• I think I am ready to learn how to write. Think with words, not with ideas.

• • Write
   
  • Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
   
  • Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
   
  • Put it aside. Read it pretending you've never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.
   
  • Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
   
  • Fix it. Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
   
  • Laugh at your own jokes.
   
  • The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it ­honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

• Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it.
• Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.
• Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

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• 1- Levedad.
• citando a Valéry, “Hay que ser ligero como el pájaro, no como la pluma”
• 2.- Rapidez.
• tanto es más nítida y poderosa la imagen que se forma cuanto menos preámbulos toma
• chispa
• no significa precipitarse, sino ser preciso
• apresúrate despacio
• 3- Exactitud.
• La búsqueda de le mot juste no es sólo un sibaritismo estilístico, es la piedra de toque de todo el edificio literario.
• la extensión idónea
• 4.- Visibilidad.
• comunica por imágenes.
• 5.- Multiplicidad.
• El libro del todo es aquél en el que todo (el hombre, el árbol, la piedra) habla con su propia voz.
• 6- Consistencia
• solidez estructural detrás del movimiento
• onsistencia de las imágenes
• crear un universo consistente,

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  Brainstorming for Non-fiction Writing

        

   

       

   

      

      

  Effective brainstorming can be the difference between successful writing and not writing at all! This creative skill can get aspiring writers up and running

   

  Stephen Clarke

  Aug 18, 2012

  

  Have you ever wondered why despite your extensive knowledge of topics and themes, work experience and general intelligence, you still struggle to get an article, essay or non-fiction book up and running? Of all the possible reasons, ineffective brainstorming may be one. Brainstorming is in essence, creative, dynamic reflection. The quality of your brainstorming is important, and may be affected by the quality of your reflective intelligence. But don’t worry, reflective intelligence can be enhanced and honed, and for the aspiring writer, brainstorming can serve the role of identifying topics, identifying sub-topics, and extrapolating pre-existing ideas.

   

  Perhaps you have been successful writing in high school or university. I know people who can write brilliant university essays and research papers. Ironically, this doesn’t guarantee that they can write autonomously. Some people flourish when the essay structure is scaffolded by a set of guidelines and recommendations, only to find that when the scaffolding has been removed, they don’t have the creative reflection skills necessary to tap into their experience base and create a writing structure from scratch. The good news here, if you find yourself in this category, is that as the skill of writing has usually proven itself to exist, once your brainstorming technique has improved, and working titles start rolling in thick and fast, everything takes care of itself. Sometimes all that’s required is to unlock the barriers to creative brainstorming.

   

  Three-step process

   

  Step 1
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  Brainstorming for Non-fiction Writing

        

   

       

   

      

      

  Effective brainstorming can be the difference between successful writing and not writing at all! This creative skill can get aspiring writers up and running

   

  Stephen Clarke

  Aug 18, 2012

  

  Have you ever wondered why despite your extensive knowledge of topics and themes, work experience and general intelligence, you still struggle to get an article, essay or non-fiction book up and running? Of all the possible reasons, ineffective brainstorming may be one. Brainstorming is in essence, creative, dynamic reflection. The quality of your brainstorming is important, and may be affected by the quality of your reflective intelligence. But don’t worry, reflective intelligence can be enhanced and honed, and for the aspiring writer, brainstorming can serve the role of identifying topics, identifying sub-topics, and extrapolating pre-existing ideas.

   

  Perhaps you have been successful writing in high school or university. I know people who can write brilliant university essays and research papers. Ironically, this doesn’t guarantee that they can write autonomously. Some people flourish when the essay structure is scaffolded by a set of guidelines and recommendations, only to find that when the scaffolding has been removed, they don’t have the creative reflection skills necessary to tap into their experience base and create a writing structure from scratch. The good news here, if you find yourself in this category, is that as the skill of writing has usually proven itself to exist, once your brainstorming technique has improved, and working titles start rolling in thick and fast, everything takes care of itself. Sometimes all that’s required is to unlock the barriers to creative brainstorming.

   

  Three-step process

   

  Step 1
• self-confidence, common sense, and an environment that is judgement-free,
• audience
• an environment that is judgement-free
• self-confidence
• self-confidence, common sense, and an environment that is judgement-free
• dentifying topics, identifying sub-topics, and extrapolating pre-existing ideas.
• brainstorming begins essentially with self-confidence, common sense, and an environment that is judgement-free
• to fuel this initial stage.
• brainstorming can be based,
• , on:
• • personal observations
  • the observations of others
  • experiences
  • thoughts
  • philosophies and ideologies
  • work experience
  • studies
  • areas of knowledge and extensive research/reading
• refinement
• scratching of the surface.
• key questions,
• What starts off as one brainstormed idea can often result in a variety of topics
• might the writing make to the topic area?
• audience
• audience
• brainstorming has matured into a full idea and a series of key questions and or sub-topics
• pragmatic aspects
• final decisions a
• common guided brainstorming questions
• What contribution
• Should the writing be
• audience
• the writing be interesting, challenging, and supportive for the audience
• feasible,
• How might other writers have contributed to this topic

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• What ISN’T Interesting?
• What Makes Writing Interesting?
• • Rhythm
• When You Write, Ask, “What Is Interesting About This?”

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• ne third of the human brain is dedicated to vision. So trying to make the reader “see” is a good goal and being concrete has huge effects
• to be conversational
• a majority of undergraduates admit to deliberately increasing the complexity of their vocabulary so as to give the impression of intelligence
• Have someone else read your work and tell you if it makes sense to them
• Tell the reader what your point is. And tell them early.

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