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En la cultura de milenio, todo es instantáneo, la gratificación es instantánea, y supongo que eso tiene que ver con lo instantáneo del post, de sólo copiar y pegar, en un instante. Asi, si escojo un post con millones de likes, de alguna forma me hago famoso por escoger algo de otro, con otro, y aseguro mi vistosidad. 

Writing Fanfiction: Tips for Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Fanfiction is an often under-rated genre. Tons of authors have honed their writing skills with fanfiction, not to mention the millions of writers and readers who love exploring familiar stories and characters! Today, NaNoWriMo participant Ville V. Kokko has a few tips for making fanfiction writing shine:

Fanfiction is a popular form of writing and one of the recognized genres for novels on NaNoWriMo. Yet, it’s also stereotyped as an inferior—some might call it silly—form of writing. While denigrating any genre as a whole is never a good idea, there are some common patterns in fanfiction that may contribute to this stereotype.

Of course, one of the popular stereotypes is that fanfiction is full of “Mary Sues”: overpowered, supposedly awesome self-insertion wish-fulfillment characters. I’ll skip that familiar topic and dive a little deeper into what’s behind it and what other fanfiction tropes can appear for similar reasons.

1. Give your characters some depth.

Fanfiction is almost by definition created by people who were touched by the original work enough to want to build something more out of its foundation. This can be a great fount for good story ideas: what if, what next, what about this character’s unexplored story, etc.

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Five Mystery and Suspense Tools to Drive Your NaNoWriMo Novel Forward

Every year, we’re lucky to have great sponsors for our nonprofit events. Today, Sisters in Crime—a community platform for mystery, thriller, and crime writers—shares some tips for writing suspenseful storylines (even for non-mystery novels!). Sisters in Crime is a NaNoWriMo 2020 sponsor.

In the crime fiction genre—including suspense novels, mysteries, and thrillers—there’s nothing better than the reader review that says “I stayed up all night to get to the end.” The propellant writers construct to push readers through to the final page is known as “narrative drive,” something our genre relies on to get readers hooked and turning pages. But it’s not only genre fiction that needs to suspend readers’ attention for the length of a story. Any story needs to catch fire in the reader’s mind to be successful.

And anyone writing 50K in 30 days needs a few ideas for generating tension in their story—without slowing down. As you #NaNoPrep this year, consider these five tools from Sisters in Crime, the international, inclusive organization for writers and readers of crime fiction, mysteries, thrillers, and suspense.

What’s in the mystery and suspense writer’s tool box for you?

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How To Write Dialogue

🦢        ―        &. DIALOGUES . ( what is it? purpose,? types? things to avoid? )

What Is Dialogue, And What's Its Purpose?

Dialogue, as everyone knows, is what the characters in novels, plays, screenplays — basically any kind of creative writing where characters speak — say out loud.

For most writers, dialogue is one of the things we look forward to. It's the opportunity to let the characters' motivations, flaws, knowledge, fears and more come to life! By writing dialogues, you're giving them (the characters) their own voice, fleshing them out from concepts into three-dimensional characters.

Dialogues have multiple purposes — one of them is to characterize your characters. You can learn a lot about somebody's mindset, background, emotional state, and such more from how they speak.

Dialogue makes your writing feel more immersive as well! It breaks up long prose passages and gives your readers something to "hear" other than your narrator's voice. It can communicate subtext, like showing class differences between characters through the vocabulary they use or hinting at a shared history between them. Most times, a narrator's description just can't deliver information the same way that a well-timed quip or a profound observation by a character can.

Monologues

In contrast with dialogues, monologues are a single, usually lengthy passages spoken by one character. They are often part of plays.

A character may be speaking directly to the reader or viewer, or they could be speaking to one or more other characters. The defining characteristic of a monologue is that it's one character's moment in the spotlight to express their thoughts, ideas, and/or perspective.

Often, a character's private thoughts are delivered via monologue. This is called an internal monologue. An internal monologue is the voice an individual (though not all) "hears" in their head as they talk themselves through their daily activities.

Types Of Dialogue

Inner dialogue is the dialogue a character has inside their head. This can be a monologue. In most cases, inner dialogue is not marked by quotation marks. Some mark them by italicizing it.

Outer dialogue is a dialogue that happens externally, often between two or more characters. This goes inside quotation marks.

Things To Avoid When Writing Dialogue

1) Using a tag for every piece of dialogue. Dialogue tags are words like said and asked. Once you've established that two characters are having a conversation, you don't need to tag every piece of dialogue Doing so can be redundant and breaks the reader's flow. Once the readers know each character's voice, many lines can stand alone.

2) Not using enough tags. On another hand, some writers use too few dialogue tags, which can confuse readers. The readers should always know who's speaking. When a character's mannerisms and knowledge don't make that obvious, tag the dialogue and use their names.

3) Dense, unrealistic speech. Dialogues don't need to be grammatically correct. When it's too grammatically correct, it can make characters seem stiff and unrealistic.

4) Anachronisms. A pirate in 1700s Barbados wouldn't greet his captain with "what's up?" Depending on how dedicated you (and your readers) are to historical accuracy, this doesn't need to be perfect. But it should be believable.

Part 2 coming soon.

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Blog 1: Business Story Telling

How inspiring is to watch “Bring the Learning Revolution” delivered by Sir Ken Robinson on Ted.com. One of the key elements in this article is to “revolutionize” our learning experiences by recognizing that every single human being is different. Nowadays in a web world, with all these new technologies blasting our experiences the word “different” has a real meaning, because it means that there is something out there with enough power, with abundant potential of his or her own, something unique that might enlighten our vision, our perspectives about our own conceptions.

As the author stated “Many people go to their whole life having no sense of what talents may be or if they have any to speak of”. In that respect, the problem is how life is conceived “they endure it rather than enjoying it”, says Sir Robinson.

  The speaker really caught my attention when he stated that “education dislocate many people from the natural talents, and human resources are like natural resources’.  In that sense, the author makes an interesting point at comparing human beings with natural resources that are hard to find. From his point of view, we need to return to the agricultural model instead of the industrial model that produces linearity, comfortability and batching people. In contrast, agricultural model is about harvesting what we sow, and human nature follows the same rule. Even though he recognizes that “human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it is an organic process, and you can not predict the outcome of human development”.

Moreover “all you can do like a farmer is to create the conditions on the soil, they will flourish”.

  In that sense, the author suggest that leaders in education, media and corporate must change metaphors in which an educational system, in an industrial model, produces a line of people in certain area of expertise. It is about revolution in education, it is about creating a movement where people develop their own solutions. “Once we reform education and transform it, it is about customizing to your own circumstances and personalize education to people that is actually teaching”.

  This particular speech, from Sir Ken Robinson, reminded me about Full Sail University. In every class, every single instructor has highlighted the importance of doing what we really like. Doing what we really like is about exciting our spirits, feeding our energy, feeding our passion to create a meaningful company, program, movie, song or adventure that really makes a difference in this world, because we are passionate about it.  It is about passion for a dream, it is about putting your heart, your mind, your talent to work in something that is meaningful to us. As Sir Robertson concluded “doing that is the answer to the future,” and indeed, we will create a relevant career behind us for the passion that is behind our spirit.

  For those of you who want to watch this topic, you can find it at: http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html