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quarta-feira, 3 de julho de 2013
Curso de Escrita Criativa na Biblioteca Municipal de S. Lázaro
Já se encontram abertas as inscrições para o curso de Escrita Criativa, que se irá iniciar a 13 julho na BM S.Lázaro. Para mais informações ligue para 210 99 822.
quarta-feira, 26 de junho de 2013
Escritores são estranhos híbridos... / "...writers I know are weird hybrids."
“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing’s kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there’s also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.”
David Foster Wallace
Sinceramente, gostava de ter sido eu a escrever isto! Que inveja! Na mouche!
terça-feira, 25 de junho de 2013
Os rituais diários de grandes escritores / Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Os rituais diários de grandes escritores
O que os hábitos e manias de autores de sucesso nos ensinam sobre produtividade
Por Danilo Venticinque
"Uma das fórmulas mais eficientes para se tornar improdutivo é passar o dia lendo sobre produtividade. A internet e as prateleiras de autoajuda estão cheias de textos que querem nos ensinar a trabalhar melhor. Seus conselhos muitas vezes se contradizem. Compará-los é uma tarefa para várias tardes ociosas, que poderiam ser aproveitadas de outras formas — trabalhando, por exemplo.
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Talvez por duvidar dos mercadores da produtividade, o escritor americano Mason Currey buscou inspiração noutro tipo de guru. Obcecado pela rotina diária de grandes artistas, ele decidiu reunir informações sobre seus métodos de trabalho. O resultado da pesquisa está no livro Daily rituals (Knopf, 304 páginas), recém-lançado nos Estados Unidos. "Quase todos os dias da semana, por um ano e meio, eu acordei às 5h30 da manhã, escovei os dentes, tomei uma xícara de café e me sentei para escrever sobre como as mentes mais brilhantes dos últimos quatro séculos se dedicavam a essa mesma tarefa — encontrar tempo para fazer seu melhor trabalho e organizar seus horários para trabalhar de forma produtiva e criativa." O resultado é um simpático almanaque biográfico, com detalhes mundanos sobre 161 mentes geniais, e um guia de produtividade capaz de consumir alguns dias de preguiça".
Leia na íntegra AQUI.
Um livro que fica na calha para leitura futura, Daily rituals, onde o americano Mason Currey descreve os hábitos de trabalho de 161 artistas. Não sei se para bem da minha produtividade ou do meu ócio.
sexta-feira, 17 de maio de 2013
sábado, 30 de março de 2013
A book.it procura novos talentos nacionais na área da escrita
A book.it quer promover os novos talentos nacionais na área da escrita. Assim, decorre até 31 de Maio o período de candidaturas à segunda edição concurso literário book.it, que pretende promover a leitura e os autores portugueses.
Todos aqueles que têm a paixão de escrever e sonham ver um livro seu editado, têm aqui a oportunidade para converterem as suas histórias em realidades impressas.
Todos os amantes da escrita que não tenham nenhuma obra publicada e que desejem partilhar as suas histórias têm a oportunidade das suas vidas neste concurso. Os participantes podem concorrer com romances ou novelas, histórias de vida e livros de contos e ainda obras poéticas, sendo que cada concorrente apenas pode entregar um único texto inédito.
Se quer ver o seu livro editado, basta remeter por CTT a sua história original, acompanhada de sinopse, cópia do cartão de cidadão ou bilhete de identidade e ficha de inscrição preenchida, de acordo com as condições descritas no regulamento oficial.
Após a recepção das participações, seguir-se-á uma fase de análise das obras, estando esta análise a cargo de um júri composto por elementos da book.it, um elemento da Lux Woman e um elemento da Leya. O vencedor será contactado durante o mês de agosto, sendo anunciado em Novembro, aquando da edição e publicação da sua obra em livro.
Na primeira edição, que contou com cerca de 300 obras recebidas, Nuno Nepomuceno sagrou-se vencedor, com a obra «Espião Português», tendo esta história sido editada em livro pela editora ASA, parceira oficial do concurso.
O regulamento e restantes informações podem ser consultados em http://www.bookit.pt/page/concurso-literário-bookit.
Os trabalhos devem ser enviados para:
Concurso Literário book.it, Parque de Negócios de Empresas
Sonae Maia Business Center, Estrada Nacional 13 – km 6,78
Lugar do Espido – Via Norte
4470-179 Maia
Fonte: Diário Digital
quinta-feira, 28 de março de 2013
Nove citações sobre escrita de James Patterson / James Patterson: Nine Writing Quotes
Guy Cambier (1923-2008)
James Patterson: Nine Writing Quotes
- I write first thing in the morning, about 360 days a year.
- I find that I’m working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.
- Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.
- I’ve always concentrated on the product. There are very few cases where people or enterprises or franchises have succeeded unless the product is really good for that audience. [Writers] always want to hear it’s the advertising. It isn’t—it’s the product.
- As I do with all of my books, I outlined The Beach House from the beginning to end.
- I’m always pretending that I’m sitting across from somebody. I’m telling them a story, and I don’t want them to get up until it’s finished. I’m very conscious of an audience. I’m very conscious that I’m an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can’t condescend to people. You’ve got to tell them a story that they will be willing to pay money to read.
- Knowledge is valuable, but imagination is invaluable.
- People that really know me consider me to be an incredible underachiever. Because I was supposed to, you know, really write nice, serious books. And… I don’t know, got derailed, and here I am.
- If it’s commercial fiction that you want to write, it’s story, story, story. You’ve got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they’ll go, “Tell me more.” And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don’t, it won’t work.
From an interview in The Telegraph with Adam Higginbotham
Patterson is an American author who has sold an estimated 260 million books worldwide. Since 2006, one out of every 17 fiction books sold was a Patterson title.
He is the first author to have #1 new titles simultaneously on The New
York Times adult and children’s best-sellers lists. He is the only
author to have five new hard-cover novels debut at #1 on the list in one
year - a feat he’s accomplished every year since 2005. Patterson has
had 19 consecutive #1 New York Times best-selling novels, and holds the New York Times record for most Hard-cover Fiction best-selling titles by a single author (76), which is also a Guinness World Record.
quinta-feira, 21 de março de 2013
quarta-feira, 13 de fevereiro de 2013
quinta-feira, 31 de janeiro de 2013
quarta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2012
A escrita como terapia / Writing as therapy
"Writing is a form of therapy; how do all those who do not write, compose, or paint manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in the human condition?"
Graham Greene
quarta-feira, 12 de setembro de 2012
Regras para uma escrita eficiente por Kurt Vonnegut / Rules for effective writing by Kurt Vonnegut
Rules for effective writing by Kurt Vonnegut, author of Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five:
1. Use a time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel that the time was wasted.
1. Use a time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel that the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things - reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist.
7. Write to please just one person.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible.
http://www.goodnet.org/articles/358
segunda-feira, 30 de julho de 2012
domingo, 17 de junho de 2012
A combinação perfeita de palavras / The perfect combination of words
“I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful.”
Lauren Willig
quarta-feira, 21 de março de 2012
Ter uma voz / Having a voice
“Writing and being successful at it is not about being the next Ernest Hemingway. It’s about having a voice, and presenting it with passion in a way that inspires. It’s about being honest, raw, and real.”
Caroline Makepeace |
domingo, 19 de fevereiro de 2012
10 regras para escrever ficção / 10 rules for writing fiction
De Jonathan Franzen:
- The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
- Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money.
- Never use the word “then” as a conjunction – we have “and” for this purpose. Substituting “then” is the lazy or tone-deaf writer’s non-solution to the problem of too many “ands” on the page.
- Write in the third person unless a really distinctive first-person voice offers itself irresistibly.
- When information becomes free and universally accessible, voluminous research for a novel is devalued along with it.
- The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than “The Metamorphosis”.
- You see more sitting still than chasing after.
- It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
- Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
- You have to love before you can be relentless.
terça-feira, 17 de janeiro de 2012
Entre a leitura e a escrita / Between reading and writing
Ivan Olinsky (1878-1962)
“Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”
Susan Sontag
sexta-feira, 25 de novembro de 2011
Não sejas normal, conta a história que só tu podes contar / Get crazy: start telling the stories that only you can tell
“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you. Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view. There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.”
Neil Gaiman
quarta-feira, 23 de novembro de 2011
Talvez eu não escreva para ninguém / "Perhaps I write for no one"
Pierre Mornet
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
Margaret Atwood, from “The Blind Assassin” (2000)
sábado, 29 de outubro de 2011
10 citações sobre escrita criativa / 10 quotes about writing
“One day i will find the right words and they will be simple”
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sexta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2011
6 citações sobre escrita e uma mulher / 6 quotes about writing and a woman
"The Letter", Alfred Stevens
“You can’t write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don’t want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.”
“No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart’s blood.” W. Somerset Maugham No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.” E. B. White
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“Everybody who writes is engaged in the remarkable enterprise of making consciousness manifest—catching the slipperiest of substance, a thought, and nailing it to a page. It is amazing, when you think about it, that people should even try to do such a thing; that they would occasionally succeed nearly miraculous. And, indeed, there is something spiritual about the act of writing. When it’s done in a slovenly manner or in bad faith, it seems somehow sacrilegious. When it’s done well, we should stand back and regard it with a kind of reverence.”
Ben Yagoda, The Sound on the Page
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