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“I know that my story does not work, but I do not know where or how to catch the reader,” “the idea is good but to me it seems childish to want to write it…”,” I do not know what is the best beginning… “” I think the end is silent …”: these are some of the problems posed by the construction of a story and this book approaches them from different angles. Even experienced writers have ever suffered the anguish of not getting “round” the story or define the style. Writing is a necessity for some, a chance for many more. But how do you fix a story? What parameters to use? Where do I approach the text? “Corregir relatos” came to fill the gap in this field, to the perplexity the topic causes to beginners and writers who have some experience. The author reveals an efficient method for revision and rewriting, which includes specific applications for each part and every aspect of the narrative.

“El escritor y su oficio” is the result of screening and selection of various materials: excerpts from interviews, confessions, notes, letters, diaries, short stories, novels. It clarifies specific areas of the trade through different ideas of different subjects and demonstrates that being a writer is to know in depth the field. Writers become guides, step by step they contribute with their views on the indescribable desire to write and specific aspects of the narrative. The set is a fertile territory of suggestions and a tool for reflection and control of the text itself.

This guide helps the reader how to read better and to understand what are the rules of the reading game, and how to imposed his own ones. It helps to identify the tools one have to read a book and to have fun doing that. To the most passionate readers it proposes other ways to “enter” a text. To the one that still has not found which kind of book may seduce him, to discover it and be able to go through a text without feeling a shipwrecked person in this journey, from the first to the very last word. To all readers, it offers the most varied ways to be a reader, and the keys to fourty fundamental writers.

Rewriting a text should be a task as exciting as writing. Is the narrated idea confusing? Is it just plain? Did I say less or more than I should have done? Can be captured certain details that I wanted to highlight? Does the story get poor? Does what I say match with the way I want to say? Is there a peculiar style in my writing? What are the crucial points of the review? What should I remove or add? What are the advantages and difficulties offered by the adjective or verb tenses? When should I use a type of phrase or another? These are some of the problems and the resulting strategies to transform a story into a good story that we see in this book. “Cómo lo reescribo” is a working tool for those looking to finish perfectly a story or novel: how to make it concise, unique, meaningful, credible to the writer and, consequently, to the reader.

Sometimes, suddenly, a spark ignites your mind, you envision a scene, a phrase or even a word that you hint at the possibility of writing a novel. Your immediate reaction is to make this world you have just received the first revelation be born and grow. But where do you start? Do you know the procedures, the basic experiences to do so? If you've ever thought, “I sincerely hope to write a novel” or, even better, “I need to write a novel”, you must read this book because it will serve as an instrument of reflection and working method, and will allow you to design your own story.