Two-Body Problems: Romance as a Genre
In classical mechanics, the two-body problem has a clean, exact solution. Add a third body and the system turns chaotic, which any writer of love triangles could have told Newton for free.
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Tinta Viva – Charms
A magical realist rewriting of a passage from Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (1966)
Something Is Wrong: Horror, Structure and a Very Large Ape
Week 2 – Analysing the Horror Genre – From the journey to the chase and the role of the unheimlich.
Order, Chaos and a Box of Chocolates: Notes from Week One of Writing in Different Genres
Notes from Week 1 at Birckbeck – Writing in Different Genres. Looking at genre, layers, tones and plot.
Tinta Viva – La Enredadera Doble / The Double Vine
This time we are looking at a short allegorical writing exercise in three steps: It was then revised by cutting about 40% (stripping adjectives and explanations so the symbol carries the meaning), expanded back to… Read More »Tinta Viva – La Enredadera Doble / The Double Vine
Tinta Viva – El Camino Naraja / The Orange Path
This week in the Tinta Viva workshop we talked about The Perfume by Patrick Süskind and saw how the sense of smell is a powerful tool but now one that is exploited a lot in literature. This is partly because we may lack the language to do so; well utilised it evokes deep emotions and intense memories in the… Read More »Tinta Viva – El Camino Naraja / The Orange Path
Tinta Viva – Conflict
The task for this week was to build a short story in seven stages, moving from setting the scene and building expectation, through tension, suspense, conflict and intrigue, to an ending that resolves the conflict… Read More »Tinta Viva – Conflict
Tinta Viva – The Logic of the Absurd
This time we imagine we are talking to Time, but not in an abstract way, as a character.
Agent Skills – Install is the Easy Half
The skills CLI gives agent tooling package-manager ergonomics in a single line, and it is very good at it. Removal is another matter. Deleting the folder by hand does not do what you think, and… Read More »Agent Skills – Install is the Easy Half
Tinta Viva – Psychology and Disillusionment
This week, we talked about Flaubert and Mme Bovary. The task this time was to “reveal a character’s psychology and disillusionment through the contrast between their expectations and their reality”