@tibianchini
1 year ago
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#Desafio 365 days (029 of 365)
Today I'm not posting a poem or a chronicle. Instead, I'll explain my writing process. I think it's really nice for us to think about the lawsuits...
I've always had a hard time writing very long things (as amazing as it sounds), so I do this:
- First, I guess I just read the book I'm gonna write. And I'm gonna do a summary of the book for a friend, like I'm telling him the story. This summary has about three pages and counts everything from the book to the end and the plots (then it is not a synopsis).
- What? Then I see if the story got good and incremented, in a new "more detailed summary" (which occupies about 10/15 pages).
- Then I open a program called TRELLO, which I used when I was a civil servant. There, I organize chapter by chapter, as will the dialogues, what are the resolutions of old dilemmas and where are the loose threads, all that. I also flap the characters, of course: how do they think, what they like, what world views, where they change each chapter, how do they perceive things (more sensitive? More auditory?)
-The next step is to summarize each chapter and change the order of the resolution points, new conflicts, etc. (this thinking of not leaving much loose at the same time; it solves and opens new dilemmas).
At this moment, sometimes, I already create one or two pages of dialogues and narratives, to give "the tone" of history, with what level of irony, humor, type of vocabulary, etc.
After all this is done, practically the book is finished. Just sit down and count the parts that are already there, organized. I rarely move on some things in the structure (because everything is already well tied and any change will cause a cascade effect).
The reviews begin, which will show me if everything has become too predictable or too linear... This is when I think of rhythm - in which moments the narrative should get faster and chaotic, in which others will be slower for some messages to be hammered, etc.
- Time for someone to read. Normally, what comes after dissonates one or another punctual change.
Let's just say I'm more than an architect: I'm almost an engineer.
For poems, I'll tell you another day.
PS: This post came from a conversation on the @carlajaia page - I recommend that everyone go there to read how she does it.
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Guys, I thought it was very interesting. Like I told you, my style is the opposite of that. I'm intuitive, I don't even build a garden, I make a jungle. Then I set up little paths, clearings, including houses. It's more like bragging, but without destroying the wild aspect of nature.
How interesting
Ah! Another PS: There are some spoilers in the images, which are from my MORBUS MACHINUM trilogy. I tried not to get anything too revealing...