Post by account_disabled on Dec 29, 2023 22:29:45 GMT -5
The first novella of Boccaccio's Decameron brings its plot back to the beginning: Ser Cepparello deceives a holy friar with a false confession and dies; and, having been a terrible man in life, he died reputed to be a saint and called San Ciappelletto. More hasty than Boccaccio Rabelais in his Gargantua and Pantagruel . The first chapter reads: Of the genealogy and antiquities of Gargantua Even Miguel de Cervantes gets by with little. Another first chapter as an example: In which he talks about the condition and habits of the famous knight.
Quixote of La Special Data Mancha Ditto for our Collodi in his Pinocchio : How it happened that Master Cherry, a carpenter, found a piece of wood, crying and laughing like a child. But up to this point we have remained in Europe. In Wang Shih-Chêng's Chin P'ing Mei (Plum Blossom of the Golden Vase), a 16th-century Chinese novel, the same thing happened. The first chapter again: In the intoxication of the heart, His-Mên forms the brigade of ten. Wu Sung meets his brother's wife with icy reserve.
Why in many works of the past did the author insert a sort of summary at the beginning of each chapter - or novella? A custom? Or was it intended to intrigue the reader by giving him some ideas about the content of the chapter? Following that example can be useful as a starting point for writing the plot of our chapters. One or two lines to frame the content of the chapter. And then develop them into a broader discussion. Do you write chapter plots? This, obviously, is the method I follow, the one I feel good at, even for short stories. I don't think there is one method that is better than the other: everyone must find their own.
Quixote of La Special Data Mancha Ditto for our Collodi in his Pinocchio : How it happened that Master Cherry, a carpenter, found a piece of wood, crying and laughing like a child. But up to this point we have remained in Europe. In Wang Shih-Chêng's Chin P'ing Mei (Plum Blossom of the Golden Vase), a 16th-century Chinese novel, the same thing happened. The first chapter again: In the intoxication of the heart, His-Mên forms the brigade of ten. Wu Sung meets his brother's wife with icy reserve.
Why in many works of the past did the author insert a sort of summary at the beginning of each chapter - or novella? A custom? Or was it intended to intrigue the reader by giving him some ideas about the content of the chapter? Following that example can be useful as a starting point for writing the plot of our chapters. One or two lines to frame the content of the chapter. And then develop them into a broader discussion. Do you write chapter plots? This, obviously, is the method I follow, the one I feel good at, even for short stories. I don't think there is one method that is better than the other: everyone must find their own.