writing
The writing is the narration by literature , generally in writing.
As the genus proximum of everything that counts in the craft of literary writing, writing is related to the writer as sculpture is to the sculptor and painting is to the painter.
Sections of writing
Character lore
Lajos Egri writes about the importance of character studies for literary success , the "secret of great and timeless literature" is "living, colorful people". What keeps imperishable classics alive over the centuries is not style experiments, but their extraordinarily haunting character portraits. One example is Oblomov in Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov 's novel of the same name.
dramaturgy
The dramaturgy area deals with the general principles of composition for literary texts such as action and plot , tension and suspense .
Form science
The science of forms is the canon of literary forms of representation : anecdote , story , fable , gloss , satire , novel , essay , novella , short story , aphorism , legend , parable , etc.
Storytelling techniques
When creating a literary work, real events are mapped onto fictional events . Elements of reality are used, but they are changed in the creation of fiction. This process in which real events are processed, alienated, disguised, is the narrative technique . It expresses itself on the text level, for example, through stylistic , grammatical and language-pragmatic phenomena.
A typical phenomenon of fiction that can be generated by means of a certain narrative technique is to be able to represent the ego-originality ( subjectivity ) of a third person as a third person . If verbs of perception are used in the third person, it has to be fiction and not a reality report as an outsider cannot know what is going on inside a third person.
Another characteristic of fiction generated by certain narrative techniques is to create the illusion of presence. For example, the fictional use of the past tense in verbs of internal processes (also called epic past tense ) can be combined with the use of deictic adverbs of time, which, however, refer to the here-and-now point of view of the characters in the novel, and thus the statement of reality ultimately with the Link the present or future tense .
literature
- Dirk R. Meynecke: The author's primer. From the idea to the book success . Ehrenwirth, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-431-03158-7 .
- Fritz Gesing : Write creatively. Crafts and techniques of storytelling . DuMont, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-8321-3375-5 .
- Linda Seger: From the figure to the character . Alexander, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89581-034-7 .
- Otto Schumann (Ed.): Basics and techniques of the art of writing. Handbook for writers, educators, Germanists, editors and budding authors . Nokol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-933203-28-7 .
- Hartmut Kasper : School of Authors. A handbook of poetry and writing . Reclam, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-379-01697-7 .
- William Zinsser: Write like a writer. Technical and non-fiction books, biography, travelogue, criticism, business, science and technology . Authors' House, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-932909-72-0 .
- Wolfgang Bittner : Profession: Writer. What you need to know if you want to make a living from writing . Allitera, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-86520-197-0 .
- Dorothea Brande: Become a writer. The classic about writing and becoming a writer . Authors' House , Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-932909-78-X .
- Jürgen vom Scheidt : Writing short stories . Allitera, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-935877-57-9 .
- James N. Frey: How to Write a Damn Good Novel . Volume 1. Emons, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-924491-32-1 .
- Lajos Egri : Literary Writing. Strong characters, original ideas, convincing plot . Authors' House, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-932909-68-2 .
- Lajos Egri: Dramatic Writing. Theater, film, novel . Authors' House, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-932909-58-5 .
- Dietmar Hübner: Ten Commandments for Philosophical Writing , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012 in UTB , Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-3642-7 .
- David Lodge : The craft of writing. How to tell stories . List, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-60364-5 .
- Anne Bernays, Pamela Painter: What if? Writing exercises for writers . From the American by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt. Alexander, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89581-082-7 .
