Etiqueta: How to write fiction
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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 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…
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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…
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How to write fiction making up questions to help yourself to create characters
Seker would have a Lambourghini (his circumstances in the story wouldn’t allow him to possess nothing as a fact)… Unfortunately, I’m zero car oriented thus to name a brand was (at the moment) quite eloquent. The idea comes from the fact that Sue Grafton describes a lot Kinsey Millhone’s car. It ain’t bullshit the idea…
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How to write fiction using drugs (namely addictive characters)
“Begin with an individual and you find that you have created a type, begin with a type and you find that you have created—nothing.” Scott F. Fitzgerald
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How to plan your fictional character in 6 steps
Without regard to how much you plan on filtering to the reader; you need to know: height, weight, zodiac, favourite subject, favourite food, bathroom breaks’ schedule. I mean, they physical and emotional being. What do they want from life? To conquer the world every night? Live in Mars? To eat ramen in Japan? What??!!