Ken Can't Write
@kencantwrite.bsky.social
A would-be writer, playing with his writer's blocks. #fiction #folklore #folkrealism #magicalrealism #amwriting #writingcommunity
This association with folk tales and #folklore is why I've taken to calling this style "folk realism". It uses many of the same techniques as magical realism, but it has different ideological & geographic foundations.
If this sounds at all interesting or if you write in a similar vein, let me know!
If this sounds at all interesting or if you write in a similar vein, let me know!
November 23, 2024 at 1:47 PM
This association with folk tales and #folklore is why I've taken to calling this style "folk realism". It uses many of the same techniques as magical realism, but it has different ideological & geographic foundations.
If this sounds at all interesting or if you write in a similar vein, let me know!
If this sounds at all interesting or if you write in a similar vein, let me know!
There's no moment at which someone sees them and thinks, "Wow! The legends are true!"
Because I think that's how it would really go. And because it's often how things went in old folk tales. People encountered the strange and the inexplicable. And then they very often went home and made dinner.
Because I think that's how it would really go. And because it's often how things went in old folk tales. People encountered the strange and the inexplicable. And then they very often went home and made dinner.
November 23, 2024 at 1:47 PM
There's no moment at which someone sees them and thinks, "Wow! The legends are true!"
Because I think that's how it would really go. And because it's often how things went in old folk tales. People encountered the strange and the inexplicable. And then they very often went home and made dinner.
Because I think that's how it would really go. And because it's often how things went in old folk tales. People encountered the strange and the inexplicable. And then they very often went home and made dinner.
My stories have characters that are hundreds of years old. One character is a sort of proto-dampir, something peculiar but mostly benign that existed long before all the stories we tell.
All those characters trudge through life the same way we all do. Brush their teeth, listen to music, get bored.
All those characters trudge through life the same way we all do. Brush their teeth, listen to music, get bored.
November 23, 2024 at 1:47 PM
My stories have characters that are hundreds of years old. One character is a sort of proto-dampir, something peculiar but mostly benign that existed long before all the stories we tell.
All those characters trudge through life the same way we all do. Brush their teeth, listen to music, get bored.
All those characters trudge through life the same way we all do. Brush their teeth, listen to music, get bored.
I've taken to seeing this as how I get to enjoy the twists in my own story. It's the closest I'll come to being my own reader.
November 23, 2024 at 1:23 PM
I've taken to seeing this as how I get to enjoy the twists in my own story. It's the closest I'll come to being my own reader.
Which naturally makes it difficult. But difficult in a good way. It's satisfying to let all these bizarre, otherworldly things walk right through the front door. And instead of flipping out, my characters offer them a place on the couch, make a pot of coffee, & sit down to chat. #amwriting
October 6, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Which naturally makes it difficult. But difficult in a good way. It's satisfying to let all these bizarre, otherworldly things walk right through the front door. And instead of flipping out, my characters offer them a place on the couch, make a pot of coffee, & sit down to chat. #amwriting
This is the thing that makes the writing challenging. It's very easy to start thinking of this place as a "Dark Narnia". In that case, he'd be wondering how to find it again, how to get back.
But this isn't that kind of story. In asking, "okay, what next?", I need to focus all the ordinary things.
But this isn't that kind of story. In asking, "okay, what next?", I need to focus all the ordinary things.
October 6, 2024 at 10:11 PM
This is the thing that makes the writing challenging. It's very easy to start thinking of this place as a "Dark Narnia". In that case, he'd be wondering how to find it again, how to get back.
But this isn't that kind of story. In asking, "okay, what next?", I need to focus all the ordinary things.
But this isn't that kind of story. In asking, "okay, what next?", I need to focus all the ordinary things.
One particular aspect of my story is a place I'm calling "The Night Country" (yes, I know about the show; I coined it first ^_^;). Having suffered terribly, my MC escapes into this other place. It's empty and sad, but somehow comforting, and he wanders.
And so when he comes back, what to do?
And so when he comes back, what to do?
October 6, 2024 at 10:09 PM
One particular aspect of my story is a place I'm calling "The Night Country" (yes, I know about the show; I coined it first ^_^;). Having suffered terribly, my MC escapes into this other place. It's empty and sad, but somehow comforting, and he wanders.
And so when he comes back, what to do?
And so when he comes back, what to do?