Etiqueta: How to write fiction
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Is communication overrated?
When communication nonetheless breaks down (as it sometimes does) we can pinpoint the error and make our language more specific: Yet another dark, oven-hot morning in yet another hotel bedroom, packing, dressing… and now I couldn’t find my sock. I opened the door of the wardrobe and said, ‘Have you seen my sock?’ ‘Shut it,’ she said. ‘I was…
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How are food fantasies and famine related to fiction writing?
Daniel’s chapter on food fantasies and fetishes is most widely applicable to the food-as-temptation story. In British literature, food fantasies typically depict “rich foods” in “vast quantities as well as foods that contemporary discourses on health condemn as fat-laden” (62). Daniel notes that because of Europe’s history of famine (in England, France, and Ireland), food…
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Since it is impossible to adapt it to reality, is it imperfect?
Let us take first the «fit» between words and reality. This is imperfect because our knowledge of the world is itself imperfect. This is true in an obvious sense of the statements of flat-earthers or devotees of other delusions, but it is also true in a more interesting way. Humanity’s most impressive attempt to dispel…
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Is your fiction austere simplicity?
El contenido destaca la figura de Tycho de Eisenstein y Latour como un símbolo de orden en el conocimiento, cuestionando su credibilidad. También se reflexiona sobre la naturaleza de la ficción, sugiriendo que es más sencilla que la realidad, que está plagada de contradicciones, lo que genera inseguridad en el conocimiento.
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Culturas con herofobia
Aquí y allí en mis viajes, aprendí que algunas culturas no están del todo a gusto con la palabra “héroe” para empezar. La Australiana y la Alemana son dos culturas que parecen un poco “herofóbicas” THE WRITER’S JOURNEY ~ THIRD EDITION. Christopher Vogler. Published by Michael Wiese Productions Mucho más que las sociedades siendo herofóbicas, a…
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The horrible part of it
But I try to make sure they understand that writing, and even getting good at it, and having books and stories and articles published, will not open the doors that most of them hope for. It will not make them well. It will not give them the feeling that the world has finally validated their…
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Tales about hatred
There were many men working at Hazard’s who remained anti-Negro, and violently so. Freed blacks would threaten such men by competing for their jobs. George wished that kind of hatred didn’t exist at the ironworks, but he also knew no government could legislate it out of existence because it was rooted in fear; illogical. North…
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Exophony p2
ARE THERE WRITERS (LITERATURE WRITERS) WHO WRITE IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE TO THEIR OWN? How many? Do they write correctly? Is the switch convenient? What languages do they speak and in which language are they writing? I’ll stop asking. I can always inquire things I won’t be able to answer later. LET’S VOOGLE IT Exo:…
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What’s poetry?
Such is poetry, ineffable but something we know upon sight or hearing. A bundle of words [I know…stanzas]. Something idiotic. Something sublime.