Sunday, May 8, 2011

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Meeting at the International Book Fair, writers

Hello
Monday morning I'll be in the International Book Fair, yay!

my turn to meet with readers and sign copies of my book. It is in the byline stand of 11 to 12 in the morning.

Besitos.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

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We all face the blank sheet. We wrote our stories, and often we were fairly satisfied with the result. Sometimes I look to the expression of the viewer's worst disasters.



We want to correct, fix, polish and we feel lost. Getting started It really can be better? Yes . It is at this point that the narrative techniques are our lifeline.
The style of each writer is unique. And once you have purchased may tell their stories as you want. But for a beginning writer is in the midst of a storm of feelings and doubts, it is better to follow certain rules when editing text and, once mastered, break. But only when the masters perfectly.



There will be people who disagree with this position, no doubt, and advocates more freedom and spontaneity. Sounds good. Not everyone used the same thing. My intention here is to share what I think can help me because this might help others who are in the same situation as me: trying to improve your writing every day. Struggling to see dream come true: to see our published books on the shelves.

Before sharing the first tips, hehe, cosmostyle , I would note three things. First, all these tips, you can apply after we have finished the text. When we are writing is not good or even think about those things. Write, you'll have time to correct later. The second is that some tips seem simple things, things that do not pay attention, but definitely apply them can take a bad text a. .. well, not bad ... and a good text, a. .. excellent.
The third is that this does not mean I'm an expert in these things. I make many of these errors, but I strive every day to put the duckling no where and I have been told or read that I did not get. Those warnings have obtained from the various books that I find useful and some of these books is what I will share here in this series Ticket-holders Help for writers.

The first tips is: The logical order of sentences

Although the English language is very broad and can construct sentences with enough freedom, freedom does not mean license. When we correct our texts look at the logical order of sentences . When we do not have as much experience as writers and we feel that a paragraph is confused, entangled, or already have read it to someone and said that we misunderstand what we mean, we should refer to the sintaxis simple y llana. Orden , orden , orden : sujeto, verbo, complemento directo, complemento indirecto, y por último pondremos el circunstancial. 

Por ejemplo: 


Isabel , reina de Inglaterra , ha concedido , la independencia a Ghana no hace mucho tiempo . 

Es una oración sencilla, comprensible, clara. Perfecta.
No respetar el orden de los elementos of a sentence is one of the things that most young writers do, then do not understand why others do not understand us. Are all the words! But they are messy . An example of a sentence cluttered:

not find - the kidnappers - the police - Juanito child.

Well ... yes, we perceive that they are talking, but is confused, not beautiful. Ideally:

Police have not found the child's abductors Juanito.

Now I invite you to take a story I just wrote, and analyze their prayers. You can use different colored markers. Follow a logical order your prayers? You're stuck with the syntax as a shell to the snail? Have your prayers that order we have just seen? No? Try to change that aspect. Then, reread the story and notice the difference.

Well, I hope I made myself understood, I hope this useful. It's very simple, but if we apply it to our first stories, see the results, you will notice the difference, the better. At first it will be heavy, but with practice, we will more and more easy.
In future entries we will touch more complex issues such as spatially, temporarily, the level of reality, the characterization of characters, the current of thought, etc.

Well, au revoir!





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"My sister lives on the mantelpiece" Annabel Pitcher

Information Note: we move step by step at the entrance to one hundredth and first year of your life of this humble blog. Gradually you will see changes. Will be gradual and subtle. Nothing to change the look of the blog ... mostly because I do not know how. Today we start with dedications, because the beauty of books is to make you think of people.

My sister lives on the mantelpiece , Annabel Pitcher, ed. Siruela , 2011

may like this book very much Alendax .
Because behind all venomous, there is a sentimental.
Plot Summary
caught the back of the book.

been five years since Rose died in an Islamic terrorist attack in central London. Her heman Jamie, ten years, has not yet been able to mourn, but he knows he should do so because his whole family did. Things are not going well at all since then: his father drinks increasingly, his mother has abandoned them, Jasmine, Rose's twin has stopped eating and Jamie have many questions that no one responds. But one day, a television ad that makes you dream about things back the way they were ... Eve

Sant Jordi. We are the representative of the distributor "Les Punxes" which is in charge moving to the editorial Siruela for Catalunya. She presents the book by Annabel Pitcher saying it Siruela safe bet for the season and that he considers a very good novel. We trust and we ordered. The books arrive each week. He caught me and aired in a few hours with gusto and enthusiasm. Result?

Although the story they tell me and know me, I can not state that this is one of the novels I've read this year I enjoyed the most (note, not saying it's the best ... and is different). And I fall rendered before this odd mix of melodrama, social novel, black humor and history learning.

The story told in the novel is not original. Ni even thousands of different books, films, series and comics. The world from the viewpoint of a child, broken family, attempts to re-compose, overcoming trauma, dangerous liaisons between members of different cultures, drama at school, public catharsis and reconciliation efforts spectacular. All items are readily available, but pitcher plays Annabel subvert. For example, the talent and sense in the novel. Plays with the reader's expectations that so many end in contests, proms, point I do want to say has seen and read to give you a trick and bring this situation to reality. Or the same end ... things are finished and need not be fixed ... simply are, and must live with them.

whole story is told from the point of view of Jamie, a ten year old boy who attends the collapse of his family and is forced to live with the memory of a dead sister in a terrorist attack; sister she certainly does not remember. This could result in a tear melodrama easy, thanks to great success elusive tone that Annabel Pitcher gives to his novel, a sharp and sometimes very black humor.

admit without shame that I am of the faction she was laughing with the first pages of the novel (those that explain how the parents have shared pieces of Rose) and kept a smile on much of the story. A cynical style, ironically innocent, full of bad grapes that makes the hard drive less, but more oil and a very healthy distance is not cloying the reader with the feeling of the novel. Because it is a novel about the death of loved ones, the loss of confidence, the end of love, alcoholism, racism and paranoia. But thanks to that style ironic Pitcher worked well, the novel saves all sentimental pitfalls to build a very exciting literary discourse, in the best sense of the word.

Because the novel thrill. Especially in the relationship with her sister Jamie Rose and Sunya, this wonderful girl who I wish were in my school as more of a beating would have saved me. Well constructed and believable characters, alive to a reader who empathizes with Jamie. Her desire to live, to have a normal family (as if that existed), to recover his mother ... The author is with respect to children and adolescents and avoids a moralizing tone, paternalistic or condenscendiente. The appropriate style and tone over everything.

Peros "? A story too well known, some duplication ... little more ...

Moments "? The school, a place that despite the years is still hell. And My sister lives ... knows perfectly recreate the experience of a child being bullied in their school. For me the hardest scenes are lived within the walls of the school. But while the child is where you can feel more alone.

My sister lives on the mantelpiece is one of the most enjoyable and recommendable surprises this season. A novel that moves in the right direction, that amuses, entertains and it hurts. And the debut of a writer who sharpening the style might do great things.

Oh and do not forget me, like good writers know, Annabel Pitcher has built a beautiful symbol that structures the whole novel ... And is that a Spiderman t-shirt in the hands of a talented writer is more than a Spiderman shirt. Who read it, you know.


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