【大師課】《使女的故事》瑪格麗特·阿特伍德 的創(chuàng)意寫作大師課（中英字幕）
2023-01-06 20:10 作者:FriedrichHaller | 我要投稿
- Getting Started as a Writer
- Writing Process: start with characters, voices, scenes, objects -> stories. handwriting 50 ~ 60 pages -> structure
- Finding Your Own Process: immerse
- Getting Past the Fear
- Story and Plot
- Stories Are Patterns Interrupted: break the pattern
- What Makes a Strong Plot: threat from without, within and combination
- Draw From the Stories That Have Come Before: western cultures (Greek and Roman myths, folk tales, indigenous stories, Bibel)
- Know the Essential Stories in Order to Subvert Them (Chekov: If you put a gun on the desk in the first act, it has to go off in the third.) -> expand the frame of reference
- Structuring Your Novel: Layered Narratives and Other Variations：flashback, Rashomon, detective story, time jumps (where u start, what order), two endings
- Finding the Structure Takes Time
- Frame Stroytelling in One Thousand and One Nights
- Layers of Narrative in The Blind Assassin (Narrator - Novel - Story - News)
- Start Simple
- Who Tells the Story: Narrative Point of View
- Choosing Your Point of View
- You Can Use Multiple Points of View (films and cameras)
- You Can Always Change Your Mind
- What Does Your Narrator Know? (character knows more / no more than the reader?)
- An Exercise in Point of View
- Points of View Case Studies
- POV in Alias Grace
- Finding the Right POV inthe First Draft
- The First Person as Witness in The Handmaid's Tale (Witness literature)
- Bringing Characters to Life Through Detail
- Actions Reveal Character
- What You Should Know About Your Characters (Birthday, friends, hobbies, traumatic experiences, obsessions, love etc.)
- A Tool for Character Development (months on the lefe side, years across the top; character's birthday, important world events)
- Clues for Your Readers
- Get Expert Advice on Character Accuracy
- Creating Compelling Characters
- Defying Gender Norms With Your Characters (in which historical period, at which social level, age?)
- The Joys of a Devious Character in The Robber Bride
- Villains and Unlikable Characters (William Blake, the devil has got all the good lines.)
- Be Prepared to Be Interrupted
- Writing Is Problem Solving
- Illuminating the Dark
- Get Better by Doing the Work
- Be Kind to Yourself
- Crafting Dialogue
- Real Life Conversation vs. Dialogue (intention of talking?)
- Dialogue Is Subjective
- Know Your Characters' Vernacular
- Dialogue in Alias Grace (how people have said then?)
- Revealing The World Through Sensory Imagery
- Observe the Particular (generalize and abstract)
- Use All the Senses (sight, smell, taste, sound, touch)
- Description in The Handmaid's Tale
- Repeating Imagery (Flowers -> fertility, X harmless)
- Prose Style And Texture
- Think About the Sound of Your Prose (read your text out loud, repeat->purpose)
- Types of Prose Style (Plainsong, Baroque)
- Baroque Writing
- Plainsong Writing
- Style vs. Description
- Prose Style Assignment (Write the event in a plainsong / Baroque way, imitate the style of aother writer)
- Working With Time In Fiction (circular, linear)
- Keep Your Readers Oriented
- Make Your Flashbacks Compelling
- Use the "Meanwhile" Device
- Consider Your Motives
- The Importance Of The First Five Pages
- The First Page Is a Gateway
- Writing the Beginning of The Handmaid's Tale
- Writing The Middle And Ending
- Keeping Your Reader Engaged Through the Middle
- Changes Can Happen Along the Way
- Approaching the Ending (Revision)
- Open vs. Closed Ending
- An Open Ending in The Handmaid's Tale
- Revision: Seeing Your Work Anew
- Show Your Work to Select Readers
- Fine-Tuning (Texture, punctuation marks, grammer)
- The Final Proofing of Orxy and Crake
- The Novel And The Shifting Sands Of Genre
- Forget Genre, Make Me Believe It (plot + characters)
- Speculative Fiction
- Generating Ideas for Speculative Fiction
- Stick to Your Own Rules
- The Difference Between Utopias and Dystopias
- Creating a New Species in Orxy and Crake
- Speculative Fiction Case Study: The Handmaid's Tale
- The Premise
- The Inspiration
- The Research
- The Iconography
- Research And Historical Accuracy (Write first and then research the details)
- The Importance of Accuracy
- Sources for Research (cross check and use more than one reference)
- Historical Accuracy in Alias Grace
- Unearthing the Research
- Costume Accuracy
- A Note on the History of Underpants
- The Writer's Path
- Writing Is a Vocation
- The Gift
- Artistic vs. Commercial Success
- Don't Give Up
- Take Inspiration From Robert Louis Stevenson
- Your Letter to the World (time, space)
- Your Ideal Reader
- The Business Of Being A Writer
- Getting Published
- The Question of Agents
- Know How to Talk About Your Book
- Weathering Reviews
- A Note on Second Novels
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