Post by account_disabled on Jan 3, 2024 6:26:38 GMT
Are we who have not yet published either with a publisher or self-publishing considered budding writers? While I leave you to reflect on this condition of the writer, I want to continue with the theme of the post: that is, the most frequent mistakes that many of us have made when we started our writing ambitions . Off to emulation: that is, copying other people's stories As I have written several times on the blog, my first attempt at writing a fantasy novel was an indecent copy of The Sword of Shannara , so much so that at a certain point I even called the protagonist Shea, like the one in Terry Brooks' novel. “And who has the rights to that name?”, I thought naively. “Well,” he answered me some time after his conscience, “I would say yes.” Then I read The Lord of the Rings and the redesign of my fantasy novel became an indecent copy of Tolkien's work, complete with appendices, collections of short stories and something like several trilogies of novels.
When my readings began to increase and diversify, I began to see the Fantastic in a different way, to come up with new ideas and above all different from those already used. From this mistake I learned that experience plays a fundamental role for those who love to write: experience of reading and literary genres , because I will always say how Special Data important it is to read multiple narrative genres even if you only want to write about one. Off to emulation 2: that is, copying other people's style How could I not imitate (the translator of) Terry Brooks? And like, after her, Tolkien's? And so with a couple of other authors. When you have little writing practice and you find an author who drives you crazy with his style, it is normal to try to imitate him, emulate him. It also happens in drawing. I imitated Jacovitti, a friend of mine Sergio Toppi, another Andrea Pazienza and yet another Claudio Castellini. Each of us was in love with that cartoonist's style and was driven to emulate him.
The problem, especially in those comics, is that they were very recognizable and original styles, but also difficult to imitate. It's the same in writing, basically every art form takes on different connotations depending on the artist. Even in this case, experience saves us: the more we read and the more we write, the more we come to personalize our art , to our own writing style, to our own artistic identity. 1000 ways to lengthen the broth We always find an excuse to write more than we need . As if the quantity of pages influenced the success of a novel. In my first fantasy novel I wrote two chapters in which I described in detail the world I had invented. They were not only useless for that, but also for the fact that "geological upheavals" had completely changed their topography, so from the third chapter the geography of my setting changed completely. I had invented geological analepsis without knowing it. Another mistake I made was to occasionally include some dreams in the chapters. Of course, I had read about it in the novel The Sword of Shannara , so I felt obligated to make my characters dream. And so I could consume pages and lengthen chapters.
When my readings began to increase and diversify, I began to see the Fantastic in a different way, to come up with new ideas and above all different from those already used. From this mistake I learned that experience plays a fundamental role for those who love to write: experience of reading and literary genres , because I will always say how Special Data important it is to read multiple narrative genres even if you only want to write about one. Off to emulation 2: that is, copying other people's style How could I not imitate (the translator of) Terry Brooks? And like, after her, Tolkien's? And so with a couple of other authors. When you have little writing practice and you find an author who drives you crazy with his style, it is normal to try to imitate him, emulate him. It also happens in drawing. I imitated Jacovitti, a friend of mine Sergio Toppi, another Andrea Pazienza and yet another Claudio Castellini. Each of us was in love with that cartoonist's style and was driven to emulate him.
The problem, especially in those comics, is that they were very recognizable and original styles, but also difficult to imitate. It's the same in writing, basically every art form takes on different connotations depending on the artist. Even in this case, experience saves us: the more we read and the more we write, the more we come to personalize our art , to our own writing style, to our own artistic identity. 1000 ways to lengthen the broth We always find an excuse to write more than we need . As if the quantity of pages influenced the success of a novel. In my first fantasy novel I wrote two chapters in which I described in detail the world I had invented. They were not only useless for that, but also for the fact that "geological upheavals" had completely changed their topography, so from the third chapter the geography of my setting changed completely. I had invented geological analepsis without knowing it. Another mistake I made was to occasionally include some dreams in the chapters. Of course, I had read about it in the novel The Sword of Shannara , so I felt obligated to make my characters dream. And so I could consume pages and lengthen chapters.