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The first manual in writing fiction that isn’t about writing fiction but about human myths: The hero with a thousand faces
It establishes a relationship myth (story) to the psychological need of the three most life passage ceremonies there are: birth, initiation to adulthood and dead. Which explains why Harry Potter is as popular. It is a hero that goes through all them (the last implies Voldemorth and his own death so he can be reborn into a normal human being again) thanks to parental love. This reality is taken into account in videogame design and other stories to get our empathy.
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How to write fiction creating 4 chasms between what’s wished for and the results
Our experience (reader) against what the writer can do to enrich such experience with something different to a cliché.
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How to get rejected by any editor and 3 proposed chamomile tea ideas to avoid so
Your success is tied to the success of the editor. Hence, the editor NEEDS that you analyze and know inside-out the characteristics and benefits of the product (your book). In consequence, part of your job is to bring in buyers by having and maintaining selling vantage points as a blog, twitter, FB or IG with as many followers as you can bring in.
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How to get rejected by any editor
A book proposal is judged mainly in the amount of work, the editor needs to add to his already sardine canned agenda.
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How to write fiction playing Scrabble
2. You can play it “open dictionary” mode (hontoni honto). This is included in the rules if you’re so kind to check it. It is ideal to be used with children and learn words together. It is better than school readings… I have seen them. Some are more boring than the Newspaper.
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How to write fiction with a naturalist’s lifestyle
Gerry Durrell said a naturalist —what minute did naturalists became biologists the Charles Linnaeus of the world? — never gets bored. Some of reason he had.
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How to write fiction, 10 ideas to unclogg the temporal writer’s block
GO GET YOURSELF A COFFEE/TEA/COCOA MUG. Cathy Birch says it is better to have wathever you might need hand reach and never waste time looking them up. However… if you’re already wasting time watching the blank of space, why not to give your brain a break?
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How to write fiction without explaining…or maybe explaining
The more experienced you’re, the less you’ll have to explain anything cause you start to understand how to work out “SHOWING”. Showing is more taxing than explaining. Nonetheless, explaining also requires a certain level of ability. Not everyone can explain things in a comprehensible way. There are those whom being masters in Chemistry, have no idea how to explain why is it that water is a vital liquid. Which is why if you’re barely starting, you might have to explain.
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5 reasons to write fiction learning a new language
People write in English by reading to authors who write in English whilst people write in Spanish reading to people who write in Spanish. The same in French, Russian, Vietnamese.. Missing on the opportunity to read great books the way they were constructed around in their own languages. You can’t really notice how a plot works, unless you read the thing in the original language. Wodehouse will never work in Spanish. Truly.
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How to write fiction telling half truths or lying better
To lie is to write fiction? Yes. And this only from a certain point of view (since looked at in a certain way it is lying). You will lie along the day…or better said: along your story. Your mission, were you to take it, is TO HAVE US BELIEVE. It comes with the craft and takes imagination as a requirement. It takes to tell the reader there’s a cow eating their rhododendrons (in spite of no cow or flowers being there) and have them to believe so.