Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different (edición 2021)por Chuck Palahniuk (Autor)
Información de la obraConsider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different por Chuck Palahniuk
Writing (90) Cargando...
InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. From the author of Fight Club and other works, this is a loose collection of writing tips and advice, much of it drawn from Palahniuk’s own experiences, some of it borrowed from the pages or experiences of other writers of fiction. The bits are held in loose collections titled Textures, Tension, Process and so on. Between these chapters Palahniuk offers Postcards from the Tour - entertaining stories that illustrate the highs, lows, dangers, and practicalities of book tours. I listened to the audiobook version then read bits in a hardcopy of the book later. Both are loaded with useful items and for anyone writing fiction are well worth a listen/look. In Textures, for example, Palahniuk divides the collection into subsections such as The Three Types of Communication (alternate description, instruction, exclamation), Big Voice vs Little Voice (big voice gives meaning; small voice delivers facts), Mix First, Second and Third Person Points of View (shift between all three, Palahniuk says) etc. While the book is rich with ideas, navigating through them isn’t the easiest. There is no handy index to help readers find something specific, a handicap for a book of this nature. A bit short and lacking in direction, this does contain enough useful thoughts that I'll probably buy a copy (I read the library copy this time). Veers occaisonally into pretentiousness and/or self-congratulation which might be inevitable due to the semi-memoir nature but behind all that there's lessons worth learning. Some of this advice was applicable and very useful. Some of it was very specific to the author's style of writing (Minimalism). A lot of it was things I'd heard before, but phrased better and with practical advice attached. Either way it was a very fun and entertaining read that left me feeling closer to the author and inspired to write. Review now available in Volume 25 Number 2 Summer 2020 (#98) of Rain Taxi Review of Books. https://www.raintaxi.com/volume-25-number-2-summer-2020-98/ sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Tras más de dos décadas dedicado a la escritura, el aclamado autor de El club de la lucha ha decidido compartir su sabiduría y sus años de experiencia en el arte de contar historias. Palahniuk revela los conocimientos que él mismo ha ido acumulando con los años, gracias a su gran capacidad de observación, a los talleres literarios en los que se formó, y a los escritores y maestros que, como Tom Spanbauer, influyeron en su obra. Palahniuk nos regala una sólida guía práctica para construir y desarrollar una novela (con propuestas únicas que no aparecen en los manuales de escritura), y nos habla de los tipos de personajes que conforman una trama, de la escritura como terapia o de cómo implicar al lector para que empatice con la narración. Las ideas que plantea incluyen desde consejos prácticos y ejemplos de obras clásicas y de sus propios libros, hasta un sinfín de anécdotas y recuerdos de su vida como escritor y de sus años de tours literarios por el mundo. Esta obra, destinada a convertirse en un referente de los libros sobre la escritura, es una lúcida, sensible y experta carta de amor al oficio de escritor." -- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)818.5403Literature English (North America) Authors, American and American miscellany 20th Century 1945-1999 DiariesClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
The biographical parts are the same blend of funny, shocking and insightful as his books usually are - which is way above the cut on the usually stumbling and navelgazing material in the books of other authors. Something about the self-reflection seems to demolish the author's usual style normally.
Recommended. ( )