Chris Angelis's Blog, page 27
April 4, 2020
How to Use Foreshadowing in Your Fiction
Foreshadowing is a very powerful tool for a fiction author. This literary device gives the reader advanced hints about what will occur later in the narrative. Learning how to use foreshadowing in your fiction can give you a significant boost in terms of affective power. The above description of foreshadowing might make you think its []
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March 28, 2020
Experimental Fiction: Examples and Dynamics
Experimental fiction examples arent easy to find. The thing is, experimental fiction is the kind of writing that rarely produces a commercial hit though it does so every now and then. Imagine literary fiction on LSD, and you have something like experimental fiction. But no, not all experimental fiction is literary and certainly []
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March 22, 2020
Why I Lost Faith in the Academia
Quite a nice little series I seem to be creating This is the second why I became disillusioned kind of post after that on making Android apps. Ive spent 12 years at the university as a student, researcher, and teacher. But its time to admit it: Ive lost faith in the academia; perhaps irreparably. []
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March 17, 2020
Do You Need a Degree to Be a Writer?
This question is silly ironically enough, you maybe found this post googling that very same thing Do you need a degree to be a writer? As Ive often mentioned, the answer to any headline ending with a question mark is no. This is the case here, too. No, you dont need a degree to []
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March 10, 2020
Affect in Writing: A Way of Feeling
If you searched Home for Fiction for the term “affective power”, you’d discover tons of results. I have referred to the concept of affect in writing in many of my posts – “Sounds in Literature”, “Writing and Reading Symbolism”, and “Narrative Exposition”, to name three. I now finally decided to write a proper post about […]
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March 4, 2020
Unintended Misinformation: Dynamics and Dangers
A mythological king was once asked what was his most precious asset: his health, his army, his wealth, or his offspring. “Information!” he said. “Give me information, and I can easily get back the rest”. Of course, information also comes with misinformation. And unintended misinformation, in particular, can be a very insidious, dangerous concept. Unlike […]
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February 26, 2020
Writing Criticality: Identify and Control Points of Divergence in Your Fiction
In physics, criticality refers to a nuclear reaction that is able to continue by itself. But for our purposes, I use it as a metaphor to indicate “points of no return”. In other words, points of divergence in a novel, where the plot can take two (critically) different directions. The concept of points of divergence […]
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February 20, 2020
Book Worming Party: When Literature Meets Drawing
For the past couple of months I’ve been working on a rather ambitious project. Ambition is often misunderstood, but the way I choose to approach it, it’s about doing something “just because”. It was in this “fuck it” framework that Book Worming Party, my latest programming project came to being. Book Worming Party – even […]
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February 13, 2020
When Books Write Themselves: Perspectives on Creativity
The key to writing good literature is understanding subtlety and gradation. When it comes to good fiction and great books, things are rarely binary. In other words, you can’t answer some questions with a simple yes or no. And the question do books write themselves? is precisely such a question. On the surface, the answer […]
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February 7, 2020
The Methodological Flaw of Agnosticism
Certain things are relative: Although we can say “hot” or “cold”, we can also compare, and say “hotter/colder than”. There are also things that are binary – either or. No matter what Hegelians might claim, I doubt you can be “a little bit pregnant”. In this context, an intellectually honest philosopher has to acknowledge a […]
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