How to write your own stories

The Author

Miguel D’Addario is Italian. Born in Buenos Aires.

Bachelor's degree in journalism, Master in Education Social, Master in sociology and doctorate in communication Social by the University Complutense of Madrid. It has developed its experience in various fields of teaching, from vocational training to the level of University, both in Latin America and Europe.

His books are in different learning centers and libraries in the world, as for example the University San Pablo of Peru, University Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, Ecuador University of San Gregorio, Universitat de València, Spain’s national library, National library of Argentina, University of Texas, Complutense University of Madrid, University of Toronto, Canada; University of Deusto, National University Autonomous of Mexico, National University Mayor San Marcos (Perú), University of Illinois, University of Kansas, Libraries of the community of Madrid, Castilla y León, Andalucía, and País Vasco, British National Library, Harvard University, library of the Congress of the United States.

PhD and essayist, has received awards and mentions of associations of writers, cultural centers, universities, and related sites. Equally as speaker, lecturer and researcher, in universities, centers educational, public and private.

Author of book art: poetry, story and stories.

Author of educational books, various levels and topics.

Author of books of philosophy, ontology and metaphysics.

Author of books of self-help and Coaching.

His books are distributed in the five continents, are regular consultation in libraries in the world, and are registered in the catalogues, ISBNs and international bibliographic databases.

They are translated into multiple languages and they can be found in the international bookstores, both on paper and in electronic version.

Websites where to learn or acquire other works of the author:

http://migueldaddariobooks.blogspot.com

Introduction

Since mankind exists, we have felt the need to communicate, to express our feelings, to cultivate our imagination and we have done it through a gift that differentiates us from the rest of living beings. Writing is a vocation, born from a need of each person. It is an inner manifestation, a communicational expression, be it artistic, scientific or of another literary genre. It is a property of the human being, communication through writing. This means that each one will do it in their own way and form, in the same way that each reader will interpret the content of a book, magazine or other, in a different way, understanding according to their own abilities and knowledge.

San Buenaventura de Bagnoregio, wrote in the thirteenth century, that there were four ways to make a book:

1: As a Writer (Scriptor): Someone who writes works of others without adding, changing or removing anything from the original text.

2. As a compiler (Compilator): Someone who writes works of others with additions that are not theirs (also from others)

3. As a commentator (Comentator): Someone who writes works of others as well as their own, giving priority to other people’s work with added explanatory texts.

4. As an Author (Auctor): Someone who writes works of his own as well as other people’s, but giving priority to his texts and adding the outsider’s to asset his own text.

That’s why a person who writes is, definitely, an Author, whether if they have published their work or not.

The word  

It can be used in different ways: sometimes the main use is to transmit clear and exact ideas; sometimes it is pretended to create beauty, to impress the receiver by means of a message elaborated specially with such purpose. This is the literary language, literature’s own form of expression.

At first, literature was oral, transmitted from mouth to mouth or represented before an audience. Afterwards, through a slow process, it became written as the time passed and society progressed.

Its definitive development arrived with printing, which facilitated the diffusion of books as well as the access to reading in a fast and effective way.

Then the word Literature reached its full meaning (from Latin Littera: letter).

The essential characteristic that distinguishes literature from other arts, is that it uses the language as primary material.

Literature

Art that uses the word as an instrument.

Contains not only poetic productions, but also works that include aesthetic elements, such as rhetoric, historical and didactic ones.

The literary creation

In the linguistic communication there are several functions, one of them is the poetic function, and it’s the one who gives rise to the literary work.

The literary language obeys to aesthetic motivations, thus, its objective isn’t to inform about something, but to create something, that work that’s interesting by itself.

How does an Author create?

They start from an objective reality (the outside world), their own individuality (experience and personal character, hence its connotative character), they use the resources of the language and create another reality, that becomes that work (poem, novel).

The literary work is a verbal and linguistic product.

The literary language

Literary language is born from the personal use that the Author makes of his language.  The Author selects, combines and arranges more like a way of expression rather than a communication method. The important thing is not just what is said, but the way it is said. In it, the words are selected according to different standards from that of the regular language.

Categorization

Since it’s a personal use, its forms are many, although they can be classified attending to:

Character of the work

From the point of view of the form:

•  Narrative (Actions are told).

•  Descriptive (The aspect of persons and things is shown).

•  Dialogue (Conversations are reproduced).

•  Expositive (Ideas or feelings are expresed).

•  Argumentative (Reasons to convince others of an idea are cited).

Details

The Author writes to be read, thus, he doesn’t use expressive formulas so intricate that they can’t be understood.

The literary work may have a different meaning for each reader, attending to the personal circumstances that may concur in each one of them.

Two types of readers can be distinguished

•  The one who simply evades the surrounding world, this type of reader plunges into another reality that they created in their imagination.

•  The one who doesn’t consider this to be enough, thus they make a critical reading, and they question themselves: how has it been made, which are the themes that bring the work together.

Writer

The writer feeds his vocation with words, they’re nurtured from words. For the writer, writing is a way of life.

But, in most cases the writer needs to potentiate their creativity and set themselves a pace.

They must recognize the internal voice that dictates them, organize their ideas and schedule their literary project. To achieve their objectives, they must be aware that a rough ride awaits them.

They need to know the technique, the tools of the writer, they’ll have to read many books and write plenty of drafts. 

There are different types of writers depending on the way they write and publish.

Types of writers

Autobiographical: Everything passes through their lives, everything has occurred in their lives. That’s why they don’t hesitate to write about it, and not only in their publications, each presentation, each lecture, each comment is related to their experiences.

Imaginative: They let their imagination loose, and then they develop it in their publication. They combine reality and fiction over and over again, unscrupulously. They create a different world for each reader.

Historical: They know the history of mankind and that gets them to write chapters that recreate moments that have marked a before and an after. Usually, they extract a small, beautiful story from a great milestone and portray it to detail, giving less leadership to the characters than to the historic event itself.

Adventurer: The adventures of the characters from their books are authentically extraordinary, but they are so well narrated that they seem to be experienced by the own author. Their profile is that of a person that has traveled a lot, that has visited unusual places and that narrates perfectly in each paragraph.

Poet: With a more romantic profile, they identify themselves with a unique style when writing, also when living their lives. They are bohemian, daydreamers, they are persons of special treatment that mind each letter that comes out of their pen.

Self-demanding: Everything has to be perfect

The design of the cover, the side covers, the biography, each phrase of their publications, the place of the book presentation, its marketing and communication strategy, and in that way, the success arrives. Everything is calculated, even the sales of their works that, usually are outstandingly good.

Reading as interpretation

Every artistic process needs, in addition to an issuer, a receiver. Receiving, listening or reading the literature, takes part of the artistic process.

The receiver judges the degree of originality of the texts, their technical quality, their inspirations or their goals. Everything new either amazes them or disgusts them; they mock what is reused or they amuse themselves comparing the different works in which they appear; they reject complex texts; or enjoy exploring their meaning; assume   new knowledge and ideas or accept the delight that the text produces on them.

In short, they recreate the literary work, as if they were the author himself. Put in that way, the reception of literature isn’t a passive act. The smile or the laughter, the emotion or the weeping, the anger or the rage, the suspension or the shiver are frequent reactions of the reader before a text, although they are not the only ones. When somebody reads, they compromise their intelligence, their sensibility, and their vision on society.

Besides, if, they do so in a thorough and conscious way, the possibilities of personal enrichment that the literature offers, increases in a considerable way.

The author is immersed in a period, a country, a social class, a cultural tradition and part of their experiences to write, by either accepting or rejecting them.

It is usually spoken about three fundamental  genres:

Lyric

Narrative

Drama

1. Lyric

•  It’s an insight on the author’s own self. Everything that’s subjective is manifested: emotions, feelings, thoughts. There may be three approaches.

•  The expression of an emotion before an event.

•  The event that moves the poet approaches him in an encounter.

•  The author expresses their most intimate feelings.

2. Narrative

•  It