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I’m doing a deep dive into how folks use story as a way to escape from trauma. How getting lost in speculative fiction is a kind of dissociative resilience. Escaping into story. Has anyone written about that? Psychology of story?
Because I work across so many domains of knowledge I sometimes come across weird gaps. Like now I’m focusing on story and story structure. Some of what is out there seems to be screenwriters writing in conversation only with themselves 1/?
like #SaveTheCat and Mcgee’s Story. A Jungian/Joseph Cambell top down analysis combined with endless surveys of plots and claim to show there are only a handful of stories in the world, and then teach the craft 2/?
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Durante un tiempo me he dedicado a recopilar #tips sobre #escritura, que me gusta llamar #mantras. Ahora he decidido compartirlos a ver qué os parecen 😉. Abro hilo 👇🏻
#consejos #consejosdeescritura #escrituracreativa #escribir #escritores #escribe
1. «Cada 800 palabras haz que pase algo»
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No recuerdo dónde leí este #consejo, pero es uno de mis preferidos. Si lo que buscas es #escribir #FicciónDeAltaVelocidad lo que debes hacer (creo yo) es no demorarte en las descripciones
2. «No escribas ni una sola línea que no contenga información útil»
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Este #consejo es de #DashiellHammett y compañía. Hay que entenderlo en su contexto: un tipo de escritura #pulp, muy directa, sin florituras y sin ambiciones literarias donde prima el entretenimiento
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