[SKRIVA] Författarnas egna skrivregler

From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:46:23 +0100
En artikel där författare ombetts att i korthet formulera sina bästa 
skrivregler:
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one
 
Den som är observant kan notera att det är utrikiska författare och att det är 
på engelska. Men det är ganska intressant i alla fall. Några exempel:
 
"Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. Think of what you skip 
reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in 
them."
 
"Don't sit down in the middle of the woods. If you're lost in the plot or 
blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. 
And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page."
 
"Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue."
 
"Only bad writers think that their work is really good."
 
"Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is 
made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how 
"made up": what matters is its necessity."
 
"The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator."
 
"Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting."
 
"Be aware that anything that appears before "Chapter One" may be skipped. Don't 
put your vital clue there."
 
"If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major 
themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the 
introduction. - Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the 
development. - Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the 
resolution."
 
"For a good melodrama study the famous "Lester Dent master plot formula" which 
you can find online. It was written to show how to write a short story for the 
pulps, but can be adapted successfully for most stories of any length or genre."
 
"Carrot and stick – have protagonists pursued (by an obsession or a villain) 
and pursuing (idea, object, person, mystery)."
 
"Unless you are writing something very post-modernist – self-conscious, 
self-reflexive and "provocative" – be alert for possibilities of using plain 
familiar words in place of polysyllabic "big" words."
 
"Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts – including my own 
– where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: "This 
is where the novel should actually start." A huge amount of information about 
character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional 
attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other 
stories. Be business-like about it. In fact . . ."
 
--Ahrvid

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