[Reserved] switch: Fiction techniques Daquan 13
December 12, 2010
Twenty-three of your novels, where “survival”?
you have chosen a different place, you have to constantly exaggerated by doing “overstating” the work, so readers can know the content you have to say.
– Sylvain ratio. I Long
morning when I walk, I go through the one marked “sold here” sign of the village cemetery. This makes me not help but think of the novel where to Zhaobi problems. Should be from that place, the piece you are most familiar, most intimate sense, a place most people can evoke feelings pen.
I wrote a novel, I always choose to stay over, or who have been away from the place I have visited or went back to the place. When I walk the streets in memory of long time, I could not help the story along flowing out.
Sometimes you can not go back you have lived in that place. Passage of time, the passage of time, when the old house and the neighbors have gone. In this case, I will make my feelings find a place deeply concerned about the replacement there. For example, in a book called “town” of the novel, I will move my childhood, a small town with coal-fired boilers, as do many years ago back.
Once I selected a place, I began to understand it until it crystal clear and tangible history and current status. I like this place three characteristics: a unique history, a good situation, for people who live here have an impact. In order to understand its past, I went to the local historical archives to find newspaper clippings, photographs, letters and first-hand information of each period; I also studied the geology and geography; I subscribe to the local newspaper to see the town a year the seasons change, how people here comment on it.
When I write fiction, “to embrace dance”, I chose a smaller. More remote town as the backdrop, I have lived there. And many of my stories come from excavation of the local newspaper. For example, when I saw the sports pages in the section on fishing, and how on the latest fish hooks, rivers and lakes of the situation, I think I have to create a fisherman as the main characters in the book.
If you really want to know a local language and customs, in favor of and in a negative way, sanctions and prohibitions, the best way street person born. In addition, the restaurants and cafes to listen to others gossip, but also to understand the situation of the city, people eat and drink when the total Ailiao something, I often write down every time I hear the conversation in order to grasp this place man and women, parents and children, old residents and the outsider is how to talk to.
you selected in this place, you can use their own unique perspective to observe the sudden events here. For example, in my fiction writing, “five hundred scorpions”, the novel that 名叫特波兹 Mazatlan Mexican village, is one I can recall the first time to a foreign country where wandering. I have read seven books on the Villa, even reaching that place Shihai purchase a map of the town. But when I actually walked the streets in it, I was actually surprised that this place is no forest. Rich people have a brick floor, chrome and metal chairs do make the door. Poor families on the ground is dirty, the chair is made of leather, the door is woven rush. Local industry is charcoal, wood have all been burned. I suddenly realized that my book hero who lost his wife and working in Georgia, he traveled to Mexico, lost a lot of things: hand-made furniture, old oak doors, bright polished hardwood floors. These ordinary household things have become his dreaming. My story and I have seen a consistent picture.
Once you have a place to evoke the memory of the sound, smell and sight, and was selected for you the story of the novel takes place; Once you e in one, and saw what it was like it is now When you finally do, is to ensure that this place is new and meaningful to the reader . Because this is the first time they saw this place, we must give them impressed.
in the arrangement of Missouri as the land of my childhood, I chose 1811, the largest earthquake in the west by the Mississippi River flooded a small town background. This reader mind will produce a severe ground shaking, a small town feel Hair can be dangerous.
When you select a place is really different, you have to do by constantly exaggerated, “overstating” the work, so readers can know the content you have to say. For example, in the creation of “embracing dance”, I noticed some newspaper columns about the weather. In browsing through the heat, cold, large hail, floods, tornadoes and other Texas record of all major events, I found that the town is always in the center of the disaster, always suffered the most serious damage, the most obvious is the tornado that hit 53, it will town razed to the ground. Therefore, the personal experience of the nasty winds and sudden storms, the story I sure some of the most important must be weather-related. If the mother in a sudden outbreak of flood drowned, his father was attacked hail, hail the block in his lover, the fisherman at home wearing a heavy coat of dust. Weather has become the hidden dangers of this book, and the main characters show despair, I am raising a child that period is chaotic, restless feeling.
a naturalist, spoke about his work over the house: “Here sights, sounds, smells, especially the kind of special feeling, I feel very warm and friendly, so that live here like back home. “This is my story for my choice of location when looking for the feeling. This feeling is the pen at the beginning of the novel.
Twenty-four fantasy writing guide
“fantasy literature to be able to shake people minds, the logical and necessary foundation in the real life experience on the actual course, authors can enjoy to imagination, to enrich the picture with the intertwined plot, such as a whirlwind, but the work must not be as good as building castles in the air on the basis of the empty illusion. the author will need to set the fantasy world and we are living in resonate with the real world, readers will need to be able to identify a frame of reference person performance, behavior and expectations will need common sense, the use of magic also need to have consistency, and carefully consider the balance. work will need let readers take the time to read page after page after completing not only to understand its contents, but also have full satisfaction. “- Terry. Brooks
When we tried to create in a long time, in addition to the idea of ??character and plot, the most important and most difficult is the background space-time structure. In addition to depicting geographical space, but also deal with local customs, magic system (if any) and details of daily life, and so the question how these “overhead” concept has become the most compelling is often difficult. If you work in the background space-time similar to medieval Europe, then this book is a convenient, but again the data source; If not, I believe this book still has considerable reference value.
this book in English formerly known as: TheWriter CompleteFantasyReference, I may put it in as “fantasy writing reference guide.” This is the main purpose of this reference guide is to help fantasy writers can easily find basic data, make the background set the fantasy world of work. But this book by the famous Terry. Brooks (TerryBrook, “Shana La sword” author) preface (at the beginning of the introduction is extracted from his written order, the content is very exciting, I will try to free full text translated for reference), and MichaelJ . Varhola, AllanMaurer, ReneeWright, SherrilynKenyon, AndrewP.Miller, DanielCalark other six strengths of experts co-work.
in the content, although the book is divided into ten chapters, but I personally think that its contents can be distinguished: cultural background, magic set, fantasy creatures, life, war and military force five project, respectively, according to the contents contained in brief below.
Chapter cultures
this part of the book contains chapters 1 and 2, the “traditional fantasy culture” (TraditionalFantasyCulture) and “world culture” ( WorldCultures), authors are MichaelJ.Varhola. “traditional fantasy culture” in this chapter, the presentation focused on the most commonly cited medieval Europe. First introduced the basic feudal manor, and the three Catholic political, economic and religious system, then have a simple explanation of the aristocracy and the religious title of the class positions. Temple warrior, warrior hospitals, and other Teutonic Knights, as well as some European political organization and the national border areas, and finally there is a alphabetical order of the term explanations.
As for the “world culture” in this chapter, describes the outside of the European civilization, namely, Egypt, Asia, Maya, Aztec, Inca, Maori and other ethnic social and cultural profile. Egyptian and Aztec cultures in which part of good writing, as part of China … it is best to skip, unless you want to see him fail. But this is not the unique feature of this book, in my reading experience, many reference books introduce oriental culture, except for a really professional, or else most of the authors often confused the so-called Oriental (East Asian countries) and China differences. Often some of China cultural traditions and myths to explain the error, or confused with the Japanese, even the comic style in Hong Kong as a universal set of Chinese tradition. But this is also good, anyway, on the part of China we do not need foreigners to come to the data side.
Chapter magic set
Chapter “Introduction to Magic” (Magic) and Chapter IV, “witchcraft and pagan magic” (WitchcraftandPaganPaths) is the author of AllanMaurer and ReneeWright. “Introduction to Magic” this chapter in favor of basic theoretical introduction, the authors classified the principle of homogeneity magic magic (SympatheticMagic) with the exclusion of different magic (AntipatheticMagic), the former contains the same species and homologous (HomeopathyandContagion) two effects, the latter are taboo (Taboo), for example role. There is also an integral part of a spell that, the ceremony magic (RitualMagic) and indicates Magic (Divination) introduction, golden dawn will wait a few magic secret societies and, finally, astrology and how to make their own magic set set Some guidelines. There is a saying which said: “You can identify a beginner work, because their works did not” taste. ” “Remind the authors describe the magic, do not forget to smell the human influence.
If the previous chapter are the fundamentals of magic, then the” pagan witchcraft and magic “in this chapter where is the magic of the actual surface. The focus of this chapter introduces many different areas of magic sects, and over time the concept of magic and finally the same is an alphabetical explanation of terms, such as Ankh, candle, pentagram, Wotan 抯 Cross explained in the list.
Chapter fantasy biological
Chapter VI “fantasy family” (FantasyRaces) Chapter “Myths and Legends in the biological” (CreaturesofMythandLegend), these two chapters are the introduction of the common in fantasy literature of racial and biological. “fantasy family” in this chapter is based on population as a starting point to introduce some of the fantastic species in common, source is, and there example of the most common dwarf and like Elf, Faerie (Fairies), Giants, Orcs and Goblins Family (GoblinsandOrcs), Troll (Troll) … and other breed, have a brief description and finally also cited a number of other writers create their own fantasy creatures, and self-setting precautions.
As for the “myth and legend in the creature” in this chapter, all in accordance with the order, the total number of over fifty of the term explanations. here explanation, while not AD
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