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“Another Bridge to Cross.”
“The Barbarians.”
I tell this story as an example of what can be done with small personal experiences—if they are emotional ones.
It is amusing to let the imagination play with such incidents as a
Φαντασιακό και ΠΑΙΧΝΙΔΙ.
Other experiences are quieter.
It is much easier to create from positive, affectionate emotions than from negative and hateful ones.
Σημαντικότατο σημείο!
Jealousy,
most resembles the disease cancer, eating away an...
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The writer will seize on even the smallest, and turn it to use if he can.
To feel emotion, it is not necessary to show it, of course, and in fact showing it may lose a little of it, from a creative point of view.
Ενδιαφέρον!
Creative people do not pass moral judgments—at least not at once—on what meets their eye.
art essentially has nothing to do with morality, convention or moralizing.
Άρα η Highsmith ενστερνίζεται την νιτσεική θέωρηση περί Τέχνης.
Writers and painters have by nature little in the way of protective shells and try all their lives to remove what they have, since various buffetings and impressions are the material they need to work from.
This receptivity, this awareness of life, is an artist’s ideal,
Εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρον- Το ''Ιδεώδες του Καλλιτέχνη''.
this is why creative people are called, sociologically, classless.
''Α-ταξικοί'' συγγραφεις;
For writers with fertile imaginations, suspense short story writing is a splendid way to broaden their field and increase income.
what is the difference between a suspense short story and a suspense novel?
ΠΡΟΣΟΧΗ-ΣΗΜΑΝΤΙΚΟΤΑΤΟ!
suspense novel usually, though not always, covers a longer span of time:
In the novel, there is often also a drastic change in the hero or heroine, and maybe in several characters: their characters d...
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There is time for change of mood and change of pace. There is scope for more than one viewpoint.
They are not essential ingredients, only characteristics.
The suspense short story germ may well start with the flimsiest fact,
A suspense short story may have only one scene and take place in five minutes or less.
Bits of unusual information that a writer may come upon while browsing through technical books can often be the nucleus of a story which will sell and provide a few minutes’ entertainment for the reader.
I would go back into the valley and I would tell them, in order to remove the fear, that I had killed the strange animal. But I would also tell them that his body had gone into the river and I had not been able to identify it. For I knew now. Mankind needs its strange animals, its myths and legends and old tales, in order to objectify man’s fears outside of himself where he can fight them with man’s courage and man’s hope. For man is the strangest animal of all.
The bit I have quoted might be called a comment by the writer.
It is not necessary to the action, but it...
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Αυτό σημαίνει ''σχόλιο του συγγραφέα''.
It is the kind of thought a poet...
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but there is nothing “poetic” about this thought, it is s...
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