my Creative Writing Course: Writing for publication Introduction
If you are thinking of becoming successful writers attended a writing course creative think you'd better spend your time in another way. Maybe you would agree to take a walk or sit back and listen to your favorite music. There are unique rules that allow it to transform an aspiring writer (or a imbrattafogli if you like) in an author with a capital letter. So what are we doing here? Nothing but an attempt to improve the way you write, avoid common mistakes and learning, with time, exercise, and fatigue (tanta!) to improve our developed from the standpoint of syntax, grammar, and what the entries.
There is an essential element that distinguishes a imbrattafogli by an author able to communicate emotions, sensations, feelings and impressions. That "something" is called talent and is, unfortunately, a natural gift. Nothing prevents, however, even for those who have this gift, to greatly improve the quality of what he writes, in a reasonable time achieving a very satisfactory result.
In order to provide the means necessary to write a good text, you will find here tips, tricks, ideas and exercises to help.
This "manual" you will, from time to time, structuring and on-line will grow, over time, not only of useful information and teaching materials, but also news about the essay contests, reports of events the most important cultural and published a special section where they will be the best prepared.
Writing is a wonderful experience, an exploration within its spirit, a way to overcome all barriers and borders. Good journey to you all!
1. The idea and the character
To begin to tell a story, whether in the form of story or novel, it is necessary to give the reader an idea of \u200b\u200bthe characters in the story treat. A common mistake many new writers is to right from the start to dwell on insignificant details, leaving out a key element. Who are we talking about?
The first rule, if so we call it, is to immediately and in a few words, an accurate picture of the characters. It is not necessary to describe carefully the clothing, the details of the face, eye color and hair. With a few strokes you need to enable the reader to "see" the character, focusing on some key feature that allows, in the subsequent development of characteristic features to recognize it immediately. We can say of a man who "was fat, his hair sparse and rather low" but if we add to this description, an optional "personality" that sets it apart, we started working on the "thickness", this element is lacking, almost always, in the texts of the debutants.
"He was fat, fairly low and with thinning hair but he had an infectious laugh." As you can see, we have not done anything but add the element of "infectious laugh" to make the idea of \u200b\u200ba good-natured and jovial person.
Analyzing the descriptive texts listed below, practice to describe a character, real or imagined does not matter, what matters is that, with a few words appear "alive".
1.This' man was a young man of perhaps twenty-five years of a beauty that I saw a few times in life mia.Alto, with broad shoulders, snellissima life as if it were a woman, elegant, long legs in cowhide boots gialla.Era blond like gold, his eyes were a color between green and blue, almond-shaped, and how strange dreamy, straight nose, large, thin, red mouth and well-designed , and bared teeth when he smiled beautiful, white and regular, it was a pleasure to watch. He told us he was not German but Russia, a country far away.
(A. Moravia, Two Women, Bompiani)
2.Martino is an old school friend, with a long head, long, a front-ending and chin, a big nose that looks like a shapeless stone, and two eyes in the midst of the mountainous desert of his face, sweet, full of tenderness, hanging down, a nice brown color, like a dog. (C. Levi, The clock, Einaudi)
3.Era a robust-looking gypsy woman, with two large gold rings in her ears and gold chains and necklaces of colored beads neck. He had an asymmetric face, rouged and wrinkled, but with an intense expression, a hooked nose, eyes burning blacks. It was dark in complexion and long hair was uncombed and blacks. The loose clothing were used to hide the fact that maybe she was fat or maybe wore them only for their large and shabby convenience, a red tunic, a black tiered skirt, long and wide gray cotton jacket, a red shawl and blue. Bare legs, bare feet and sandals. (R. Rendell, Something wrong, Rizzoli)
Pina Varriale
