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Creating Casanova’s oracle
- January 15, 2022
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No CommentsIn his memoirs Casanova frequently refers to his and other people’s ‘genius’. Sometimes this genius is evil, sometimes it’s benevolent. However, for Casanova the term ‘genius’ doesn’t simply mean a person’s cleverness (although he does use it to mean that on occasion) but rather it has the quality of an oracle which enables some sort -
Showing and telling
- December 5, 2021
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‘Show rather than tell’ is useful advice for all fiction writers. It is better to try to show through what the protagonists do and how they behave rather than tell (show how A is jealous of B rather than simply tell your audience that A is jealous of B). With a graphic novel, there are -
Silence
- October 30, 2021
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One of the special features of a media that combines words and images in a static mode, such as graphic novels and comics, is its ability to make use of silence. In purely written texts, there must always be a voice, either that of the character or narrator. With film it is possible, but
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