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Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan

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Born

Yerevan, Armenia

Website

http://gtergab.com

Genre

Fiction, Science Fiction, Memoir

Influences

William Faulkner, Hrant Matevossyan, A. and B. Strugatskie

Member Since

August 2012

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Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan contributes fiction and essays in Armenian and Russian, as well as journalism, reviews, and policy pieces in Armenian, Russian and English to a variety of media outlets, on topics ranging from literature to international relations to management to Caucasus conflict transformation and peace-building to European integration to Armenia’s development issues to etc.

He is a protagonist of the Methodology of Systemic Thought Activity (MSTA). He is a developer and editor of several handbooks and manuals. His first book of fiction and publicism in Armenian, Square Cellar, was published in 2012.

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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan 2023. There are too many types of writing for any advice to be worth for everybody. I am a writer also because I started to read early and I read a lo…more2023. There are too many types of writing for any advice to be worth for everybody. I am a writer also because I started to read early and I read a lot of fiction in childhood, adolescence, and youth. This is a known advice - read a lot, I add to that: read since childhood as long as you can, because at some point adults stop being intense readers. It is even more difficult today to become a real reader because of the internet. Anyway.
In addition, think. Thinking is not easy. What we think is thinking is usually just our psychological processes. That is not thinking. I cannot explain what is thinking in two words here, but I have written and explained what is Systemic Thought Activity elsewhere.
A part of being able to think is to be able to break taboos - particularly those taboos that the society or power impose on us not to allow for creativity and freedom to flourish. Do not break the taboo 'thou shalt not kill,' but break taboos concerning (nonviolent) sex, rituals, and imagining negative turn of events (that the peer pressure wants to prohibit you from imagining) alongside with the positive one. Overcome peer pressure, societal pressure, and power pressure.
Stereotypes are small taboos. Stereotypes are ubiquitous, they are not just about race, ethnicity, gender, etc. If you have not imagined the phenomenon behind any word, any notion, you will use that word as a stereotype. Imagine phenomena behind notions, use untypical formulations. Many people say journalism is a good school for fiction writing. I am not at all sure about that. In my opinion, journalism is often full of stereotypes and stereotyping in the sense that I said above, whereas fiction writing is about describing the world anew, with new, unusual words and sentences, rather than using the existing stereotypes.
Wrestle with language. Best fiction that I like may be written in a flowless style, an adventures book or Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita," or written with a complex language, like Faulkner or Dostoievskiy, but in any case best fiction prose is a result of wrestling with language; but such that the readers do not feel it when they read your book.

Learn all your life, using particularly reflection, introspection: why are you like that, how to better achieve one's goals, how do you change over time, what did you understand and conclude about the past, about life?

Don't be upset if they don't like your writing or if it does not generate acclaim, but at the same time don't be arrogant and self-centered, and look for a bit of a lesson from every criticism.

That's enough for now.

I like the writings of writers, from whose writings I can feel that they possess the above qualities. These writers are a bit like me. I am not too much of an omnivore, there are many good writings that may be assessed as excellent by many people but they leave me personally unperturbed. This is very subjective. (less)

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan 2023. Many major occurrences of my life become plots of my books. In general, I do not distinguish clearly my life from the lives around me, the ones …more2023. Many major occurrences of my life become plots of my books. In general, I do not distinguish clearly my life from the lives around me, the ones I know about. They are all interconnected - my own life as well as those that I see closely - those of my nearest and dearest - and those that I see en passant merely because we happen to pass each other in this big life.(less)

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	Յաթաղան սինդրոմ 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Դեպի վեր: Հայ ֆանտաստ գրողների պատմվածքների ժողովածու by Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan (Goodreads Author), Arsen Tavadyan, Lilith Manaryan 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Անաստված կինո թատրոն 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Հանդուրժողականության և անհանդուրժողականության դրսևորումները հայ գրականության մեջ by Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan (Goodreads Author), Anush Margaryan, Isabella Sargsyan (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Հրապարակ նկուղ by Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan (Goodreads Author), Նատալի Հարությունյան (Illustrator), Հակոբ Հովհաննիսյան (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Հրանտ it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Armenia 3.0 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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