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__write what you don’t know

16 Friday May 2014

Posted by Ermilia in Ermisenda

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books, discussion, elif shafak, international writers, politics of fiction, ted talk, video, write what you don't know, write what you know, writing, youtube

I watched this video about a week ago and I just loved it so much that I wanted to share it on Ermilia. There are so many interesting points Elif Shafak raises about books and writing. One of the most interesting ones was ‘write what you don’t know’. I feel like writers are often encouraged to write what they know. I don’t think that’s bad since writing what we know increases the likelihood that we are more accurately writing the event/characters etc. But I’m a writer who keeps wanting to venture out and write what I don’t know. Is that bad? I want to explore other races, cultures, and worlds that I have had little or no contact with. Although I will add that I believe in these circumstances the author has a greater responsibility to do their research.

I also found her point about multicultural writers being pigeonholed was interesting and I had never paid much attention to it before. International writers shouldn’t just be famous because of a novel that is perceived to represent them or their culture in some way. Why can’t their interesting novels be promoted in English-speaking countries, even if they have nothing to do with the author’s home country. How many interesting stories are we missing out from international writers just because the stories aren’t “international”?

What spoke to you the most from this talk? What do you think about writing what you don’t know?

– Ermisenda

 

__take my spare story ideas!

28 Monday Apr 2014

Posted by Ermilia in Ermisenda

≈ 13 Comments

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booktuber, community, creative, inspiration, sharing ideas, stories, video, writetuber, writing, youtube

I think as writers we can get protective over our story ideas. And that’s fair. After all, creating an imaginative, unique story is often a core part of making a successful story that people want to read because its different. But what happens when you have so many story ideas that you know you won’t be able to turn them all into stories? Well, I’m going to share some of mine!

So some of my story ideas (characters, settings, inspirational lines of thoughts) that I have written on my electronic post-it notes include:
– Writing a modern-day story based on a fairytale
– Writing a fantasy novel with hugggeee powerful snakes instead of dragons
– Including a prominent character with a lisp
– Comparing character personalities/beauties to planets and moons

I also decided to take the opportunity to finally attempt a YouTube video to add an extra something-something on my behalf for Ermilia. Let me know what you think. ๐Ÿ™‚ Hopefully I’ll get better at the camera focus stuff and learning to refrain from using repetitive phrases. ๐Ÿ˜› It’s not easy!

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__the the impotence of proofreading

05 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by Ermilia in Ermisenda

≈ 12 Comments

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comedy, editing, essays, funny, hilarious, humour, joke, reading, taylor mali, the the impotence of proof reading, video, writing, youtube

The The Impotence of Proof Reading

I cannot recall if I have ever posted this on Ermilia Blog. I thought I had but I can’t seem to find it through the archives. Regardless, one can never have too much Taylor Mali. An amazing video for all those writers, readers, and anyone who enjoys a good laugh.

Always remember to proof-read! Read up on some funny writing quotes to see what spurred me to post this video. ๐Ÿ™‚

– Ermisenda Alvarez

__information is food

15 Tuesday May 2012

Posted by Ermilia in Ermisenda

≈ 5 Comments

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cartoon, consumption, cooking, diet, drawing, fiction, food, information, inspiration, life, reading, recipe, technology, TEDtalk, video, writing

I recently watched JP Rangaswarmi’s TEDtalk on information. It inspired me to write this post which includes a summary of what he talks about and my thoughts. At first, I thought it was all a bit silly. Seeing information as food? I could get the obvious analogies but I didn’t really see why looking at it from that perspective was of any use. But then I kept thinking a bit more…

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__may imagination rain down on me

28 Wednesday Sep 2011

Posted by Ermilia in Ermisenda

≈ 8 Comments

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books, experience, future, imagination, rain, technology, video, writing

The image has been reblogged on Ermisenda on tumblr.

__may imagination rain down on me

*For whatever reason, the clip is not playing in the post. ย Click the image to get it to play properly.

A beautiful little clip that I had to share with fellow readers, writers and anyone else who bothers to look. I’m waiting on technology to make reading this interactive, so much could be done but at the same time the beauty of reading is the imagination. If reading had action bits like this, would you still read it?

The beauty of this clip stands on it’s own but let’s think about it further. If we took the idea literally, would it devalue the reading experience for you? How would you react if a new stream of books were published using such interactive clips among the pages? Is this a possible future for books? (I personally don’t think so but it’s interesting to think about. I think the novelty would wear off.)

Does it provoke any thoughts for anyone else? Who else finds this totally AWESOME?

– Ermisenda Alvarez

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