CREATING THE CHARACTERS OF YOUR BOOK (OR STORY)

That’s undoubtedly one of the most important things in your book. You must create some characters (or at least one).

Let’s see what we can do. Once again, don’t feel afraid of stealing or borrowing from your favorite writer’s characters or some favorite actor’s traits.

First things first: Is your character an animal, human or something else? You don’t have to make sense in a literal way, remember?

Is your character a woman? 

How does she look like? 

LET ME ASK YOU SOME QUESTIONS:

Is she blonde or brunette?

Does she have short hair?

What does she do? Is she a cop?

Does she have superpowers?

Where does she live? Does she live under the water; in an alternative world?

Or does she live in a normal neighborhood? 

Does she run like a crazy woman? 

Okay, maybe she runs with a white dog in her arms? 

Does the dog have superpowers? Lol

No, wait. Does she live in outer space? Is she connected to someone? (maybe George Clooney?) Lol

Oh, no. she is a gorgeous woman! She dresses like a modern lady:

… but maybe she puts her makeup and scares people in the evening. Maybe just for fun… lol or maybe she fights crime. Yes, she wants to save the whole world. 

No. wait. I know it. She is a very traditional woman. she's an ordinary girl. She wears long dresses...  

…or she walks completely naked around the city.

Or maybe, she’s just a cowgirl.

Or Batman’s mother.        

Or she’s just like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, who starts as a man and finishes as a woman.

 Let’s forget about the jokes (at least for a while), but once you have decided who your main character is, you will have to give them (or her) life.

Next thing is: what places does she visit? Where does she live? What kind of dreams does she have? What tools does she use?

Use your imagination: Include everything you would like her to do as if it has already happened (in real life, for instance). Take the qualities of your favorite people, friends, relatives, or even your enemies. Yes, enemies! Why not?

Most important things: when you are writing a story, you should actually try to let your readers know who your main character is in his world.

List things they do: hobbies, qualities, obsessions, etc.

I hope you liked it. See you next time! 

“You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.” ― Tom Robbins

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GOOGLE PLAY…PLAYING WITH US.

I have quite recently found a blog about technology, Google things and the like. In my free time, I always try to relax in a way that I can always learn a thing or two.

If you have nothing better or more productive to do right now, take a look at those “tricks” here:

Type elgoog on Google and you will see an “inverted mirror”:

Do you want to play a game (An old game)?  Type atari breakout:

Enough, enough… the game is too boring? Okay, then. Now you should type Do a barrel roll. Let’s see what happens.    

Okay. Now we have wasted way too much free time. I have to go now. I’m reading a book and I have no time for things like those ones. Jesus… Google stuff, really? Lol.

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CHUCK NORRIS JOKES #1.

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep at night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.

THE PROBLEM WITH REALITY IS IT’S SO EASY TO SEE.

Here I am again. Now, let’s open another door, okay? Don’t be afraid of trying new things.

It takes extra effort and imagination to explore your own mind in order to write a story. Sometimes you may want to write about reality, but sometimes you may not.

It is terrible when you want to write about something, but you have no idea about the subject! All you can do is try to explore the innumerable subjects that are possible. You can write about technology in your stories. Many writers have imagined that. It is known that in the near future, technology, or the progress in technology, will be almost spooky, as smartphones seem to do incredible things. Maybe they will read their owner’s mind, I don’t know!

How about this: start writing about the way you see the future. It doesn’t have to make sense in a literal way, remember?

Let’s practice a little bit. Write five lines about the way you see the future, say, in ten years’ time. Envision something radically new. Mention all technology available in that future.

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NEVER FORGET: You have permission to borrow and steal from other people’s idea of the future. Use theirs for inspiration in order to build your own world. Take George Orwell’s 1984 as an example.

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[Writing] WRITING IS CRYING OUT TO BE SHAPED, OR CREATED.

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you might have realized that I have been writing about writing. That’s right, writing, or the art of creating or even shaping the wor(l)d around us.

I’m a literature lover. I love reading and writing about everything. I have my favorite genre, writer, poem, book, short story and so on. I bet you the reader have the same things. It’s quite difficult to meet someone who does not have a favorite book. Even if you have read only one book, you have a favorite one, right? Even if you don’t like reading, I bet you have read at least one book in your life. (If you have never read a book in your life, let me tell how miserable I imagine your life is).

I’m absolutely certain—especially if you are an English language teacher or learner—that you have, at least once in your life, considered the idea of taking the risk of trying to write a letter or a short message in English. (I’m obviously taking into account that you are not an English native speaker).

I would like to challenge you guys. Have you ever considered the idea of writing about your world? Let me make myself clear here: I don’t expect you to make sense of everything. At least not in a literal way.

Your imagination might let you find out incredible things. Especially things that you could have never imagined before.

I will take the risk of making some mistakes – both in my writing and ideas – but I don’t care. I don’t give a damn! As I’m writing a new book right now, I need to let my thoughts just go away, and if they find home in some of my readers’ mind, I will be very happy!

Maybe some parts of my writing sound completely ridiculous and absurd, or even strange and magical. I don’t know. Once again, I don’t care! I will try to write as much as I can and make the most of my words.

In my next post, I will be writing about creating your own writing (style). I hope you join me in this long and winding road. This magical journey. Can I count on you?

P.s.: The aim of my next post about the subject mentioned before is rather simple: Keep My Mind Active in a Child-Like Way.

OPEN THIS FIRST DOOR AND FIND OUT WHAT I HAVE IN MY WOR(L)D.  

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Eventos em Letras: V SELL – Simpósio Internacional de Estudos Linguisticos e Literários.

O SELL é um evento do curso de Letras da UFTM, por isso a sua organização é de responsabilidade de professores e alunos de suas três habilitações: Língua Portuguesa, Língua Espanhola e Língua Inglesa. O curso de Letras, criado em 2006, tem por missão, ao final de quatro anos, a formação de um professor com conhecimento das questões da linguagem, da literatura em língua portuguesa e línguas estrangeiras.

Com a aprovação do Mestrado Profissional em Letras da UFTM – aprovado pela CAPES em 2014 –, acreditamos que esse compromisso foi reforçado. Por isso, a comissão organizadora escolheu, para o V SELL, um tema relacionado a um eixo de formação do PROFLETRAS: Teorias de Linguagens: pesquisa e ensino. Ao escolhê-lo, buscamos compor uma programação que possibilite a construção de respostas para os seguintes questionamentos: quais teorias e reflexões estamos produzindo do campo dos estudos da linguagem? Quais pesquisas e conhecimentos estão sendo produzidos com vistas à formação de professores? Como estão sendo aliadas teorias e práticas?

Para manter o sentido e o objetivo da interrogação sobre como estamos aliando, na universidade contemporânea, as questões relacionadas às teorias de linguagens, pesquisa e ensino, foram convidados especialistas que possuem trabalhos relevantes na intersecção do tema geral. Ou seja, tais especialistas foram chamados para discutir: i) a crise na contemporaneidade, linguagens e processos de formação; ii) o ensino da literatura; iii) aquisição de língua materna e ensino; iv)  políticas públicas e linguísticas para línguas estrangeiras; v) estudos linguísticos de libras e português como L2 para surdos; vi) relações internacionais: língua e cultura; vii)  a relação entre arte, cultura e educação e; viii) o PROFLETRAS como proposta formadora de professores da área de linguagem.

Associando atividades artístico-culturais ao tema relações internacionais, língua e cultura, a Central de Idiomas Modernos (CIM), para comemorar os seus 20 anos, junto com o Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras estarão à frente de uma discussão sobre a relação interdependente entre os conceitos de língua e cultura, tendo em vista o contexto de internacionalização vivenciado pelas universidades federais, em face do surgimento de programas que incentivam que seus estudantes realizem parte de seus estudos no exterior, tais como “Ciência sem fronteiras” e “Cultura sem fronteira”. Do mesmo modo, nos interessará discutir a importância que o acesso às línguas estrangeiras representam atualmente para o ensino superior brasileiro.

O intuito principal da comissão organizadora, ao propor esta programação para o V SELL, é problematizar as produções contemporâneas em campos da Linguistica, Literatura e Línguas estrangeiras (espanhola e inglesa) e suas relações, aproximações e afastamentos das áreas de ensino. Em suma, o aprofundamento das pesquisas teóricas ligadas às áreas de ensino nesses campos faz aumentar a necessidade de criação e/ou manutenção de espaços de interlocução com e entre pesquisadores nacionais e internacionais interessados nessas questões. Por meio dessas interlocuções tornam-se mais consistentes as nossas próprias conclusões acerca das concepções (teóricas, de pesquisa e ensino) desenvolvidas nos contextos local, nacional e internacional.

A comissão organizadora do V SELL

http://www.letrasuftm.com.br/sell/?page_id=3233 

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EVENTOS EM LETRAS: VII SEPEXLE – SEMINÁRIO DE PESQUISA E EXTENSÃO EM LETRAS.

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Apresentamos a 7ª edição do SEPEXLE – Seminário de Pesquisa e Extensão em Letras. Este evento é uma ação do Colegiado de Letras da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz e tem como objetivo promover as pesquisas e as ações de extensão realizadas no curso de Letras. Portanto, serão bem-vindos os participantes que desejem apresentar trabalhos desenvolvidos na Iniciação Científica, no TCC, no PIBID, na Especialização e no Mestrado. Os participantes poderão submeter trabalho para apresentação e, após o evento, artigos completos para publicação em anais.

O VII Sepexle ocorrerá dias 13 e 14 de maio de 2015, na Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia.

COMISSÃO ORGANIZADORA

Prof. Dr. Eduardo Lopes Pires

Prof. Msc. Juan Facundo Sarmiento

Profa. Msc. Raquel da Silva Ortega

Prof. Msc. Wolney Gomes Almeida

Camargo Deyvid Vitor dos Santos

Eliane da Nóbrega Fragôso

Evelyn Almeida

Giselle Bomfim Cerqueira

John Lenon Santos Santana

Kamilla Souza Santana

Nahendi Almeida Mota

Renato Gonçalves Peruzzo

Yuri Andrei Batista Santos

COMITÊ CIENTÍFICO

André Luis Mitidieri Pereira

Arlete Vieira da Silva

Eduardo Lopes Piris

Elaine Cristina Medeiros Frossard

Elida Paulina Ferreira

Gessilene Silveira Kanthack

Givanildo Silva Santos

Gloria de Fátima Lima dos Santos

Inara de Oliveira Rodrigues

Ione Barbosa

Isaías Francisco de Carvalho

Juan Facundo Sarmiento

Laura de Almeida

Lenilza Teodoro dos Santos Mendes

Ludmila Scarano Coimbra

Melquisedeque Oliveira Silva Almeida

Nair Andrade Floresta Neta

Patricia Argôlo Rosa

Paula Regina Siega

Raquel da Silva Ortega

Reheniglei Araújo Rehem

Rodrigo Camargo Aragão

Tatiany Pertel Sabaini Dalben

Wolney Gomes Almeida

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