<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666</id><updated>2024-11-01T10:33:29.441+00:00</updated><category term="Inspirações"/><category term="Escrita"/><category term="Blog"/><category term="Fotografia"/><title type='text'>Um Passeio Pela Floresta</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Susana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14116633223920844460</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jf9masnMi59GJh25gWyJZDU29AVIQFxrdm22kyzqJwLVtMqMNyaxmb48oa6HVGau8zMhds4n3xv5Tb-zRBiDsYfbshukSJmrGQOvcPTPohWg6XqZdSdxVmyO_AYWZA/s220/iconsbunart.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>15</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666.post-8785549317681620017</id><published>2012-04-08T22:38:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-04-09T18:26:30.729+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Escrita"/><title type='text'>Repórter ou criativo</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/voldy92/6728774221/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;427&quot; src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6728774221_d33abcbe31_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Há uns dias li um texto que considerava existirem dois tipos de escritores de ficção: os repórteres e os criativos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Nunca tinha pensado no assunto por esta perspectiva, mas faz todo o sentido, pois se há pessoas que tendem a basear-se em situações que presenciaram ou viveram, outras há que preferem afastar-se de todas as experiências pessoais e explorarem o imaginário, desde o universo povoado de criaturas impossíveis até à projecção e organização de um enredo em que desenvolvem um mundo alternativo e personagens conforme lhes pareça mais apelativo. Uns absorvem inspiração da vida literal, concreta - são minuciosos na maneira como interpretam e transformam as suas vivências para uma história mais ou menos crua e realista; outros embarcam na aventura do abstracto e do faz-de-conta - são ambiciosos na forma como assumem o papel de criadores e constroem toda uma realidade ou parte dela de raiz. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;É claro que nenhum escritor é puramente repórter ou criativo; contudo, acho que há sempre um estilo no qual este se sente mais confortável, a zona de segurança a partir da qual experimenta novas formas de se exprimir. No meu caso, foi desde logo, instintivamente, a criativa, se bem que ultimamente sinto cada vez mais vontade de descobrir a repórter. E vocês, qual preferem, quer como escritores ou mesmo como leitores?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Muito obrigada pelos vossos comentários! ♥</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/feeds/8785549317681620017/comments/default' title='Enviar feedback'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/04/reporter-ou-criativo.html#comment-form' title='3 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/8785549317681620017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/8785549317681620017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/04/reporter-ou-criativo.html' title='Repórter ou criativo'/><author><name>Susana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14116633223920844460</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jf9masnMi59GJh25gWyJZDU29AVIQFxrdm22kyzqJwLVtMqMNyaxmb48oa6HVGau8zMhds4n3xv5Tb-zRBiDsYfbshukSJmrGQOvcPTPohWg6XqZdSdxVmyO_AYWZA/s220/iconsbunart.png'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666.post-8774564499927766334</id><published>2012-02-22T14:18:00.003+00:00</published><updated>2012-04-08T17:14:21.705+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Inspirações"/><title type='text'>Imagens (4) - Enikő Szabó</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://fav.me/d2lhbz2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/lilyandpanacea/am.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Até daqui a alguns (poucos) dias!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;― Richard Adams, &lt;i&gt;Watership Down &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Um belíssimo excerto para ser lido calmamente, retirado de uma obra que se encontra repleta de passagens com semelhante qualidade. A narrativa de &lt;i&gt;Watership Down &lt;/i&gt;tem muito a oferecer a todas as idades.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/feeds/2145370388169637572/comments/default' title='Enviar feedback'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/02/palavras-de-outros-2-watership-down.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/2145370388169637572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/2145370388169637572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/02/palavras-de-outros-2-watership-down.html' title='Palavras (2) - Watership Down'/><author><name>Susana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14116633223920844460</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jf9masnMi59GJh25gWyJZDU29AVIQFxrdm22kyzqJwLVtMqMNyaxmb48oa6HVGau8zMhds4n3xv5Tb-zRBiDsYfbshukSJmrGQOvcPTPohWg6XqZdSdxVmyO_AYWZA/s220/iconsbunart.png'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666.post-2272424416901626883</id><published>2012-01-30T12:00:00.003+00:00</published><updated>2012-04-08T17:14:33.555+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Inspirações"/><title type='text'>Imagens (3) - Andrew Inwood</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/aiphotography/6002471722/&quot; title=&quot;Velvet by (Andrew), on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Velvet&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; src=&quot;http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6124/6002471722_a4c0dd1a24_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/aiphotography/3589963039/&quot; title=&quot;Summer Coat by (Andrew), on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Summer Coat&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2460/3589963039_d427de4aca_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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O próximo post desta rubrica será sobre outro meio que não a fotografia...</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/feeds/2272424416901626883/comments/default' title='Enviar feedback'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/01/imagens-de-outros-3-andrew-inwood.html#comment-form' title='4 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/2272424416901626883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/2272424416901626883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/01/imagens-de-outros-3-andrew-inwood.html' title='Imagens (3) - Andrew Inwood'/><author><name>Susana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14116633223920844460</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jf9masnMi59GJh25gWyJZDU29AVIQFxrdm22kyzqJwLVtMqMNyaxmb48oa6HVGau8zMhds4n3xv5Tb-zRBiDsYfbshukSJmrGQOvcPTPohWg6XqZdSdxVmyO_AYWZA/s220/iconsbunart.png'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666.post-6682550307779728077</id><published>2012-01-28T00:34:00.002+00:00</published><updated>2012-04-08T17:12:24.293+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Escrita"/><title type='text'>Detecção de inconsistências e falhas no enredo</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/katieeleanor/6120594783/&quot; title=&quot;Untitled by katieeleanor, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; src=&quot;http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6195/6120594783_e11674d420_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Há cerca de dois meses que estou a trabalhar numa história relativamente pequena (cerca de 6000 palavras) quando ao rever mais uma vez o enredo reparei, para meu grande espanto, que um pormenor que é fulcral para a sua resolução não era explicado nem fazia sentido. É interessante porque já tinha pensado exaustivamente em todo o enredo da história e, contudo, deixei escapar algo que agora me parece tão absurdamente óbvio. Este pormenor tem grande importância na maneira como a história se desenrola: é ele que leva a heroína a ponderar entre duas escolhas e é ele que, em última instância, justifica uma boa porção dos eventos que ocorreram antes da narração e que condicionaram a própria história. De imediato comecei a pensar em várias razões para que esse pormenor fosse válido na história e, embora ainda não esteja convencida de que consiga dar a volta a esta inconsistência, acredito que ao escrever um pouco mais conseguirei apresentar uma linha lógica.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Podem surgir inconsistências e falhas no enredo de qualquer história, por mais curta que seja. Tratam-se de pormenores que, na altura da escrita ou do planeamento são aceites incondicionalmente por nós mas que, algum tempo depois, revemos e pensamos &quot;Como é que explico a passagem daqui para aqui?&quot; ou &quot;Esta transição não faz sentido e não explica...&quot;. São detalhes como estes que podem fazer a diferença  para os leitores entre aceitarem e acreditarem na história ou interromperem a leitura devido à confusão ou à descrença - são detalhes que podem suscitar uma variedade de questões e com isso impedir o leitor de continuar a apreciar o livro, comprometendo a experiência da leitura. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;A solução passa por pôr a história de parte para voltar a ela algum tempo depois - o suficiente para termos a certeza de que vamos reler o que escrevemos com um novo olhar ou, pelo menos, um olhar mais &quot;fresco&quot;, descomprometido das experiências e do padrão de pensamentos que tínhamos naqueles dias em que planeámos o enredo. Rever um enredo com um certo tempo de distanciamento permite que se obtenha uma maior compreensão de todas as perspectivas sobre a qual aquela história pode ser compreendida e questionada, fornecendo informações valiosas para que se possa alterar alguns pormenores que ora explorem ora expliquem porções da história que não eram muito claras ou que não faziam sentido de todo. E é engraçado olhar para o que escrevemos no passado e confrontarmos a nossa visão crítica actual com a forma como imaginámos ou planeámos a história naquele momento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;É possível que daqui a uns posts, quando tiver a minha história pronta, conte exactamente qual foi a inconsistência que apareceu no meio da minha suposta cuidada planificação. Por enquanto, deixo um caso de uma série de livros cuja realidade e mundo aceitei durante uns bons anos e que, depois de uma exploração mais intensiva, comecei a questionar: &lt;i&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/i&gt;. Até hoje penso que J. K. Rowling deveria ter explicado por que razão a comunidade internacional de feiticeiros não toma qualquer acção em relação ao Voldemort, por exemplo. E este é somente uma das muitas falhas que, apesar de continuar a gostar de &lt;i&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/i&gt;, me fazem desejar que algumas partes estivessem melhor explicadas. Ainda assim, estou certa de que existem muitos mais exemplos noutros livros. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Desejo-vos uma boa semana! &lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/feeds/6682550307779728077/comments/default' title='Enviar feedback'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/01/deteccao-de-inconsistencias-e-falhas-no.html#comment-form' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/6682550307779728077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/6682550307779728077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/01/deteccao-de-inconsistencias-e-falhas-no.html' title='Detecção de inconsistências e falhas no enredo'/><author><name>Susana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14116633223920844460</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jf9masnMi59GJh25gWyJZDU29AVIQFxrdm22kyzqJwLVtMqMNyaxmb48oa6HVGau8zMhds4n3xv5Tb-zRBiDsYfbshukSJmrGQOvcPTPohWg6XqZdSdxVmyO_AYWZA/s220/iconsbunart.png'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666.post-3567835070774718358</id><published>2012-01-23T01:57:00.001+00:00</published><updated>2012-04-08T17:14:51.820+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Inspirações"/><title type='text'>Palavras (1) - Picture-Books in Winter</title><content type='html'>De vez em quando irei colocar aqui alguns excertos de histórias, poemas ou citações que li e que quis partilhar convosco. :)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;center&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Picture-Books in Winter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;- Robert Louis Stevenson&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Summer fading, winter comes--&lt;br /&gt;
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,&lt;br /&gt;
Window robins, winter rooks,&lt;br /&gt;
And the picture story-books.&lt;br /&gt;
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Water now is turned to stone&lt;br /&gt;
Nurse and I can walk upon;&lt;br /&gt;
Still we find the flowing brooks&lt;br /&gt;
In the picture story-books.&lt;br /&gt;
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All the pretty things put by,&lt;br /&gt;
Wait upon the children&#39;s eye,&lt;br /&gt;
Sheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,&lt;br /&gt;
In the picture story-books.&lt;br /&gt;
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We may see how all things are&lt;br /&gt;
Seas and cities, near and far,&lt;br /&gt;
And the flying fairies&#39; looks,&lt;br /&gt;
In the picture story-books.&lt;br /&gt;
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How am I to sing your praise,&lt;br /&gt;
Happy chimney-corner days,&lt;br /&gt;
Sitting safe in nursery nooks,&lt;br /&gt;
Reading picture story-books? &lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/eoskins/4957825698/&quot; title=&quot;&#39;Twilight Dreams&#39; 1913 by Arthur Rackham by Plum leaves, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&#39;Twilight Dreams&#39; 1913 by Arthur Rackham&quot; height=&quot;424&quot; src=&quot;http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4078/4957825698_42ab52646d_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/feeds/3567835070774718358/comments/default' title='Enviar feedback'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/01/palavras-de-outros-1-picture-books-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/3567835070774718358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/3567835070774718358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/01/palavras-de-outros-1-picture-books-in.html' title='Palavras (1) - Picture-Books in Winter'/><author><name>Susana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14116633223920844460</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jf9masnMi59GJh25gWyJZDU29AVIQFxrdm22kyzqJwLVtMqMNyaxmb48oa6HVGau8zMhds4n3xv5Tb-zRBiDsYfbshukSJmrGQOvcPTPohWg6XqZdSdxVmyO_AYWZA/s220/iconsbunart.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/lilyandpanacea/Blog/th_alhsvk.gif" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666.post-5902961773470263388</id><published>2012-01-10T16:36:00.007+00:00</published><updated>2012-04-08T17:14:57.271+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Inspirações"/><title type='text'>Imagens (2) - Krista Palmu</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristapalmu/6266683095/&quot; title=&quot;Balloons In The Sky by JoyHey, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6111/6266683095_b8880505f0_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; alt=&quot;Balloons In The Sky&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristapalmu/5859293290/&quot; title=&quot;Cotton Candy Love by JoyHey, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5062/5859293290_400c6ed152_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; alt=&quot;Cotton Candy Love&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristapalmu/5610397320/&quot; title=&quot;Rainbow Kite by JoyHey, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5064/5610397320_35f66e3d2c_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; alt=&quot;Rainbow Kite&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristapalmu/5963370094/&quot; title=&quot;Vintage Summer by JoyHey, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6029/5963370094_f4fb475cbf_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; alt=&quot;Vintage Summer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/feeds/5902961773470263388/comments/default' title='Enviar feedback'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/01/imagens-dos-outros-2-krista-palmu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/5902961773470263388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/5902961773470263388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/01/imagens-dos-outros-2-krista-palmu.html' title='Imagens (2) - Krista Palmu'/><author><name>Susana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14116633223920844460</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jf9masnMi59GJh25gWyJZDU29AVIQFxrdm22kyzqJwLVtMqMNyaxmb48oa6HVGau8zMhds4n3xv5Tb-zRBiDsYfbshukSJmrGQOvcPTPohWg6XqZdSdxVmyO_AYWZA/s220/iconsbunart.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666.post-7287049063900934902</id><published>2012-01-06T01:28:00.002+00:00</published><updated>2012-04-08T17:12:24.294+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Escrita"/><title type='text'>A Song of Fire and Ice e pontos de vista múltiplos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/liquidsouldesign/sets/72157627410677518/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/lilyandpanacea/Untitled-5.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Uma das sagas de que se falou muito no ano anterior foi a incompleta &lt;i&gt;A Song of Fire and Ice&lt;/i&gt;, que actualmente vai no seu quinto volume &lt;i&gt;A Dance With Dragons&lt;/i&gt;. Intrigada com o entusiasmo da comunidade por estes livros e pela série que neles se baseia e que, dentro em breve, inicia a sua segunda temporada, não hesitei em colocar &lt;i&gt;A Game of Thrones&lt;/i&gt; na minha lista de leituras. Entretanto, já tive a oportunidade de ler os quatro primeiros livros e, além de as obras não desapontarem no geral, permitiram que tomasse contacto e reflectisse sobre o modo como o autor decidiu contar a sua história: até agora, todos os livros encontram-se divididos em capítulos narrados sob o ponto de vista de uma das personagens, sendo que o número de pontos de vista diferentes em cada livro ultrapassa a dezena.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;É uma história que não foca nenhuma personagem; em vez disso, uma ampla selecção delas contribui com um pouco dos eventos vistos pela sua perspectiva, alargando os horizontes de quem lê através da transmissão dos seus próprios valores, passados, ambições, localizações geográficas e personalidades muito particulares. Neste último aspecto, julgo que o autor foi brilhante: cada personagem, desde o anão Tyrion ao bastardo Jon Snow e passando por todas as outras, tem uma maneira de se expressar que é característica e que não é passível de ser confundida com nenhuma outra. A maioria são personagens extremamente ricas, pormenorizadas, completas em todas as suas dimensões. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Uma história construída com base em múltiplos e detalhados pontos de vista nunca permitirá a distinção de um único herói, de uma personagem principal. Não se pode afirmar que &lt;i&gt;A Song of Fire and Ice &lt;/i&gt;seja a história de Daenerys, de Arya ou de Jon. Deixamos de ter um único modelo e, eventualmente, personagens em que o foco não incide mas que de alguma forma nos despertam interesse para passarmos a ter vários modelos, com um foco transitório que a todos dá um breve momento de ribalta para em seguida passar o testemunho a outro. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Considero este estilo muito interessante no sentido em que possibilita o desenvolvimento de todo um elenco de personagens, e talvez por isso a série consiga seguir tão fielmente os livros e satisfazer os fãs. Seria engraçado ver capítulos com pontos de vista de outras personagens noutros livros como, por exemplo, Hermione ou Draco em Harry Potter (se bem que os títulos dos livros deixassem de fazer tanto sentido). Por um lado, traria ao de cima personagens ignoradas ou menosprezadas pela dita personagem principal mas que poderiam muito bem trazer riqueza à história; por outro lado, seria uma refrescante lufada de ar fresco acompanhar outro ponto de vista - nota-se um elemento adicional na composição da história e isso traduz-se numa sensação de satisfação com o detalhe e profundidade da obra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Não estou muito familiarizada com este tipo de narração noutras obras,  contudo, há uns anos, comecei a escrever uma história que, salvo erro,  continha cinco pontos de vista diferentes que se sucediam continuamente e  que pertenciam a um grupo de amigos que cumpria uma missão. Lembro-me  que um dos aspectos mais divertidos era, de facto, o passar para outra  personagem e imaginar como cada um via e interpretava à sua maneira um  mesmo acontecimento: um era mais fatalista, outra mais corajosa, um  outro tinha sempre umas palavras de conforto, e por aí fora. Não cheguei  a terminá-la, mas o seu planeamento fez-me aprender algumas coisas -  escrever uma determinada história uma e outra vez mas sob o ponto de  vista de personagens diferentes é uma excelente maneira de nos  apercebermos do quão desenvolvida e trabalhada se encontra essa mesma  personagem.&lt;br /&gt;
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Apesar de tudo, não é, claro, um género de narração perfeito. É certo que garante a tal riqueza e diversidade, mas tanta diversidade pode, também, trazer algum cansaço e repetição. A linha temporal avança, à partida, muito mais lentamente, e isto poderá exasperar um leitor menos paciente que não está interessado no ponto de vista daquela personagem tanto quanto está ansioso por descobrir o que vai acontecer a seguir. Além disso, a técnica dos pontos de vista múltiplos faz com que o leitor ganhe invariavelmente gostos e preferências em relação a personagens específicas assim como indiferença ou deprezo em relação a outras, o que poderá significar igualmente uma leitura muito apressada nos capítulos de determinadas personagens e uma muito mais cuidada noutros. No meu caso e referindo-me novamente a &lt;i&gt;A Song of Fire and Ice&lt;/i&gt;, tive muita dificuldade em ler os capítulos do Davos e alguns da Daenerys, por exemplo - estes últimos porque a acção era passada num local tão remoto e tão diferente da restante linha de eventos que não conseguia interessar-me por aquela perspectiva.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Para quem ainda não leu, aconselho se gostarem de uma história com algumas reviravoltas imprevisíveis, repleto de fortes personagens em constante perigo e passado num mundo inspirado na época medieval mas de tal modo bem explorado em todas as suas vertentes que ele quase é, também, uma personagem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;E é assim, chegou o ano 2012! Desejo a todos um excelente ano e que esta mudança de número vos dê força para concretizarem os vossos projectos. Este blog ainda é um embrião e 2012 será o ano que o verá realmente desenvolver-se, por isso esperem por muitos mais posts! :)&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/feeds/3594928264621577058/comments/default' title='Enviar feedback'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/01/bom-ano.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/3594928264621577058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/3594928264621577058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2012/01/bom-ano.html' title='Bom ano!'/><author><name>Susana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14116633223920844460</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jf9masnMi59GJh25gWyJZDU29AVIQFxrdm22kyzqJwLVtMqMNyaxmb48oa6HVGau8zMhds4n3xv5Tb-zRBiDsYfbshukSJmrGQOvcPTPohWg6XqZdSdxVmyO_AYWZA/s220/iconsbunart.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666.post-2523599604692850574</id><published>2011-12-27T12:52:00.009+00:00</published><updated>2012-04-08T17:15:02.208+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Inspirações"/><title type='text'>Imagens (1) - Reem eng</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/reem_unique/3262536059/&quot; title=&quot;Blondies made by ME  by Reem eng, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3491/3262536059_1d4954b25f_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;483&quot; alt=&quot;Blondies made by ME &quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/reem_unique/5704732087/&quot; title=&quot;Delighted by Reem eng, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2740/5704732087_3e2354d9da_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; alt=&quot;Delighted&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/reem_unique/5013692623/&quot; title=&quot;All time favorite by Reem eng, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4144/5013692623_0270371882_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; alt=&quot;All time favorite&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/reem_unique/5037196834/&quot; title=&quot;I love this frame by Reem eng, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4084/5037196834_381a1a45a7_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; alt=&quot;I love this frame&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/reem_unique/4945841685/&quot; title=&quot;Knock knock by Reem eng, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4141/4945841685_c51a4ec438_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; alt=&quot;Knock knock&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Fotos por &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/reem_unique/&quot;&gt;Reem eng&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Espero que os vossos dias estejam a ser bons... pela minha parte,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;há muito tempo que não via um Dezembro tão cheio de sol. :)&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/feeds/2523599604692850574/comments/default' title='Enviar feedback'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2011/12/imagens-dos-outros-1.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/2523599604692850574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/2523599604692850574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2011/12/imagens-dos-outros-1.html' title='Imagens (1) - Reem eng'/><author><name>Susana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14116633223920844460</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jf9masnMi59GJh25gWyJZDU29AVIQFxrdm22kyzqJwLVtMqMNyaxmb48oa6HVGau8zMhds4n3xv5Tb-zRBiDsYfbshukSJmrGQOvcPTPohWg6XqZdSdxVmyO_AYWZA/s220/iconsbunart.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666.post-5634591994859341003</id><published>2011-12-19T22:04:00.004+00:00</published><updated>2012-04-08T17:11:46.835+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fotografia"/><title type='text'>Penas e Água</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/69789489@N08/6539866979/&quot; title=&quot;Duck duck duck by lily of the valley ☂, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Duck duck duck&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6539866979_26a4cc303b_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6589133471_d998347675_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;211&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Fotografias não editadas de um belo dia de Outono-quase-Inverno. &lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/lilyandpanacea/Blog/fall252.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/feeds/5634591994859341003/comments/default' title='Enviar feedback'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2011/12/penas-e-agua.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/5634591994859341003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/5634591994859341003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2011/12/penas-e-agua.html' title='Penas e Água'/><author><name>Susana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14116633223920844460</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jf9masnMi59GJh25gWyJZDU29AVIQFxrdm22kyzqJwLVtMqMNyaxmb48oa6HVGau8zMhds4n3xv5Tb-zRBiDsYfbshukSJmrGQOvcPTPohWg6XqZdSdxVmyO_AYWZA/s220/iconsbunart.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/lilyandpanacea/Blog/th_fall252.gif" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666.post-989824136789434101</id><published>2011-12-18T19:06:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2012-04-08T17:12:05.807+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Entrevistas a três participantes do NaNoWriMo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2011/12/relatos-de-um-nanowrimo-de-2011-no-mes.html&quot;&gt;Como prometido&lt;/a&gt;, segue-se uma série de entrevistas a três participantes do NaNoWriMo; o projecto decorreu durante todo o mês de Novembro, sendo que nos dias &quot;checkpoint&quot; (dias 1, 15 e 30) era enviado um conjunto de questões. As suas respostas encontram-se aqui reproduzidas com um mínimo de edição e na língua com que foram elaboradas originalmente (Inglês). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Penso que, no fim, as suas respostas traduzem muito bem do que se trata o NaNoWriMo. Entre diferentes dificuldades e preocupações, todas tinham o mesmo objectivo em comum: escrever 50000 palavras num mês. Agradeço-lhes a disponibilidade e simpatia com que responderam prontamente às minhas questões e, quem sabe, talvez troquemos mais impressões num futuro NaNoWriMo. ^_^&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/lilyandpanacea/Blog/dia.png&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/lilyandpanacea/Blog/greenpencil.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;1 - Hello! Please introduce yourself. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/b&gt; Hello! This is my first NaNo, I&#39;m from Kansas, USA. I&#39;m 20 years old and currently a student.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; Hiya! My name is Ashleigh, I&#39;m 19 years old and I live in upstate New York. I&#39;ve done NaNo for years but I&#39;ve always chickened out or lost interest before I get to 15,000 words. This year I&#39;m very excited about my story though, and with the help of my buddies I hope to be a winner this year!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; My name is Mallory. I&#39;m 24 and live in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I work in the maintenance department in a local hotel but I eventually want to get into library or museum work, or possibly something in the publishing industry. I have a LiveJournal at &lt;a href=&quot;http://nightcat-hekasu.livejournal.com/&quot;&gt;nightcat-hekasu.livejournal.com&lt;/a&gt; where I mostly rant about work, writing, and post sketches. This is my second NaNoWriMo. I also did it last year and won.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;2 - Have you extensively planned your novel? What will it be about?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/b&gt;  YES! I planned it to be a fantasy of sorts about an escaped evil demon  thing that wants to conquer the world. And of course a rag-tag group of  protagonists is out to save said world.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; I wouldn&#39;t say the novel itself is extensively planned, but I&#39;ve spent a lot of time thinking about the story before November, which is a complete change from my normal NaNo strategy! It&#39;s based on a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. My husband is the Dungeon Master, so the story takes place in a world he has been developing for over 10 years; I play the female lead, and a friend of ours is the male lead. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; I didn&#39;t do a whole lot of planning for this year&#39;s novel. I started out with just the image in my head of a classic detective with a sword and my main character evolved from there. I have a rough idea of how the story will progress and the day before NaNo started I did a few quick character outlines and did a phase outline of the first two chapters.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The story itself is a mix of modern detective fiction and medieval fantasy. I&#39;ve always loved the image of the trench coat-and-fedora detective and I&#39;ve always wanted to create a character like that. I also have a background in medieval and Arthurian literature thanks to university and I love writing in that genre. By combining the two I get to experiment in a genre that I&#39;ve always wanted to try (modern crime fiction) but I also have the comfort of another genre which I already feel confident in. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt; 3 - How did your first NaNoWriMo day go and what was your overall mood throughout the day?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/b&gt; Kind of rough to be honest. My beginning wasn&#39;t pretty as it is something that I&#39;m terrible at and didn&#39;t really plan much.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; I think my first NaNo day is going really well, I&#39;ve had two word wars with two different buddies. I had never tried one before today, and I couldn&#39;t believe how much it helped me get those words on the page! Actually, having buddies in general is turning out to be a great motivator for me. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; I started my first day right at the stroke of midnight. I managed to write a little over two thousand words before going to bed, and during the day I wrote another two thousand for a grand total of 4045 for my first day. This is a great personal success, even though I had fallen short of my original five thousand word goal. The story flowed surprisingly easy for me once I turned off my inner editor and stopped worrying whether or not the story was any good. I kept repeating the mantra of &quot;don&#39;t be afraid to write crap&quot; in my head. Once I allowed myself to embrace that it felt almost freeing, in a way.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Overall, my mood towards the novel during the day was one of optimism. I didn&#39;t allow myself to worry about the quality and just focused on writing it down. Quality will come later, when I actually have something tangible to work with.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;4 - What do you foresee will be your greatest difficulties regarding the completion of your novel?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Writing the ending and editing the beginning come December.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I think the hardest part will be simply getting to 50k. Kind of an obvious answer, but it&#39;s the truth! DND stories can go sour fast if you don&#39;t approach them a certain way, and I tend to give up quick if I think my story is turning out to be less than what I envisioned. Also, I&#39;ve only ever written short stories, so my writing style tends to be...concise. I&#39;m trying to see this as an opportunity to go into detail on all the cool things I can only give passing attention to in short stories.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; I think the greatest difficulty for me will be my lack of planning. I&#39;m a pantser by nature, but I&#39;ve had months long stretches before where I get stuck on one scene and couldn&#39;t for the life of me figure out how to get past it. I&#39;m hoping that a time limit will help me overcome any difficulties such as this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;I&#39;m also trying to get over my fear of discussing my plot ideas and story in general with other people. With last year&#39;s novel I had a few people close to me openly mock my story and it had made me not want to share it with anybody. I regret letting that bring me down and kill much of the fun of writing something I loved. I refuse to let that happen with this year&#39;s novel. So, long story short, asking for help when I need it may be another big obstacle for me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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5 - What other activities will you try balancing while doing NaNoWriMo?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Mostly class, work, and university related activities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;I have a husband who works very hard to keep us from living in a cardboard box, and his free time is limited. I want to make the most of our time together when he&#39;s at home. Other than that, November 3rd is my last day of work (I swear I&#39;m not quitting to do NaNoWriMo!), so my life for the rest of the winter will likely be writing and enjoying married life. I could use a quiet patch in my life, so this will be nice. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; This month I&#39;m also in the midst of writing the fourth draft of last year&#39;s novel. I certainly don&#39;t expect to finish it this month, but I have promised some family and friends at least the first few chapters by the time Christmas rolls around. Otherwise I have my job, but I don&#39;t see that as being a huge problem for me as far as writing goes. I also have a few other writing projects on the go or want to start, but I&#39;m still in the planning stages for those. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;1 - Were you motivated to write today? How much did you write?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Not very...I actually didn&#39;t write anything on that day. It was during my &quot;Slump&quot; when My writing went down due to school and such.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; Funny you should ask! Yesterday I sent what I had so far to the person who plays as the male lead in the DND campaign I&#39;m basing the story on. He sent me an email this morning saying he stayed up all night reading it and that he thought it was amazing! That definitely kept me in the writing spirit for the rest of the day. I&#39;m thinking, &quot;Yay! It&#39;s not utter crap!&quot; I have written about 2k so far, but the night is young and I really want to make it past 27k before it&#39;s over!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; I wasn&#39;t feeling all that motivated to write on the 15th at all. I was sort of at the point where I was starting to feel burnt out by the story. I did however managed to write about 1800 words through sheer force of will. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;2 - How is your novel coming along compared to what you envisioned in the beginning?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;It was going a bit slow at that point. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; A few days before NaNo I started panicking that I was going to run out of story before I hit 50k, but it turns out it&#39;s taking up much more space than I thought it would. I&#39;m also really enjoying watching my characters develop into complex people. It&#39;s like watching your child grow up. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; The story has taken a few unexpected turns, though overall I think it&#39;s heading towards an identical ending as I had envisioned when I had started. It&#39;s starting to parallel the Arthurian legends more closely than I had originally intended, which surprised me greatly when I had realized it but I think it works very well for the story.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;3 - What main strategy are you using to push forward that wordcount?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;My plan then was to just focus on what I needed to do for school and try  to write as much as I could; I didn&#39;t have any classes during week  four; so I knew that I could play catch-up then if I needed to. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; I am keeping my butt in my chair and my hands on the keyboard. It&#39;s really important to me for a variety of reasons that I finish this, and I&#39;m not going to let myself chicken out!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; I have a few strategies. The biggest thing is that I&#39;ve set up my word processing program (FocusWriter) to have a daily word target of 2000 words. Seeing the little percentage at the bottom of my screen steadily go up and up has been spurring me on to write even of days which I really don&#39;t feel like writing. On days were even that won&#39;t motivate me I pop into Write or Die and challenge myself in that program. In addition to that I&#39;ve been promising myself to do something else once I reach my word goal for that day. It&#39;s usually doing sketches or playing a game. Today I&#39;m promising myself to do character portraits if I hit my goal, for example.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;I also went to a write-in last week during which I ended up with my highest daily word count yet (6k! Yay!). Being in a different place without the distractions of home went a long way to keep me focused on my word count, and the word wars that we did that day helped in a huge way as well. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;4 - Do you feel there is a big difference between NaNoWriMo and the rest of the year regarding your routine?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Not too much - but I feel like I spend less time on social activities and such. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; Heck yeah! I&#39;ve never made such a serious effort to be better disciplined. I know for some people churning out thousands of words a day is nothing, but I have to work very hard to make sure I write something that I won&#39;t immediately want to delete, even if it is NaNo. It seems like my fictional characters aren&#39;t the only ones experiencing growth. ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; Most definitely. With NaNoWriMo there&#39;s a whole community of people also working towards the same goal and with the time and word limit it always helps to engage my more competitive side, which in turn spurs me to write. For the rest of the year, though I write almost everyday, most of that writing is for making edits and changes to my existing work, which I don&#39;t enjoy nearly as much. I also don&#39;t have the threat of a solid time limit hanging over my head so I have a tendency to procrastinate. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;5 - Do you believe you will be a NaNo winner?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Do I think that I will win? I think so - even if I am behind; as I said - I know that I would  have plenty of time to catch-up during week four.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; I have to believe it. There are no other options. I&#39;m really good at making excuses for myself, but as I said, there are a lot of both simple and complicated reasons why I NEED to finish this year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; At this point with my word count (I managed to hit 40k last night, yay!), I&#39;d be highly disappointed in myself if I didn&#39;t hit 50k. The big thing for me is being able to actually finish the story, which I&#39;m sure will require another 20k-40k to finish. That&#39;s my goal for the end of the month, and that&#39;s the one I&#39;m not so sure if I can keep. Here&#39;s hoping!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/lilyandpanacea/Blog/dia30.png&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/lilyandpanacea/Blog/pinkpencil.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;1 - Did you win NaNoWriMo? How did you feel when writing the 50000th word?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/b&gt; Yes! I felt relieved; ecstatic and otherwise just amazed with I finished it. It was right after I had finished a physics exam and only a few hours before the deadline - so I was definitely starting to get nervous about not making it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; I finally did it! After so many attempts I finally won! Those last one hundred words felt so surreal, I feel like I can do anything now. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; I won with around 67k worth of words. When I hit 50k I felt rather relieved to have made it that far, but also a bit overwhelmed because I still had a lot of story left at that point. I then made it a goal to finish the book by the end of the month, which I managed to finish during the last day of the month.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;2 - Is your novel any different from what you initially envision it? Are you pleased with the final result?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/b&gt; Somewhat; not much though. I am pleased - there are plot holes and such but when I go through the editing process it should get better. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;I was honestly very surprised that it turned out as well as it did. Don&#39;t get me wrong, my inner editor is chomping at the bit to fix all of the many things that are broken, but overall, everything is coming together nicely.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; It did turn out rather differently than I had expected. I went into it thinking that it would basically be a murder-mystery with some fantasy elements, but it turned into more of an action-adventure that edges into high fantasy. It also ended up being a lot more closely tied to the Arthurian legends than I had expected.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Overall I&#39;m fairly pleased, but I think in rewrites I&#39;ll try to play up the detective novel aspect of it a little more. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;3 - Were you able to write every single day?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/b&gt; No; Classes and such got in the way during week three.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; There were two or three days where I wrote double the daily minimum so I could take the next day off and get other things done, but other than that I wrote every day. It really does become a habit, about three hours after I declared a vacation for myself I opened up Scrivener and started tweaking. I just can&#39;t leave it alone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; I wrote just about every day. There were a couple days where I either didn&#39;t have the time or felt completely burned out and didn&#39;t write. I think overall I only didn&#39;t write on three days, which I&#39;m happy with.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;4 - Were you able to successfully balance your other activities with NaNoWriMo or were they neglected?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/b&gt; Oh; they were somewhat neglected but my core activities of work and school were largely unaffected. My more social activities were sort of neglected but it was worth it...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; I don&#39;t know how people are able to balance things like work, spouse and kids on top of NaNo! I just have a spouse, and I still feel like I could have done better about spending more time with him. I spent a little too much time doing Procrastination Disguised As Research, so it took me about 6-8 hours a day to meet my daily goal. And let&#39;s not discuss the enormous pile of laundry waiting to be done...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; Creative-wise my other activities were a little neglected, but I don&#39;t think it was necessarily a bad thing. I didn&#39;t do any editing on my other novel at all so I decided to just wait until this month for that. I did do a fair amount of sketches, though, both for myself and for other NaNoers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Otherwise it was a fairly quiet month for me overall, so nothing else got neglected. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;5 - What would you do differently?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/b&gt; Maybe plan more; think through my plot holes a bit more...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I would be more productive with my writing time. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; I wish I had done a little more planning for this NaNo. I had a lot of subplots that sort of fizzled out and went nowhere in this novel. Then again, that&#39;s what editing is for!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;6 - What are the three main lessons you learned from this NaNoWriMo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;S:&lt;/b&gt; Keep going! I got behind during week three but managed to make up for it.l Don&#39;t give up - and don&#39;t use contractions like I am now. Try to silence your internal editor and not fret over plot holes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;The three most important things I learned are:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;1.) It&#39;s okay to get it wrong the first time. This was easily the hardest lesson to learn, but it was the most valuable as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;2.) I can plan story arcs ahead of time, but not characters arcs. The personalities of the main characters still had the core of what I initially imagined, but it really is better for me to let things like flaws, quirks, and values develop naturally as the story progresses. It makes them more three-dimensional.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;3.) I take as much time as I give myself to write. If I have all day, I take all day, if I only have a couple of hours, that&#39;s all I need. So, dink around on the internet less and write more!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;M:&lt;/b&gt; Hm, three main lessons...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;1 - If I really put my mind to it, it&#39;s entirely in my abilities to hit 50k by the halfway point. That will be my goal for next year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;2 - Going to write-ins alone isn&#39;t as scary as I thought. I&#39;m an incredibly shy person and almost didn&#39;t go to any write-ins, but I somehow managed to convince myself to go to an all-day write in. I ended up writing about 6k that day and met some awesome people, so next year I think I&#39;m going to go to as many as I can.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;3 - As far as writing goes, I can use a little more practice with plotting out my story beforehand. I&#39;m mainly a panster, but I think that if I took the time to plot out at least the main story arc then I&#39;d have an easier time seeing exactly where the story is heading. &lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/feeds/989824136789434101/comments/default' title='Enviar feedback'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2011/12/entrevistas-tres-participantes-do.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/989824136789434101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/786261181667201666/posts/default/989824136789434101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://umpasseiopelafloresta.blogspot.com/2011/12/entrevistas-tres-participantes-do.html' title='Entrevistas a três participantes do NaNoWriMo'/><author><name>Susana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14116633223920844460</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jf9masnMi59GJh25gWyJZDU29AVIQFxrdm22kyzqJwLVtMqMNyaxmb48oa6HVGau8zMhds4n3xv5Tb-zRBiDsYfbshukSJmrGQOvcPTPohWg6XqZdSdxVmyO_AYWZA/s220/iconsbunart.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/lilyandpanacea/Blog/th_dia.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786261181667201666.post-1634182263205051063</id><published>2011-12-10T23:35:00.007+00:00</published><updated>2012-04-08T17:12:24.294+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Escrita"/><title type='text'>Relatos de um NaNoWriMo</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nanowrimo.org/en/nanotoons/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/lilyandpanacea/Blog/nanotoons.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;No mês passado, um dos principais desafios a que me propus foi o &lt;a href=&quot;http://nanowrimo.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;NaNoWriMo&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, uma iniciativa que os participantes concluem com sucesso se escreverem, de raiz, um livro com um mínimo de 50000 palavras. Podem, contudo, trabalhar no esboço e planificação do seu livro antes, se assim o entenderem. Para se &quot;ganhar&quot; o NaNoWriMo, é feita uma validação final do número de palavras através de um contador do próprio site, para onde são copiadas as histórias; um sistema que depende inteiramente da honestidade dos participantes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Este foi o meu segundo NaNoWriMo; já o tinha tentado pela primeira vez em 2008, alcançando o objectivo das 50000 palavras e pelo caminho explorando substancialmente uma história que actualmente ainda está numa fase de desenvolvimento. Para este NaNoWriMo não trazia quaisquer planos senão o desejo de passar para o papel a história de uma personagem em que pensava há já algum tempo: uma história em que, pura e simplesmente, escreveria tudo o que me apetecesse, com todos os clichès que daí pudessem advir. Decidi também escrever em Inglês, no que constituiria um dos grandes desafios deste NaNoWriMo, pois nunca antes me havia aventurado a escrever uma história de tamanha dimensão nesta língua.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Esta foi a sinopse que publiquei no meu perfil do NaNoWriMo:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&quot;Improvised novel, not so much improved characters. When Eleanor Sheach takes upon herself to study the noble arts of Healing Magic, she is far from imagining the many adventures and individuals she will encounter in the way, including a Potions-expert neurotic girl, a serious hardworking blacksmith conceiling a secret and a flirtatious, wealthy swordfighter with a penchant for saving damsels in distress. New storylines blossom from every corner in this wondrous tale of humour and romance, but also of courage and loyalty.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Comecei com entusiasmo, mas cedo vieram a verificar-se os mesmos problemas que há três anos atrás: semanas preenchidas com aulas, doença, obrigações várias... houve dias em que não escrevi uma única palavra e outros em que escrevi mais de 5000. No fim, diverti-me muito com todo o enredo que ia criando na altura, como se as personagens soubessem muito bem o que iam fazer a seguir. Uma relação, em particular, surpreendeu-me, entre a minha personagem principal Eleanor e a sua melhor amiga, a tal rapariga neurótica que sabia muito de Poções - as suas conversas revelavam-se do mais cómico que havia por vezes, e eu a imaginar o que uma dizia à outra já me ria antes sequer de me pôr a escrever.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Ainda assim, as dificuldades nos meus hábitos de escrita continuaram a fazer-se sentir e, a dois dias do fim do NaNoWriMo, vi-me a braços com cerca de 10000 palavras em atraso. Voltava a ser uma situação semelhante à da minha primeira tentativa, em que me lembro de ter feito uma maratona de escrita nos últimos dias para poder chegar às 50000 palavras, e teria feito o mesmo este ano se o meu computador não tivesse aproveitado a ocasião... para avariar. Com ele foram uma colecção de ficheiros que não tinham sido guardados em mais nenhum dispositivo, incluindo o meu livro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Quando, ao recuperar o uso do computador, me apercebi que a minha história tinha desaparecido, não fiquei demasiadamente triste. Posso reescrevê-la noutra ocasião, com mais empenho: os eventos continuam bem frescos na minha mente e até sobreviveram alguns excertos, nomeadamente aqueles que tinha em papel. Além disso, ela cumpriu o seu propósito e eu aprendi muito com este mês de Novembro. Aprendi que três qualidades são fundamentais para a conclusão de um NaNoWriMo: aproveitamento de tempo, disciplina e repressão da auto-edição.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;&quot;&gt;Aproveitamento de tempo.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt; Para se escreverem precisamente 50000 palavras em trinta dias, devem ser escritas 1667 palavras por dia. Isto pode não parecer muito, mas, dia após dia, torna-se difícil aproveitar o tempo livre para nos dedicarmos à escrita; às vezes pensamos até: &quot;Mas que tempo livre?&quot; A solução passa por examinar criticamente a rotina do dia-a-dia e identificar momentos em que poderíamos escrever. É importante colocar a escrita num dos primeiros lugares da lista de prioridades: deve tornar-se a actividade &quot;base&quot; da nossa linearidade de pensamentos, ou seja, a actividade para onde nos devemos voltar assim que outras tarefas importantes foram concretizadas e nos perguntamos o que poderemos fazer a seguir.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;De igual forma, é importante aproveitar o tempo da própria escrita, focando a atenção e não divagando para outros assuntos ou problemas. Compreendi rapidamente que a melhor maneira de escrever mais em menos tempo consistia em organizar &quot;guerras de palavras&quot; com a minha pupila do NaNoWriMo: combinávamos que ao fim de 15 minutos quem apresentasse o maior número número de palavras escritos nesse periodo era o vencedor dessa guerra. Eu não tinha grande noção da minha velocidade, quando escrevia levada pela história sem pensar em mais nada, portanto foi grande a surpresa quando constatei que era capaz de escrever mais de 600 palavras em 15 minutos! Se conseguisse manter o ritmo, era capaz de perfazer o total diário necessário em pouco menos de 45 minutos, o que é interessante.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;&quot;&gt;Disciplina.&lt;/b&gt; Não basta o entusiasmo inicial; é também precisa muita determinação e persistência. Talvez, com o passar dos dias, há quem encontre uma rotina confortável e se apoie nessa rotina para escrever; eu não o consegui fazer, mas em contrapartida tentei fixar números de palavras e só deixaria de escrever quando chegasse a determinada meta. No NaNoWriMo, se não se escreve diariamente ou pelo menos com relativa frequência, é muito complicado depois recuperar dos atrasos que se acumulam como uma bola de neve. Se não é possível a aquisição de um hábito diário, então que, ao menos, não percamos de vista o objectivo final e optemos por uma estratégia que o cumpra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;&quot;&gt;Repressão da auto-edição.&lt;/b&gt; Do NaNoWriMo não se querem obras-primas, histórias meticulosamente trabalhadas e geniais em todos os aspectos; o resultado é, geralmente, imperfeito, confuso, diluído, desprovido de sentido. É normal ser assim. Considero o resultado como um mapa da mente do escritor, ali desenrolado e estendido para que ele possa entender os seus próprios artifícios, maneira de pensar, tendências. O livro que sai do NaNoWriMo é um esboço e um esboço apenas; assim, não faz sentido que se edite muito enquanto se escreve; haverá muito tempo para isso em Dezembro e nos meses seguintes. No NaNoWriMo, importa a quantidade: quer isto dizer que se deve escrever tudo quanto venha à cabeça e que se veja como seguimento ao que já se escreveu.&lt;br /&gt;
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Para mim, foi difícil escrever com linearidade na primeira tentativa e acabei por saltar alguns eventos, escrevendo também diálogos que ainda não se inseriam em qualquer parte. Isto também é válido, mas para este NaNoWriMo desafiei-me a não passar à frente quaisquer partes, mesmo aquelas que me pareciam ser aborrecidas de escrever. Concluí que até as partes que previa trazerem-me tédio podiam tornar-se interessantes a qualquer momento e que o seguimento da linearidade trazia-me, a mim, maior satisfação no momento de passar a uma cena que já estava ansiosa por escrever.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;No próximo post publicarei uma série de entrevistas que fiz a três participantes do NaNoWriMo deste ano. Até daqui a uns dias!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Resolvi criar este blog com o propósito de ter um espaço na Internet para me poder exprimir na minha língua materna. Por enquanto, não tenho muitas experiências com blogs em Português, quer a escrever num ou a visitar e comentar os que existem, e tenciono aprofundar um pouco mais os meus conhecimentos desse mundo que é decerto muito rico e variado :)&lt;br /&gt;
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Conto escrever sobre um pouco de tudo que se relacione com as minhas áreas de interesse, desde opiniões de livros, filmes e outros meios de entretenimento a frases interessantes, artigos sobre escrita e outras artes, listas e curiosidades aleatórias. Para começar, inclui uma citação de Jim Rohn: de facto, a motivação é muito importante para accionar o &quot;motor&quot; de uma ideia e iniciar a sua passagem à prática, mas são realmente os hábitos que determinam a persistência e, no fim, a realidade dessa ideia. Espero por isso adquirir o hábito de escrever neste blog, mais ou menos frequentemente, é certo, mas com a regularidade que sentir ser a melhor no momento.&lt;br /&gt;
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