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What I learned from Dan Browns Free MasterClass Session
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“If you can sit down and write, you’re nowhere near the end of your ability. […] I wasn’t born knowing this [writing] I learned it by making mistakes, reading writers who do it much better than I do and saying, wow I love the way they do that, I want to pull that into what I do.”
– Dan Brown
“Protect the process and the results will take care of themselves”: Writing is 90% routine and just 10% inspiration – a marathon, not a sprint! Create a space in which you can be creative.
“Make it important to yourself”: Writing has to be a project, a priority which importance you have to enforce with yourself and your surroundings. And sometimes that’s hard and uncomfortable.
“every story has been told”: We know the hero will safe the day, but it’s all about how things happen! You get a template on which you can apply your creativitiy and voice.
“be honest with your reader”: creative liberties are alright (e.g. in historical fiction), but you have to be upfront with your reader about what is accurate according to your research and what is your creativity.
“the three C’s” for great stories: clock (time pressure, e.g. a time bomb), crucible (a box that encloses the action, restrain characters and make them face their demons, e.g. a sinking boat), contract (every page should be a promise to the reader: “I know something you don’t know and if you turn the page I promise I will tell you”).
“sticking to the right POV let’s you play fair with the reader in withholding information”: omniscient narrators owe it to the reader to spill a secret the POV character knows – if somebody has a secret that shouldn’t be told yet, stick to another POV
“whichever character has the most to loose, that’s the one you write from”: whoever is the most emotionally stimulated, just found out something upsetting or is in danger, tends to be the most interesting POV.
“I wanna do this better tomorrow”: If something doesn’t work out at first, come back later and give it more creativity, tell yourself that you can make it better to stay motivated, take it as a challenge!
“The way you spark creativity is to empty your mind”: meditation, taking a walk in nature, turn of television/smartphone, whatever let’s you be blank, your mind doesn’t like to be empty, so it will make something to fill itself up.
“Setting the table for breakfast”: Before you end your writing session, start the first paragraph for the next session – it will keep you from going back and being stuck on the last things you wrote.
“You always want people looking in the wrong direction”: Never underestimate your reader! They can tell that the person the author is shining a spotlight on is the red herring. Create a second red herring character on the sidelines who the reader could pick up on as the villain.
“The Michaelangelo way of writing”: At the first stage of writing start with many clues, make sure all the information is there. You can take unnecessary or overdone clues away during editing. It’s easier to take things away than it is to add them.
“I’m always trying to get out of a scene before it’s over”: rather than wraping everything up in a nice bow – get out before the bow is tied. A later chapter can tie up the bow of something that happened a few chapters back! You’re simultaneously solving a problem and posing a new problem. Introduce and answer questions as you go to keep things satisfying. It’s all about tension and release.
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Take notes..better yet....write a note to yourself!..Cuz this is how it's done. Masterclass..take a bow ladies! Dayum!
Ricordatevi che sono persone prima di essere Dominatori
Ricordatevi che hanno un anima (anche se a volte non sembra) ricordatevi che la punizione educativa per noi è un dolore carnale per loro un dolore mentale
Ricordatevi che per quanto severi, esigenti, freddi, ecc possono essere hanno un cuore ed esso può essere spezzato con facilità come il nostro anzi forse ancora più .
Li chiamiamo cattivi quando dopo aver fatto un danno ci troviamo sulle ginocchia a piangere con il lato B all aria.
Ma seriamente, il dolore che sentano loro vedendo noi piangere è molto più forte ed aggressivo del nostro
La loro preoccupazione,la loro gelosia,il loro ESSERE anche se noi non ci pensiamo ci fa da scudo nei nostri momenti bui perché loro sono i nostri protettori,sono i nostri punti di riferimento.
Non siamo solo spogli delle nostre vesti ai loro occhi,siamo spogli anche nelle emozioni perché capiranno sempre cosa c'è che va e che non va.
Anche se a volte ci fanno innervosire, arrabbiare, irritare e tutto andremo sempre da loro per un consiglio,per un parere o anche solo per usarlo come cuscino notturno con 50 gradi all'ombra e nonostante gli possa fare caldo non ci scacceranno mai via.
Dopo una punizione non ci vieteranno mai le famose coccole perché quelle non sono terapeutiche solo per noi ma anche per loro, la nostra lontananza la risentono come noi sentiamo la loro, il post punizione all'angolo dove stiamo singhiozzando come delle o dei bambini per loro è un po' una tortura perché vorrebbero solo venire lì ed abbracciarci.
La loro freddezza nelle punizioni è subita più da loro che da noi.
Noi siamo la luna e loro i lupi e se ci fate caso (per chi abita in campagna o in una zona montuosa come Heidi) ogni sera il lupo va ad ululare alla luna per dirgli "anche se mi fai impazzire io sono qui"