I still have no idea what exposition paragraphs are. Just add some interest by describing. Tell us the colour of the curtains or the burnt on the carpet. Too much dialogue and Domet says it gets boring. I find dialogue pretty much likeable. Again, I haven’t been published and can discreetly utter nonsense.
USE SHORT PARAGRAPHS OF DIALOGUE
Do you like speeches? I certainly remember school ‘civic’ ceremonies at 7 morning in winter (freaking cold) and 9 morning in summer (already hot enough to have one or two faints). All of them a bother. Dialogues are there to have flow not to Clonazepam people.
IT IS A FIGHT! NOT A SCREAMING CONTEST!
In fights people do yell at each other. But they will use short phrases and not black Friday lines followed by exclamation marks. Or exclamation marks in a train of sentences…
I don’t know but in A family’s tale by Christine Nöstlinger, there are parts in which I’ve found three sentences in exclamation marks all packed together in the same paragraph. Although, those weren’t dialogue.
READ ALOUD ONCE YOU’RE OVERThe audiobook is for sure to be done and pretty phrases can end up being impossible to be said breathless. Mind it. Domet says it will have you noticing if it is natural or not. I say one needs the experience of talking to other people or listening to others in the bus (when you’re shy).
EVERY CHARACTER SPEAKS DIFFERENTLY
This is quite visible (for those who can read Japanese) in manga. Some characters are country bumpkins and speak kanzaiben and others are authentic Tokyoites. Yet… What is one to do when the difference is only in pronunciation? You need to listen to people. Go out and listen! Use spelling mistakes if needed. Ifigenia de la Parra (White mama’s memories), mentioned the possibility of using music paper; given the fact written words are deaf to tune. And they are. You can’t reproduce cadence or pronunciation just by writing it. Even the addition of particular words do nothing unless the reader is aware.
That’s it. May I get some dialogue through a comment? Pasto kalo. -
Atalanta told by the Cosbrarian
‘Instagram ya tiene subtitulos! Lo que es enojos y genial a partes iguales
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There
Photo by Heber Vazquez on Pexels.com Bloated and forgotten.
Lying on the way to rot.
Gray instead of white.
When white was the colour it should had.
Changing day by day,
Into mushroom pie.
How did you die that even ants are not touching your remains? -
Edad heroica
Photo by Maria Pop on Pexels.com La edad heroica de la que mejor conocemos los antecedentes, la de los germanos, corresponde plenamente a un período migratorio. Muchos siglos antes, los pueblos germánicos habían entrado en contacto con el Imperio romano, cuya civilización sobrepasaba con mucho la de ellos, pero esta civilización romana se iba debilitando de día en día y los germanos habían quedado sometidos a su influencia. Ahora bien, durante los siglos V y VI de nuestra era, estos germanos lograron ocupar la mayor parte de los territorios del Imperio romano, y es durante estos dos siglos cuando se desarrolla y florece su edad heroica.
Tenemos motivos para creer que todo ocurrió del mismo modo con los sumerios. Su edad heroica, como la de los germanos, debió suceder a su migración, y es muy probable que antes de su llegada a Sumer ya existiera en este país un imperio bastante extenso cuya civilización sobrepasase con mucho la suya.
La historia empieza en Sumer. Noah Kramer.
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About dialogue: She said, he said. p2
Photo by S Rawos on Pexels.com Let’s continue babbling about how to use dialogue and the things I don’t understand.
DESCRIBE WHAT THE CHARACTERS DO AS THEY TALK
This technique is used to keep interest and to add subtext and tone.It isn’t the same to say:
Mariana, very angry, said he was an @__35-;!To to say:
Mariana said he was an #44_67 whilst trying to scratch his face.Mostly, bad words are enough to show how much of a bother the guy is. Unless we use this:
Mariana said he was an #4#4, holding the front flaps of his jacket and licking his lips.That turns everything into an erotic game. It all belongs to the rule: show, don’t tell in the technical side of things; plus, avoiding the adverbs.
USE TAGS
A common place in manga and webtoon are ‘lost’ dialogue balloons associated to no one. They’re upsetting and make reading difficult. So, to avoid your reader getting lost, make dialogue as clean as possible. Andrea Camilleri won’t as much as use identification tags to name the person speaking but, in exchange, he would write dialogues of only two speakers alternatively speaking.Unlike what happens in a meeting room filled with people. Here, we need the tags and those have to be as invisible as spider cobs are to flies. Reason why not to say: ‘her voice fell like a leaf on the woods’ and that’s the second convention I’ve broken. And I remind you, I never been published and I just write nonsense.
TO BE CONTINUED
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Rastro
Photo by Egor Kamelev on Pexels.com Redonditas bolitas negritas,
En el alféizar.
¿Dónde está el gato?
En la cama.
El culpable inclinando una rama.
Menudo de tripita con muchas patitas.
Y no es uno,
Son muchos...
Muchas.
Que traerán sus espejos y huevos después de soñar.