Post by account_disabled on Dec 20, 2023 2:29:55 GMT -6
Dog in mixed techniqueWriting is also experimentation. It's not me who says it, but Gianni Rodari. In his fantastic book The Grammar of Imagination the author provides an endless array of ideas for writing. It is thanks to this book that I was able to prepare my Christmas story. I had to produce a 300 word story, but I had no ideas, except that the setting had to be Christmas. I didn't want the usual good-natured, politically correct Santa Claus story. I wanted something different. Here the binomial of fantasy , even if in my case the difference between the two elements is not so enormous, stated by Rodari comes in handy for me and the blank sheet of paper suddenly becomes full of words.
The story is suddenly ready in your head. Why not combine the Italian Christmas tradition with Icelandic folklore? Why not structure the story like Cormac McCarthy's dark novel The Dark Outside ? What could ever arise from this mixture? The structure of the story includes two points of view: the protagonist of the story, who appears in the second scene, and the Special Data supporting characters - but also their protagonists - who arrive first. As in the novel mentioned above, the supporting characters move in a sort of fantastic landscape and the italicized text accentuates their estrangement from the rest of the world. It follows, with a pause created by an empty space, the life of the protagonist.
The former are energetic characters and each of their episodes is equivalent to a day. The other is an old man and what we read about him happens on the same day. His life progresses slowly. He is chased, in a certain sense, by the thirteen mysterious characters. In addition, each episode of the little company is dedicated to one of the members and seen from his point of view, which generally reflects his real character. All this clicked in my head as soon as I decided to apply the combination of fantasy. No longer limited by the 300 words, because it would have been reductive as a story and would not have given me the opportunity to fully exploit this technique, I wrote the story in about two weeks. And so Children of Winter was born .
The story is suddenly ready in your head. Why not combine the Italian Christmas tradition with Icelandic folklore? Why not structure the story like Cormac McCarthy's dark novel The Dark Outside ? What could ever arise from this mixture? The structure of the story includes two points of view: the protagonist of the story, who appears in the second scene, and the Special Data supporting characters - but also their protagonists - who arrive first. As in the novel mentioned above, the supporting characters move in a sort of fantastic landscape and the italicized text accentuates their estrangement from the rest of the world. It follows, with a pause created by an empty space, the life of the protagonist.
The former are energetic characters and each of their episodes is equivalent to a day. The other is an old man and what we read about him happens on the same day. His life progresses slowly. He is chased, in a certain sense, by the thirteen mysterious characters. In addition, each episode of the little company is dedicated to one of the members and seen from his point of view, which generally reflects his real character. All this clicked in my head as soon as I decided to apply the combination of fantasy. No longer limited by the 300 words, because it would have been reductive as a story and would not have given me the opportunity to fully exploit this technique, I wrote the story in about two weeks. And so Children of Winter was born .