Dez dicas de vários escritores

Assunto: Dez dicas de vários escritores 04/05/08, 11:56 am

Aqui ficam dez conselhos de escrita criativa.

Podem encontrar muitos outros na minha ciberpágina "Palavra Criativa" (http://palavracriativa.googlepages.com), na secção "Técnicas e Conselhos" (http://palavracriativa.googlepages.com/tecnicas).

1. Três dicas

"I had marked down in my notebook three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful:

- It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.
- The author must feel a passionate urge to write it.
- He must have the conviction, or at least the illusion, that he is the only one who can handle this particular theme".[/list][/list]— Isaac Bashevis Singer

2. Evite o estilo rebuscado e artificial

"Express yourself in a plain, easy manner, in well-chosen, significant, and decent terms, and give an harmonious and pleasing turn to your periods".

— Cervantes

3. Escreva todos os dias

"If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both — you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you".

— Ray Bradbury

4. Aprenda com os erros

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep".

— Scott Adams

5. Inspire-se em pessoas reais

"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them".

— Dorothy Allison

6. Preste atenção a todos os pormenores

"I’m trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that’s one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son".

— Richard Ford

7. Evite ser demasiado evidente: os leitores também têm o direito a pensar

"Let the readers do some of the work themselves".

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

8. A inspiração, por si só, não chega (esta é para os escritores preguiçosos, que se julgam génios e pensam que um texto se escreve à primeira)

"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time. The approach must involve getting something down on the page: something good, mediocre or even bad. It is essential to the writing process that we unlearn all those seductive high school maxims about waiting for inspiration. The wait is simply too long".

— Leonard S. Bernstein

9. Preste atenção à sonoridade das palavras

"Always write (and read) with the ear, not the eye. You should hear every sentence you write as if it was being read aloud or spoken".

— C. S. Lewis

10. Um método para planificar a escrita

"I lay out the story in blocks, like a checkerboard. Each vertical column is a time frame (Mon., Tues., last year, whatever). I assign a horizontal row to each character, who tells his version of the story in sequence, through the time frames. In that way, I can look at any time frame and see exactly what all of the characters are doing at that moment.

When I get the chart blocked out, I sit and stare at it, testing every event, every character, challenging everything. I uncover all kinds of discrepancies, and I always see ways to make the story better, ways to increase the suspense, to eliminate unnecessary characters. I might make eight or ten revised plot charts before I'm satisfied".

— William Hallahan

Assunto: Re: Dez dicas de vários escritores 05/05/08, 10:07 pm

Como sempre um insight muito bom de nosso amigo.

Obrigado Mancelos!

Abraço cheers

Opus

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