The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do. Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts. Think of your laptop as a machine like the one at the gym where you open and close your inner thighs in front of everyone, exposing both your insecurities and your genitals. Because that is what writing is all about. Procrastination is an alluring siren taunting you to google the country where Balki from Perfect Strangers was from, and to arrange sticky notes on your dog in the shape of hilarious dog shorts. The blank white page. Mark Twain once said, “Show, don’t tell.” Finding a really good muse these days isn’t easy, so plan on going through quite a few before landing on a winner. There are two things more difficult than writing. It’s no secret that great writers are great readers, and that if you can’t read, your writing will often suffer.
100 cuentos de Julio Cortázar y Jorge Luis Borges Twitter21.3K 21.3Kfacebook636K 636Kpinterest698 698google plus2649Share2649stumbleupon93.1KShare93.1Kmeneame561Share561tumblr141Share141 Según el argentino, basta preguntarse por qué un determinado cuento es malo. No es malo por el tema, porque en literatura no hay temas buenos ni temas malos, hay solamente un buen o un mal tratamiento del tema. Tampoco es malo porque los personajes carecen de interés, ya que hasta una piedra es interesante cuando de ella se ocupan un Henry James o un Franz Kafka. Uno de los mejores cuentistas latinoamericanos y, además, uno de los máximos exponentes del Boom Latinoamericano, dijo sobre el cuento casi todo lo que los narradores contemporáneos definen como tal, fue él uno de los grandes cimientos del relato corto contemporáneo y comparaba al cuento con una esfera; es algo, decía, que tiene un ciclo perfecto e implacable; algo que empieza y termina satisfactoriamente como la esfera en que ninguna molécula puede estar fuera de sus límites precisos. Cortázar
(100+) Tumblr 13 Vital Reminders For Writers Writing is tough work. If I may be so bold as to attempt a simile, I’d say that it’s like walking through a dark forest, but with your legs tied together. So in actuality you’re not really walking at all. But sort of hopping. To battle this devil, here are 13 punchy quotes that will help you remain focused as you hop through that dark forest.
The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors by Maria Popova Why Tolstoy is 11.6% better than Shakespeare. “Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,” Jennifer Egan once said. This intersection of reading and writing is both a necessary bi-directional life skill for us mere mortals and a secret of iconic writers’ success, as bespoken by their personal libraries. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers — including Norman Mailer, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, and Joyce Carol Oates — “to provide a list, ranked, in order, of what [they] consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time– novels, story collections, plays, or poems.” Of the 544 separate titles selected, each is assigned a reverse-order point value based on the number position at which it appears on any list — so, a book that tops a list at number one receives 10 points, and a book that graces the bottom, at number ten, receives 1 point. Donating = Loving
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onism The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for. The author's mission is to capture the aches, demons, vibes, joys and urges that roam the wilderness of the psychological interior. Each sorrow is bagged, tagged and tranquilized, then released gently back into the subconscious. ▸ visit the facebook page to hear the backstory behind each word ▸ follow on twitter (@obscuresorrows) for whatever reason ▸ send me a tumblr message describing emotions you need words for ▸ send me an email via obscuresorrows@gmail.com JOHN KOENIG is a designer and commercial director who lives in St. He is currently writing a book version of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Copyright © 2013 John Koenig.
Libros que tienes que leer cuando tu vida no tiene rumbo Llega un punto en la vida de todos en el que sentimos que no tenemos rumbo alguno y que vamos a la deriva por el mundo. Sin una idea fija de lo que queremos de nuestra vida, la gente a nuestro alrededor parece tan convencida de lo que quiere y lo que hace y nosotros… Simplemente no. Cuando esto pasa, es bueno saber que no estamos solos y que hay personajes e historias similares a la nuestra. Los libros son un gran escape para estos momentos de confusión y por eso aquí te dejamos los libros que tienes que leer cuando sientes que tu vida no tiene rumbo. Discos esenciales para una mañana perfecta Películas que solamente disfruta la gente extremadamente inteligente 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Escribir una novela. 9 preguntas y 25 capítulos - Excentrya De la misma forma que un árbol es diferente del resto de árboles, cada novela debería ser diferente al resto de su especie, sin embargo, de la misma manera que todos reconocemos un árbol, lo mismo sucede con las novelas. Una novela, sea cual sea, debe ser reconocible a primera vista, todas deben tener una estructura igual. Todas las historias comparten unos elementos que las hacen reconocibles, si definimos estos elementos antes de comenzar a escribir, tendremos una parte importante de nuestro trabajo hecha, y nos será más sencillo afinar y escribir la historia que de verdad queremos escribir. Hoy os traigo de manera breve, un truco sacado de una charla que dio Mark Teppo, titulada: Outline your novel in 90 minutes (bosqueja tu novela en 90 minutos). 9 preguntas que debes hacerte antes de escribir tu novela: ¿Por qué has elegido a ese protagonista? Así serán tus 25 capítulos: Los capítulos del 1 al 6, serán tu introducción. Los capítulos del 7 al 18, son el nudo de tu novela. Relacionado