Inferno #03 22 ноября 2002

Reflections - How to become a writer. Leadership.

                Yuri Nikitin

           How to become a writer

          (Yes, the manual!)


                 Chapter 1


   I have always been with someone so fought. Fought
and high-flown by idiots that broadcast on
the mysteries of creativity. Argued, and would argue that 
learning to write good books can be each. Even easier - 
bestsellers that bring a lot of money.


   I started writing this book in the 60's and 70's with
anger, the desire to prove that the writing in
Actually everyone can, as each may be
learn to play, say, royale.Pust not to
level of Richter, but soundly wizard, and
in the case of a writer - if not before the Lion
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (this is so out of modesty, but actually 
you can, and to their level and above), then at least to the 
extremely popular Dumas and Walter Scott. 

   And then, when he was a member of the Writers' Union, where 
he has been in the elite literary courses at the Higher 
Institute of Literature, shocked to learn that reinventing the 
wheel, that the techniques litvozdeystviya already exist! 
Common to all bazovye.Otlichiya begin at the peak, the steeple. 
But everyone still inventing this base

bike, spending on precious years of hard work, and then 
cowardly hides accumulated, so as not assembled, not seen, not 
used for free, it is blood and broken teeth!


   Alas, the years of wasted journeys sheets with
Records litpriemov, started at first. Then
was epic with the development company that purchased in 1990. 
Windows did not exist, transferred to DOS, and threw leaflets, 
but typed lost, gained again, erased by accident, something 
again able to write again, soon brushed away instead of another 
directory, in desperation turned off the computer, instead of 
to unerase! already had waved a hand at this venture, but it 
appeared this forum, the guys want write, and I'm that old 
crocodile, which knows how to write a necessary, though not 
himself wrote. Therefore, it is added rubrika.Kak already found 
at least the forum, there are people who Nikitin trust. And 
though someone very countries reported on the Internet that! 
"appeared Website of the writer, who writes in a very original 
way, but we are with you and I know that this is the author of 
the ad nauseam traditional, bore and neoriginalen that just as 
his books required such nastochertevshie with

during school programs attributes like images, themes, ideas, 
descriptions of nature and appearance! 

   Unfortunately, the book itself is not, and this file
will increase in parts, and when that
remember. This topic, like say the same
Webmaster or whoever he is, for lyubiteley.Lyubitel for fans. 
Geniuses of divine gift (you can even with a capital - 
according to God's Daru) here look not worth it. And so they

All umeyut.Eta topic, so to speak, for their own.

   So now about the writing. But
before the move to explain that only a savage knows, for 
example, only three times: past, present and future, and man

even the middle knows the Russian language and twenty-nine (for 
example, passed a one-time: smoked, walked, loved, and since 
repeated - Kuriwao, hazhival, lyublival elapsed inchoative - 
and well, puff, and blow up! etc.) should first determine 
whether the you, so to speak, the basic dannye.Da yes, basic. 
But not those, which let in fog from the Stone Age, the 
priests. I'm talking about these data, without which creativity

generally do not, and the road only
janitors, mechanics, managers or presidents
countries that actually flush. If
not so, say, who ruled the mighty Spain, where one-armed 
soldier wrote, "knight"? 

   The first thing to the future writer
- It is indestructible confidence, self-confidence, even 
arrogance. Clearly, it is unlikely need to show it to people 
who do not appreciate the bastards, but to be self-confident in

one hundred and more, neobhodimo.I believe that
if not tonight, then tomorrow, so just collect the harvest 
nobelevok, by the end of the week can already walk on the 
central square with its monument to the natural growth

Statue of Liberty, and the women will break the caps and throw 
under your Rolls roys.Zachem arrogance? Otherwise, it will not 
work. Man with normal mentality used twice a month to get paid. 
Though small, but regularly. Though not work, though terpimo.A 
writer? First barrier of the writer (as and artist): will or 
will not work shedevr.Normalny person refuses to immediately:

six months to write, to hunch over the keyboard, and
suddenly so we'll drop halfway? AND
everything is done under the cat's tail? Yes, for no
what! A shameless self-confident so taken: to get, and how! 
More and medals hang round! Then, after long labors rises 
another barrier: take in the ed-ve or not take? And finally the 
third: to pay or not pay? Or maybe not? Normal people just do 
not dare to even begin such usloviyah.A brazen says 
confidently: get, take, pay, and even many at once! Of these 
abnormal, of course, 99% otseetsya, everybody knows it, but 
still everyone is sure that he would be those who will survive 
and get all the cakes. 

   So what about the talent, inspiration, insight, and other 
abstract subjects hazy here to search not worth it. That window 
dressing in order to make it easier shoot beautiful fools, and 
disengage from They simply referring to a call. Even desirable, 
though not mandatory desperately, that the author sawed off his 
feet, broke the backbone, or at least knocked the eye. In 
short, any malformation is welcome, because then the vital 
power that goes into fists and below, far below, were forced 
sublimated into spiritual energy. For example, when two steep a 
knight in battle cut off one thing - hand another - a leg, is 
unable to swing swords, willy-nilly, have earned their heads.

Which, naturally, without the need for young
and krasivym.V result, one after unsuccessful attempts to write 
poetry, tales, made the novel "Don Quixote" and the second, 
which leg, after unsuccessful attempts to write poetry

and tales, has created a special order of chivalry
monastic type, whose members were not
cassocks, their goal was to create a new equitable society, 
whose motto was "The great aim justifies any means" or "All 
means are good to achieve the great goal, and a personal motto 
of a knight was: "Calm is worse than the terrible storm."


   Erudite man immediately remembered
Brave young communist, who, if he had not
broke the ridge, would be in the best case
ordinary secretary of Komsomol, or even
District Party Committee, and prikovannopostelny wrote "How the 
Steel Was Tempered" "By the way, among members of the Writers' 
Union as anywhere legless, armless, the blind, bedridden, If

you are all intact, it is worse, but not hopeless.
After all, can be even life-saving systems, which no one can 
see, but you do not feel quite full and try to become even 
steeper, and the literature is precisely the sports hall, where 
you can improve before you even beskonechnosti.Pust handsome 
and the athlete, but because not all women in the world yours, 
somewhere in Australia for you do not know how to hurt, though 
topis with grief, but if you write awesome book, and there will 
come running to throw at your car, and Miss Universe will seek 
your vnimaniya.K same writing provides a rare and enticing 
opportunity in one leap to gold Users: who needs funny literary

institutions, Ph.D., Ph.D., the title
academics, where only old age gets the opportunity of 
scientific creativity! A so: Can you read? At least to spell? 
So already you can and write. 

   The third necessary condition: to burn the bridges
behind. To have nowhere to retreat. That
as a normal person after two or three unsuccessful attempts to 
wag his hand and say: why knock, when it is not open? How much 
effort is lost for nothing! And then I pay is itself and goes. 
Just because I go to work. And if we work, we can and

Award request. And those who work stuff
(Well, I did not want to be caster as
strongly advised to criticism and well-wishers! Did not want 
to), to nowhere to retreat. That will burst, pumped up muscles, 
improve, and "victory will come! 

   So when it comes to the violin or
piano, no one seems to be not deny the need for talent, even 
though no one knows what it is. At the same time everyone is 
clear that we must play range, develop your fingers, practice or

at least to learn what key beeps, but some growls. But when it 
comes to literature, everyone says that hath need, with talent, 
talent! On the skill nor the word about professionalism -

molchok about literary devices - no gu-gu
nor kukareku.Tolko talent, talent, talent, sir!
On the wings of this error is just on fire. Write a novel can 
really vsyakiy.Dazhe publish its dengi.Tolsty,

in bright cover with gold lettering. With or without naked 
broads, with vignettes. Only read it will only author. He novel

Like, he really did not understand why
others spit. A secret prost.Pishuschemu
only need something to place on a sheet of paper
Contingent badges. Them something about thirty
do not remember exactly, plus or minus five, and only
total. And in the human brain, which looks
on these icons, there is a complex recoding, he begins to see 
the frames, images, pictures, his heartbeat quickens, it delays 
the breath, laughing, crying, and from the seemingly simple 
stares at sheet of paper with neat rows of pretty unpretentious 
icons. Yes, but the laughs and cries, if written 
professionalno.Esli not, one sees just znachki.Perekodirovka

is only in the brain Author: looks at his
icons and mentally adds those who do not
managed to put on paper. And resents
idiots that do not understand his great work.

   So this book is about how to properly dispose these same 
icons. In fact, the author acts in the role of a wise rabbi, 
who was in the midst of the post caught with bare other women 
in a bathhouse, a snack when wine pork and yelling obscene 
songs: friends do, As I say, not what they do! Yes, because

commercial considerations and even the desire to
time to publish begun years that the author sometimes produces 
a novel! "Well, to put it mildly, which could uluchshit.Tem 
more, he knows how. But you is not linked to any release dates, 
no age! Can build a book perfect, clean out all the roughness, 
and All almaziki turn into diamonds! AND

take once all the women, all awards and prizes!
Thus, we begin a book about literary devices!


                 Chapter 2


   At first, stands to make a clear distinction between writing 
and journalism. These are two similar and related professions, 
they are sometimes combine, though rarely successful. First of 
all because the very basis of these professions

different approach.

   A journalist writes articles, essays, notes,
informashki, even documentaries knigi.Osnovnaya scope of 
publications - newspapers, zhurnaly.Velikolepnoy newspaper is 
the one people from first to last page reads fifteen 
minut.Prochityvaet and learns a lot while informatsii.Zapominaet

least until tomorrow, because in the morning other events
another dollar, other murders, marriages, divorces and scandals 
in government. 

   Different requirements dictate a different style.
Journalist must avoid bright language, beautifully constructed 
phrases that admire in Nabokov-Bunin-Astafieva. He obliged to 
write so that opinion was running in page quickly, without 
clinging, and immediately grabbed assimilate information. A 
writer writes not one day. The book is not released after the 
reading, as a newspaper, but in this case the claims to a 
method of spreading icons on paper or otherwise. 

   First: the writer must not write informatively and 
imaginatively. If on the fingers, the journalist writes: "MP 
angry deadhead" a writer so do not have the right to have on 
the status of the artist's words. He wrote something like: "The 
MP frowned deadhead" (clenched fists, ground his teeth, 
growled, snarled and etc.), that is, he draws a picture, but 
the astute reader, that's no hurry, though with difficulty, but 
all guessed that the deputy deadhead angry. 

   The writer does not write: "The MP was delighted deadhead" 
and let the resort to cliches, but Still images - lips parted 
in a smile, happily screamed, jumped, famously invited everyone 
to the buffet for his deputy account, etc.


   Of course, you should avoid cliches (clenched
fists and gnashed their teeth, etc.), but even the most squalid 
better just informative journalist. Of course, stamps and a 
stamp with they do not acquire the respect of colleagues, but 
the money zashib mozhno.Osobenno if planing detektivchiki or 
love story. There requirements much lower, and the readers 
easier than lovers of highbrow fiction. 

   About how to remove stamps - pozzhe.Sperva
- Basic.


   Basic. At primere.Prihodit friend hesitates, then with a 
very indifferent kind of pulls manuscript hands: "I've been 
tales nakropal ... So, for yourself. Read it, may like it?" I 
immediately put up in fright before the a hand: "What are you 
saying" How can you? This for my part will swinishness. You 
wrote for myself, but I'll read your pussy? No

for anything! What do you you have me? "

   Each mumbles: "But I would like you to
I said ... about the publication ... "And here
game begins, he does not even understand, because I stubbornly 
refuse to: improper to read what people wrote for themselves. 
"This worse than reading someone else's letters, though they 
are written differently, but here right blog! friend tries to 
get read, and more clicks on the fact that "it would print ..." 
I on your own for publishing obscene is

that is written for himself.

   Finally, if only something from
understand, I ask: so for themselves or for
Print? He was angry at my stupidity, is screaming that at least 
for myself, but wants to see it is published! Then, seeing 
what's next will not catch him, slapped his forehead and 
explains the first rule is that if for yourself, a loved one, 
then you can write everything. Himself themselves understand 
anyone. And what you do not understand, then guess. By blot or 
dropped by a tear. And if others, here come into By completely 
different zakony.Do another person still must get through. And 
this requires special litpriemy which are mandatory. If not, 
then excuse me ... 

   Here the last time he bristles and
mumbles that he wrote all the same for themselves.
Immediately offered him the manuscript, they say, take away,
read someone else's unethical and t.d.i t.p.On sighs and ... 
surrenders. Everything! He is in no matter what was wanting to 
see their work published. He is ready to listen. 

   Of course, this does not mean that will disagree. He is a 
hundred times argue that writing for myself, I have a hundred 
times stretch the manuscript back, he a thousand times to say 
that not once said, I'm a fool and do not understand, but I will

poke a finger in a line and say: here
so napisano.Vot those shaped as letters himself look, well
I do not think your chitayu.On: Well, I'll explain to you, 
stupid, and I: will explain and everyone who buys your book? 
"And if he reads in bed at night? With sleeping next to his 
wife? To whom are you hoping for fit?



   Basic. It is very important to learn to look
in his work as if from storony.Chuzhimi glazami.Chestno 
speaking, it seems to me that this is impossible, impossible to 
fully, but Still there are a number of professional

techniques.

   First came the beginning of the century, when life
flowed slowly: to put the finished manuscript in a distant box, 
do not touch it for six months, when engaged in other delami.A 
again pull out, look through different eyes, immediately

begin to notice the error, see how
correct to the best. Second: put briefly, then put himself into 
a state of irritable, sarcastic, imagine that It is not your 
manuscript, and authors that you not averse to bypass the 
finish pryamoy.I then will discover in it a lot more flaws than 
the themselves, beloved, talented, amazing!


   Third: to read the manuscript of his friends. But neither 
the means not to say that this yours. Otherwise lash out nice 
words, everyone knows how painful the author responds to

any remark in his address! By the way, I showed my manuscript 
as "Ivan Crocodiles" (At a seminar of science fiction in 
Moscow, 1976) Ivan Croatia (WFC, 1079-1981), and still under

dozens of others who do not remember.
Under some even published, awkwardly
had to admit that cheating. And when
"Ravlike" helped to ship books to get involved
in discussions about books Nikitina, he criticized it, and 
never surprised: the movers bookstores IQ slightly higher

than in beer stores.

   In fact, from time to time I will refer to personal 
experience. I promise not to do this often not to obrydlo, and 
personal experience only Nikitina - this is not a personal 
experience Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, but I'll take

only those cases that are likely to have been and
these great and will be with you.

   When I was in the mail sent its first
manuscript in the "Young Guard" out soon
came to review. Nine-tenths of the criticism, advice, what to 
delete, what to throw, that the remake, which replaced that 
clean up, and at the end of a line; they say, the manuscript of 
a talented, I recommend to publish a mass scale. Well, the last 
lines of the attention is not paid, it is there and so clear, 
not even just a talented and sverhtalantlivaya, but like the 
idiot, this fool, this do not understand beast dared to do me 
comments when and reads for sure to spell out, splashing

lips?

   In a rage, threw a stupid review on
bottom of a drawer and tried to forget. AND
only by chance years later pyatsem bumped, pulled, he read and 
how you butt the forehead! Just thought of yesterday

one tricks to make the story more interesting, and this moron 
already advised well done! .. And then - huzhe.On advised

and here is how to clean the tongue, but I'm doper that
language must be cleaned of weeds, less than a year
ago! And here is the idiot remark, it seems,
too good! Hell, so he's more then advised how to write better! 
If I were an idiot listened, then five years ago, has managed 
to dramatically raise their level! "And so the years under the 
tail, was bursting at the window, not noticing the number of 
open door to reinvent the wheel!


   Moral of this long retreat in
a happy childhood in that study did not
necessarily from their mistakes. Possible and on
slips of the fool, what was the author of these
lines. (Exclamation Optimist: Oh, what a fool
I was! It is understood that it is now a hoo
how clever!). And the conclusion: anyone who criticizes you - 
working for you. Better than he is now in manuscript, than 
readers tirazha.A one that simply says nice things, of course,

nice man, listen - it is a pleasure,
You can call the wife and the mother: Look, fools,
what people say about me, but "I repeat: the most
simple way - to read his manuscript to another, as chuzhuyu.Mol 
gave here is one, asked to read and speak their opinions, but I 
everything once, if not read, and I tell him your opinion as 
his own. 

   It is very important to maintain face and voice.
Especially when one begins to pluck the feathers of the 
writing. Endure, not to rush to defend a brilliant 
proizvedenie.Ne call an idiot and do not beat on golove.Luchshe 
give more someone. And yet. Even the best one can

err. But if the five-why we say that you're drunk, do not 
argue, but go to sleep. 


   Today is one of basking in this weather the fireplace Lilies 
friends carefully observed The Forum does not suffer if Nikitin 
some deviations, once allowed to the women so

humiliate Targitai in the "Valley"! Alas, one of the
mandatory requirements of literature - not
otodzhestvlyat himself with the hero. Let him
beat, stomp, even hit hard. Of course, not
injury, it is also seen in all films and TV series, where the 
villain is killed in a moment at his side shoot (a bow or gun), 
and the hero, having received the full clip at point blank 
range Being shot down a heavy truck and on top of hitting a 
roller, gets dented, but with justifiable thirst for vengeance.


   Hero of the need from time to time, or throw in a torture 
chamber, or allow to offend otherwise, to continue his massacre 
seemed justified. If, say, Chuck Norris, who now goes 
victoriously in an infinite series, came out into the street 
and began to flail his arms and legs of passers-by, this would 
be for him when he nepriyazn.No vrezhut in the face, and his 
solicitor in which once almost raped, tear her blouse

even in moments of peace lily sweet massacre shouted: "What are 
you arresting him? killed on the spot!" 

   This is the standard speed, it can be seen at all
grossing films (for example - "Rambo"), throughout
world literature (eg. - "Odyssey"). Reception
that three-quarters of the hero product
beaten, trampled, insulted, he now and then bob muzzle against 
the door, does not understand anything! During this time the 
reader time to penetrate not only sympathy but also filled with 
thirst for revenge. And then, when the hero is destroy rogues 
that drinking and shitting in his house, but still want his 
wife Penelope, we themselves not only to condone the beating 
and fifty grooms, but also regret that no kick their bodies 
down. 

   Conclusion: The favorable character - is uninteresting.


   Actually, this paragraph in the book itself should be
will throw away, deep down. Where we are
will focus on fine-tuning of the text. But now, when
year, a teaspoon, then someone will bother only the basic basic 
yes. Someone has already steep, if we do not improve their 
remarkable, then tomorrow morning already incurred in the 
House, so that it should at least drop by drop, but give it 
elementary that we can learn simultaneously with the base.


   Text: Do not hang on every tree plaque with the inscription: 
"The Tree". Moreover, once hanged, then snyat.To is, strike out 
a long, boring explanation, without which so all ponyatno.Vse 
these explanations, which so often, unfortunately, there are 
simply razdrazhayut.Nikto not like being mistaken for an idiot.


   But most importantly, that it harms the very fabric
product reduces the dynamics. It's a reminder about the tree is 
generally hang before my eyes, from time to time to stumble, 
bethink, to find in his remarkable work of these boards -

and they will be, each of them hangs up,
but not everyone takes off! - and shoot, shoot,
shoot! It's the same in the language: to remove the many weeds 
that understands nuisance and uncomprehending simply spoil

impression. Impossible to list them all,
will point to one, perhaps the most frequent, and
it is possible to understand what I'm trying to explain.

   For example, when a beginner wants to write the phrase: "He 
reached into his pocket, then umnichaya necessarily adds:" He 
put his hand in his pocket, from which it immediately clear what

honest, is not helpful to fumble on another's pockets.
Or: wore my coat, took his umbrella, and
etc. and so that is understandable to the Englishman, they have
his and her articles are required, but you will sometime in
a number of pitchers? ..

   If a newcomer wants to write a clever,
someone nodded, then be sure to ask,
that the nod, as if you can nod
something else! There are craftsmen who make up
phrase even steeper, "he nodded his head."
Such books can be immediately cast, because of
Siim pearls can see the overall level of creation.
Sometimes there are champions: "He nodded
his head in agreement! "Hello?" But
and this, says one on TV, more
not vse.Odnazhdy I met did a masterpiece: "He
nodded his own head in
agreement, confirming what was said! "Well, here it
noncommissioned Prishibeev his utopshim corpse a dead man - top 
styles. 

   Letters, as you know, going into words.
Words are like everyday that we use, as well as dialect, slang, 
slang, writing, makaronizmy, official etc., continue to bend 
the fingers themselves. If list everything you'll need to 
unshoed the whole family. 

   Out of a hundred thousand Russian words (Y Leo Tolstoy, 
saying, vocabulary under 400,000), accounting for less everyday 
accounts quarter of one percent, but they are

ninety-eight percent of our speech. K
Speaking of journalism and writing: the
less reporter goes beyond everyday words, the higher its level 
of professional, while the writer has to use everyday words 
only if you have not found the words "zakrugovyh. 

   Let me explain with an example:

   In the middle, - words everyday. Scale,
clearly not met, otherwise obihodku would draw from the amoeba 
medium-sized and the region other Russian words -

to orbit the solar system.

   If a writer uses words from the center, at best, he likened 
the journalist, who quickly retells the car accident to 
immediately switch your attention to the dollar. Words are 
familiar, run-in, now they do not narisuesh. Even with great 
talent and great skills. Talent, even wild, instinctive

tends away from the center in search of bright nezatertyh words 
that prick account cause certain associations from them smell 
the freshness, the reader will immediately feel the breeze, the 
smells, hear the roar, knock! Conclusion: if want to become a 
journalist - just use the words of tsentra.Esli want to do 
prose bright, colorful, exciting - looking words as possible 
from the center. 


   Another seditious truth: in order
to write well, to write! a lot. With
the Soviet era, which regulated all, approved the rules: the 
writer should produce no more than one book in three year. It 
was such an order, and lived. The only exception is for winners

Lenin Prize.

   Obliging Intel, our intellectuals
in this case is the lackey, was chosen justification that, say, 
one must carefully handle the language, form, work on the 
product, was copied several times, as did great: Tolstoy, 
Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Yes, indeed - is not enough alone, "War 
and Peace" to immortalize the name? Or "Eugene Onegin" The rest 
we could not write like! 

   But in this case, the fees can not survive, and Soviet 
writers moonlighting vystupleniyami.Tolstogo vile and other

great draw to cover their avtoritetami.V this case to argue is 
not accepted, the people we have such, but it is worth 
recalling that in Tolstoy published 90 volumes of incredible 
thickness, each elephant can swat a fly, Dostoevsky, too solid 
Collected Works, I can not say how many volumes, I only have 
favorites, even in Pushkin, who died in 37 years, the 
collection includes many volumes! And how would they be if to 
our great write the book every three year?


   The fact that writing, like any
craft, perfected only in the process. I have often compared it 
with the sport is not because I myself spent many hours pumping 
the muscles or trying to run on fraction of a second faster, 
but because the analogy the sport is obvious. You can not build 
up skills, lying on the couch. We need to work on many hours. 
Work up a sweat. 

   Yes, replied the same obrazovannik (which we somehow feel an 
intellectual) here and work, copied the same thing, to perfect 
the language sections phrases vygranivay metaphor! He is right, 
but only napolovinu.Ottachivat themselves in the language, it 
is to stay in the development of new themes, ideas, stories. 
Everyone who writes knows that it is in the process of writing, 
there are dozens of new ideas, stories, turns, and so want to 
throw it as obsolete, and grasp the new, more vivid! 

   If you stay a very long time to perfect the first thing is 
to brighter things can simply not reach the queue. I do not 
think that "Sevastopol Stories", which brought fame to Lev 
Tolstoy, would make his recognized genius, as would be great

not perfected the style, language and images!

   Yes, the writer must write a lot. How much? Each has its own 
measure of capacity, as well as a sense of when something is 
considered complete and pass into print. But he must to move 
from thing to thing, because only in This is the key to its 
growth. 

   True, if you move too fast,
remain raw, unpolished, and even
altogether incomplete, in the end will cause a fair 
razocharovanie.Nuzhna golden mean between the infinite 
sharpening style - any thing can be improved again and again - 
and the desire to quickly implement a new paper erupted in the 
brain of dazzling themes, ideas and images! 

   In addition to the literature, as elsewhere, the golden 
rule: from all that has been created, only 10% deserves 
vnimaniya.Vse else, saying in accessible language! ahem! 

   But not all read in Dumas, who wrote two novels, hundreds or 
more? Or at Tolstoy? Dostoevsky? Pushkin? .. All the same

ten percent. And even if the remaining
ninety Pushkin above top ten Vasey
Vaskina of Uryupinsk, yet we read Pushkin's ten, and ninety 
when to buy, then only as a tribute to the master. Stop Pushkin 
file away my childhood poetry to perfection, would get up to 
Eugene Onegin? 

   And yet - the writer, as an athlete is judged
not the mass of his work, and the peaks, a record,
bursts. Who knows how many actually
Homer wrote the poems, many chess battles lost to Kasparov, and 
it really "A Tale of Division Kotovs'kogo" (author - Nikolai 
Ostrovsky) lost in the mail, or as it is simply dumped in the 
wording as hopelessly weak?



   This piece of text to be closer to the end, but the MB, 
something needs to be portions that are not feel sick of the 
monotony of the material? As in novel, we must remember that 
one and the same portion of the brain washed by the cold, noble 
heart, and not very legible genitals. Consequently, it is 
impossible to give some boring moralizing, a portion of the 
blood has gone down to the heart, he needs a chase, the clank 
of swords, knocking hooves, but not to stay here, because

blood went even lower, lower! But there can not be
linger, no giant does not'll have to stay
in bed the whole novel, has already begun sublimation, it is 
time to throw a piece of meat hungry brain! 

   So, a few words about the time
writer should be able to use skillful,
than a deputy or a member of the government. Look at the 
elapsed time. So: 

   past long-repeated, long-
elapsed: hazhival, Kuriwao, lyublival, beer!

   Involuntary instantaneous energetic:
come.

   Imperative: to come,

   Effectiveness: come.

   Elapsed time may be either imperfective: wave and the 
perfect: wag,


   Involuntary: and Makhno

   Random: max (hand, for example)

   Pluperfect: mahival,

   Inchoative: how to swing!

   A bit much? Yes, it is neither remember nor ispolzovat.Togda 
currently worth to mention no more than two: general (planets 
revolve around the sun, the universe is expanding, and the 
like) and active (she paints her lips. The eagle soars along 
with me), and from the future also a couple of times:


   Perfect: Makhno

   Ineffective: I will wag.

   While the immediate need to prevent it
Filigree already lapping on which little
Who decides who is a little effort and
time (but must still withstand the pressure of publishing at 
Rodney, readers, and especially an empty pocket?). filigree to 
begin processing costs if the product cleaned almost bleska.A 
is such a rarity! To start, when the trees have been cleared of 
all signs with the words "tree" when there is a shift in the 
character of the protagonist, and this is the only measure of 
talent or whatever call is the ability to do work.

What serials
and terrible, why is always worse than the continuation of
first book (series), because if the first book hero can go from 
fool to the wise, from coward to hero, then what remains on the 
second and the third? You can, of course, find countless 
treasures to accompany the new and the new princess from point 
A to point B, winning for himself the kingdom, but if the hero 
on the last page is the same, how and appeared on the first, if 
the character is not changes occurred, then no matter how 
brilliantly was written a novel, he is just another board

in the fence. Even from a good tree.
Even vystrugana good master.

   I remember I once hung above the table
shocked when the words of Turgenev:
"The woman - just a function." Say,
just a literary device. At first, stunned, as Turgenev in some 
textbooks singer women, their elegance! Was confirmed

even the definition of "Turgenev girl," as
sample purity, innocence, and other qualities that are so 
appreciated in these suschestvah.I suddenly, such cynicism! But 
alas, this is so. For example, his most famous - "Fathers and 
Sons". (The rest are written by the same recipe,

check for yourself). New media markets
ideas of nihilism. All the doctors, all
deeds and words such as "Nature is a temple
a workshop, and people in it - the worker,
approve a new human, socialist, dangerous and incomprehensible 
older generation. A seeing the beauty, said something like: 
what body, what a splendid body! Interestingly, how it will 
look at the anatomy table? 

   And this staunch and Ultra long
Superman nihilist, whom no one could
not something to break, but even shake! broken, unable to 
withstand the test was a woman. 

   So, in the literature a woman - just
funktsiya.Funktsiya proizvedeniya.Holodny professional 
reception. 

   Another very important consideration - the novelty
themes, ideas, or even images. The image - in
last place, of course, the theme or idea is more important, but 
still as hard to find a new way! 

   But when found and successfully registered, then
enough to utter only the word "Oblomov"
"Othello," "Don Quixote" "Don Giovanni" that once stood images 
of the entire titanic power! .. Man can be called at least 
loafer, Oblomov though, everyone understands that there is a

vidu.A many beautiful images (from the point
of a professional) brought Gogol? Sobakevich, Chichikov, 
Manila, Plyushkin, Khlestakov! 

   Want to challenge? At a meeting in
not the end of the 60's, not in the early 70's I got to the 
meeting of the Children's pisateley.Odin Dukes of literature 
from the rostrum just promised golden mountains that will come 
up with the image of Russian children's hero. After all, go on 
shoal Russian Winnie-the-Puhi English, Italian

Chippolino, Swedish Carlson, all there and Pinocchio Pinocchio! 
A little later, some Cheburashka came from the eastern 
countries, suspiciously caught on, shpien cursed with a 
stranger crocodile friends could with the Russian bear! .. In 
short, someone who will come up with your children's hero, that 
laureatstvy any, of the Order and choose the award itself: what 
you want and all you want. Apartments, villas, cars, women and 
other trifles - no bills! Take it, enjoy it, just give her, or 
national. 

   This zadachka, incidentally, has not been solved. AND
Although the Soviet regime collapsed! but what
then what power? His hero's worth
create in any way.

   Now it is clear that such a good image?


   Yes, he can see that messy. But do not want
save for a few years, when it is now
guys write a series of novels in the "Princely
feast. "These scattered notes can benefit now!

   And then, someday, if there will be time and
force, we reduce these entries together skomponuem,
even will publish booklets, which will be convenient
and browse on the couch.


   The novelty of the theme! It may not necessarily be new, or 
the winner would be the one who, say, the first to describe a 
new accelerator Voodoo-2.Novizna topics most often associated 
with the revision builded views on privychnost.Chtoby chance to 
break habitual, should be even more so than talent, and have 
just smelostyu.Dazhe fearlessness. Dare say other than 
everything. Decent and blagopoluchnye.Umnye and all-knowing.


   For example, all have always known that most
highest and noblest of genres - a ballad. The most sublime and 
spiritual. Also, everyone knew that the most vile and bestial 
accumulates in the soldiers' barracks. This is especially 
noticeable was in the days of Victorian England, when the 
gentlemen were a real gentleman and lady! of these were

Lady! .. And there was not more serious people than
stupid soldiers, no place more disgusting than
barracks, where nothing is heard except the dirty mat! "And 
then a crazy released his first collection of poems called" 
barracks ballads. "I do not even try tell that this has caused.


   But the poet was still alive. And released the second
collection with even more provocative title -
"Departmental songs." And in England
no more boring routine occupations,
than departmental klerk.Nash accountant at
its background is still an eagle! But the accountant to sing!

   Yes, with portraits of Kipling looks like
and must watch the Nobel Prize, an example for British 
schoolchildren, and even vzroslyh.No would not get it on the 
portraits, if it had not started with such controversial 
revisions already familiar literary themes! 

   Here we have to touch the most important
features of our psyche. Alas, our memories
chooses to remember is not smart, but for some reason 
emotsionalnoe.Vo Homeric times were singers smarter, in 
Shakespeare's time playwrights were able to compose all the 
wise and preachy play, but human memory retained the "Iliad," 
where a ten-year war killed all Trojans and all the Greek 
heroes (only Odysseus and Menelaus returned alive, even though 
Ulysses was returning for another ten years, and at home found 
the house and looted committing excesses guests), Shakespeare 
in "Hamlet," the final scene littered with corpses, Romeo and 
Juliet die, Othello, Desdemona udavlivaet, King Lear dies, 
tentatively in terrible sufferings kukuknuvshis!


   Alas, we have a monkey, or simply barbarians, but
wise perceive, when wrapped in either
bloody tangle of murder, either in the form ax
suspended on a belt loop under his coat.
If you meet on the street in the savage beast
Skin, declaim poem, remember
more stanzas than if the same poem
recited a familiar stooped bespectacled.


   So, for the impact of the novel that will attract the 
attention required! or highly desirable new topics and new 
idei.Tolko not rush immediately to put into icons on the screen 
companies that seem novym.My all live in one world, we eat the 
same bread, we listen the same news, and usually think the same 
stereotypes algoritmikami.To that seems at first glance, the 
revolutionary, just come to mind staggeringly new idea is 
likely to come back in three to five thousand. And in the 
evening of typed much more! 

   And even those that seem really new, we must consider very 
carefully. Chichi current issue of Good and Evil, where Good is 
not good and evil and not evil at all - is not a new 
revolutionary idea. Hired killer-killer, who stalks through the 
screens and the pages of novels - it's still not a hero in a 
suit from Versace was not rituals, and what would be blonde not 
given to protect. It is a challenge canons - da.Vyzov from the 
series When competing, who at a dinner party at

Queen louder ruin the air.

   There is not even ahead of sluggish literature, and computer 
igry.Esli couple of years what was still a choice for whom to 
fight: the red or white, it is now proposed only one way: Davie 
all pedestrians and oncoming vehicles in the Break 
"Karmageddone" become a monster and kill all the knights that

dare to come down to you in "The Lord
Dungeon, "Stand racketeer, rob and kill
small businesses, bribed police
Create gangster empire in the "Legal Crime"! Now, when almost 
all the stupid flock of sheep dutifully passed on the side of 
evil, we must have the courage to fight for good ".. Just need 
to do differently than fathers grandfathers. To this present 
stage has seen in you not yesterday, and tomorrow.



   There is a sick theme, called purity
Russian language. Weird was that all
linguists, academics, professors, presidents,
Ministers of Culture and lumberjacks - all on
this side of the barricade, and beyond!
seems to be nobody. Or something dark, featureless
and nameless. Everything on this side of fighting
for purity, but on the other side a word that
should be de-pollute. But the battle goes. On
foreign words, like novopridumannye
(Neologisms, if anyone remembers the school) is
ohota.Ih peck, trample, chase the unknown
depth, but they somehow survive. In addition,
there are new, sly fit in
Sacred Russian language, originally homespun,
clean and spotless!

   Yes, this is nonsense! What is primordial, unchanging? Try 
to read "The Tale of Campaign "in the native language! Why are 
there" Word ", read poems Trediakovsky, Derzhavin! Polistayte 
to reform Russian orthography Peter the Great, our Russian 
edition! Will be able to without a translator? And after all 
Three hundred years ago! 

   Borrowing foreign words, we enrich the Russian yazyk.Ibo if, 
say, in English means a cab driver and a computer program, then 
we are already two different words and znacheniya.Kak, say, now 
familiar Slavic "horse" and Pecheneg "horse." And

so in all. As in the computer world, and
wherever we are ahead or merely passed
too close. They are forced to take their
familiar words, extending the value of one and
the same word, and we are comes over their linguistic palette. 
I write letters and mail, and they Email only, though with a 
quill pen on parchment, at least for Silicon Graphics. 

   People who "blyudut purity of language", is almost always 
good people. Honest and kind. Sincere. They really care about

Russian yazyke.Chto say? Only repeat that this is usually very 
good. Well, the mind is not all given, and an appreciation or 
krugozor.Chin academician easier to obtain than another gyrus. 
Well, it seems to them that protecting the Russian language 
from slang or makaronizmov they serve and protect 
Otechestvu.Vot! What can I say? Still not rob passers-by in the 
doorways, do not like fake company! 

   This is no offense was said to them (I even love them), and 
in defense of those who wrote books, articles and essays. The 
guys who started doing a series of "Princely Feast", it is 
necessary to protect both the villains and the good people who

quite honestly say: listen here
because all the others - are fools. I love
Fatherland, already so I'm right, always and in
all.


   Russian language, which has no English
rigid system of fixing the words in a sentence, even on paper 
gives an amazing freedom of intonation. Depending on whether

where vsobachite word changes meaning.

   For example, "The priest had a dog." Everything is clear: he 
had a dog and a cat. If same words rearranged as follows: "The 
priest dog was "at once too all ponyatno.Byla and now net.Ili" 
The dog was a priest, "All clear! And the priest's wife - a 
goat or a cat. 

   As you can see, the key word is always placed at the end of 
frazy.Konechno, in an oral conversation (the conversation is 
still on ICQ, chats) can put stress on any word, a wink or 
raise his voice, thereby changing sense, but in the "Forge" 
refers to the arrangement of letters on paper. 


   These lines should be placed in the very-very
end of the book. Will be placed if it is
written. And published.

   Because! Here you have gone through fire and water,
all suffered, borne and - finally! - won. Came to fame. On all 
sides running women, for whom everything is done, the president 
invites the Order of the Saviour of the Fatherland, Academy of 
Fine Arts invites you to bend your neck a laurel wreath, the 
pioneers are red tie, and the monarchists offer you a title

hereditary nobleman! No, once the prince.

   It starts testing copper tubes, which, alas, no one has yet 
proshel.Vo Anyway, just like this not remember

mogu.V head crawling all there Rostropovich, kiss the hand of 
the authorities in exchange for the award, and Here is a man at 
once so the move could not remember I can not.


   Okay, it's possible that they will
just you.

   The basic commandments of the Creator is practically
nobody should, unless someone somewhere
instinctively, but they are formulated, I
seems to be here for the first time.

   First: the most difficult, is simply unthinkable
difficult: who does not have to accept awards! No official from 
the hands of the authorities, for those thus becomes them to 
serve as a soldier writer - you know it! Not even from the 
hands of community committees, clubs and foundations. Case

Not only is that all someone so controlled. Anyway, these 
little groups gathered interest. After receiving the award from 
the hands of the circle to protect the butterflies, already 
embarrassed to say that caterpillars chew leaves and cause 
damage to gardens: If you take from the hands of the Nobel 
committee! Well, the creator must confuse the sea of ​​blood 
spilled by dynamite, on the crumbs from the sale of which 
established the prize! 

   Of course, someone is insulting to watch a show off in 
orders and medals, young and old Brezhnev, but in the world, 
there is another award! Of these, premiyanostsah say with 
amazement: "How did he get this title? (This award, etc.) not 
otherwise in relatives with such and such, or whether it raises 
shrimp such and such, but this such a major in their secret 
raspredelilovke! "It is better if they ask in surprise:" What, 
you're still not the winner? "and the organization will write a 
letter requiring you to assign at least the rank of Hero of 
Humanity. 

   Now the dawn of the New Mira.V old well
to leave and this wildness, when princeling or
just a gang chieftain graciously bestows a
their rogues and fools that were able to
please grovel or hilarious song. No matter what is said now that
princeling: president, prime minister or head of the Foundation,
the shaman is still a shaman, even if renamed to the Pope, the 
supreme mufti of the patriarch or archbishop. 

   Where sverhlaureaty, Heroes, lavronostsy Soviet system? .. 
Everyone saw their real tsenu.Vprochem seen togda.Kak and see 
the true price and the current winners, and laureatikam 
laureatishkam - they are legion chisla.Kazhdaya firm, a circle, 
the fruits of their print edition finest, most talented, at the 
same time sbyvaya Lohamei their imperishable works. 

   No need to refer to the West, where these laureatishek 
bolshe.Tam still the same company, society, foundations, 
groups, movements! And furiously fighting for the extension of 
the scope vliyaniya.A thrown from the table lord bone clown 
(okay, vinasse) can still improve as a rating of the feudal 
lord by thanksgiving Song fed singer! Formulated as follows: 
Anyone who takes the order or a laurel wreath, is written in 
the servants who throws this bone. Even if you a laurel wreath

handed in the name of a certain society, a clean and
spotless! assume improbable that
this society is not funded by anyone secretly
and not monitored. It's really clean and nezapyatnannoe.No 
still you begin to serve him! "It is simply indecent to bite 
the hand that you are stroking or kormit.No then where is your 
freedom? 


   Always on any endeavor is easier to say: no, it does not, 
nothing happens. This man, in nine cases out of ten

is right. looks better, more intelligent, says ready to 
run-phrases, easily winning the debate. 

   There still should be able to arrange the words
its shaky idea how to explain themselves and
others, and your opponent at the ready mass of brilliant and 
witty arguments protiv.On easily and under the laughter of 
others will break down and in remains unhappy, you dare to 
create his theory, religion, a different view on computer 
games, gender, or a new literary hero. 

   Of course, these nine out of ten never
did not create and is not doing, but they never (almost) no 
wrong! And because look right, respectable, with good 
communicate, they do not naderzyat these young geniuses, they 
are educated and polite. 

   Mass man is perfect for any obschestva.On rules! He lives in 
the dominant idea. Say today, for example, that anti-Semitism - 
this is bad, this man everywhere said, as his own opinion

that anti-Semitism - is nehorosho.Skazhi tomorrow as 
authoritatively that the Jews must all lime, he immediately 
goes to sharpen a knife. Especially if the government did not 
say (who is he believes), and impressive member of the Academy, 
with the noble art weary eyes and beautiful white mane down to 
his shoulders. Are you sure you do not say? 

   Do not be afraid to play in the debate so
erudite. Behind them is indeed an enormous reservoir of world 
kultury.S you through them do something stupid blanks bodies 
say the greatest thinkers of the last century as well as that 
is about to become the past! With them argue trudno.No! 
nuzhno.Oni then, on what civilization is, and you are those who 
have this edifice to drag on.


   Was a beautiful and enlightened Rome. Sophisticated city 
lawyers, poets, playwrights, sculptors. The mighty Roman 
armiya.Obrazovannye people arguing about the form of ear 
nymphs, are brought choicest carnal pleasures! But otkudato 
among them there were horrible, ignorant, illiterate, rude 
pervohristiane.Tupye.Ne one out of ten, but much less. Always 
lost in disputes with the formation of the Romans, who knew and 
poetry, and philosophy and languages, and different latitude

views!

   And yet destroyed the mighty Roman empire, and unshakable!

   And created their own civilization.

   Break it and you decrepit old world.

   You - the new sprouts.

   And to this we must join, pure
technical material rychagi.Lyuboy give up!
That is, now before you huddle ideas
whole herd. All did not immediately realize, it is necessary
choose what now, what to potom.Lyuboy
Normal people lack the idea that
already see how to translate quickly and well.

   But you - crazy (recalling that such a norm: a plumber, 
academic, literary critic, banker, President country - a level 
the same, the only difference Education and captured the post).


   You should choose the one bold and vicious,
which will change the world. True, it is unknown
how to approach it, while at the same time understand how to 
quickly create a fantasy world, to come up with a new shape for 
the ears elf, arm well-balanced

Swords and teach martial arts
Sun-hun-a-tea with the elements of school vynsu-Khim.

   The devil with the Division of writing that you are not 
marching in step! And anyway, why writers have to go up? And 
system? If the leg, it is clear that for the writers. If you 
build it, someone else knows better! And they also met together 
in close order, holding bayonets, all nepohozhego.Nu, here it 
is all clear as day. 

   Any material give up! If it is hard to think over this most 
difficult idea, come and images, and new heroes, and paints, and

ways to bring in the fabric of bright and unusual.

   And then your work will not only stands out among those that 
were written easily. (What's easy to write, then read 
difficult. But already published!) Main - your Work will be 
remembered. About her will debate how to of an exploding bomb.


   And maybe, in fact, overturn
Peace!


                 Chapter 3

So, let us recall the conclusions of the previous chapters:

   Do not nail down every tree on a plate
"Tree".

   Write peripheral words.

   The woman - just a function.

   Insert-explanations are always annoying.

   Measure of the novel - a shift in the character.


   I see that I missed such an important feature of our psyche, 
as the accuracy and nepravilnost.Uvy, every reader is correct 
depressing. The right person to anyone not 
interesen.Zastavlyaet skuchat.Huzhe of annoying.


   So it was throughout the ages: Robin Hood always
always more popular than Francis Bacon, muscular Conan 
interesting printing pioneers Gutenberg, or Ivan Fyodorov, and 
Cain is steeper and too interesting a peaceful Avelya.Seychas

generally accepted hypertrophied size.
Jamb went noble killers, hookers with hearts of the Blessed 
Virgin, the lord of dungeons, aristocratic mafia, and rushed to 
portray fantasy characters are not quite so too precious, but 
rather on the side of evil ... More Walter Scott complained 
bitterly that he could not work out the noble Images! Villain 
wrote in one fell swoop, juicy and vivid, memorable, but even 
Ivanhoe boring like a sheep in the dark. But at least he 
fights, something alive, but what about the ladies Roven and 
other main characters in his novels? 

   Yes, of course, if you only write images
villains, romance can get brighter. May
be, he even readers will bolshe.No
What kind of readers ... Yes, and how you become a writer?

   More about language. Someone from the great said:
"One regulations should persistently: that the words
was crowded, and the idea is spacious. "In other words, cross 
out for a mother those words already written phrases, without 
which you can do. This is the simplest and most effective way 
to improve language. 

   In truth, half the skill to write
stands on the ability to strike. After all, clever writing, 
many! .. But clever enough to write. It should be - bright. 
Brightness is achieved, except Other methods, more and 
capacitance. Proverbs and so strong that all the excess 
removed, leaving only the most necessary words. This remember! 
It works. 

   Alas, it is difficult to erase. Not even because
it is unclear what strike, what to leave. Just - sorry.

   Well, first - why should begin this
weed and weed-sornyaki.Vozvraschatsya words, view the field 
again with fresh look and weed out yet. All weeds

list, each writer tends to be different, but there is general 
mass, such as "your" or "was" that abound in every phrase.


   And the damage these weeds not only because
that interfere with the brightness. It would seem that wrong to 
read: "a man entered. It was tall man, wearing a well! ".

However, immediately attaches itself involuntarily: once a word
"Was" the norms of language addresses the past,
now entered this has become, perhaps,
growth in a low, if not replaced the floor, and
dressed or bad, or just come naked?

   Aesthetic must be dynamic.
Let's remember what really boring and faceless
character "The Man in the box!" But before
by the end of a short story got in the last case, wooden, and 
his down the stairs lowered and the face and beat him, he tried 
to marry almost to the queen, that is, shown in action!


   Only in action image is revealed.
It sounds boring, academic, try
otherwise: only dynamic character, with whom
something so takes place, which forced
changing - we, the readers, is interesting. And others - too. 
So we kill three birds with stasis: reader buys publisher 
publishes, and pays, and you along the way, so casually, one of 
the most important rules of literature, and thus way, you are 
rightly called the writer, not just earning on writing books.


   Sporadic in my life - a constant in
literature.Zhizn filled with walking into the bakery at the 
service, in every way rutinoy.V face give only once or twice, 
marrying again, the devil would it pobral! still somehow a bit 
under the car is not hit! that's all our events.


   Yes, this is life.I here for literature to
select just those moments: when the snout, marriage, a car or 
something else vivid, unusual. Not because the reader

should be a bloody scene (although this is not Shakespeare
neglected, even if not ignored), and
it can be seen in the scuffle a who's who, as in
any extreme situatsii.V bakery we
all go the same way as in the service, but
act differently when we see ahead in the
dark alley three drunken mordovorotov.

   Conclusion: The literature - a more accurate depiction of 
life than the zhizn.K Unfortunately, no one to refer to himself 
coined, but believe me coach. And - go ahead to record! 

   While that is not a word about the proper
fantasy. Even science fiction in general. Only
purely literary devices. Let the country
people think: Is science fiction literature,
whether the Volga empties into the Caspian Sea, and the horses 
eat oats and hay, but the drop in regularly here only those for 
whom this issue has long been settled. 

   Many of them write, and for writing the main art - the right 
to place these marks on paper, using them to build a strong 
beautiful building, and someone there to settle: fiction, or 
lavstorikov historist - can be solved then. 

   However, any construction begins with the manufacture of 
bricks. Bricks will be of high quality, one can construct any 
Palace (like a barn, alas), but fuckin 'bricks can be built 
only hlev.Da and then before the first rain.


   Language and there are those building blocks, of which
constructed vesch.Kogda I read "Aelita", "Peter
The first "or" The Road to Calvary, "I did not feel that 
reading fiction, historical or a novel on a modern theme. 
Language performs a miracle of presence and complicity: I 
fought and with Tuskub on Mars, and cut through a window to 
Europe, and the pacing between the red and white. 

   Another rule that I personally do not
like, but what to do, it exists.
Formulated like this: any verbal
design is justified in the product, if
logically motivated. That is, any abuse, any matrix, any 
impropriety have right to be present in the literature, if no

her image is incomplete if it helps in revealing character.

   But, of course, if you can do, then
do ... do.

   In the literature, as in any art form, there is a separation 
of art and on counterfeits iskusstvo.K example, love

- The art, but the sex - poddelka.Ponyatno,
forgery planing easier and easier, a special
skills not required, and undemanding
Readers are always bolshe.My themselves, for that
matter, left the undemanding, because in early childhood 
swallow everything like a duck, then - like a shark, only with 
age or education begin to distinguish white from black. 

   For example, once a person receives in
hands of a camera or television camera, he immediately
starts to take off her dog, cat and
tiny kids. For there is no person to
not pricked at the sight of the Friars Minor
(Children of the same number), and professional avoids these 
unprofessional priemov.Kazalos would, nothing could be simpler: 
Place the child the tail of an airplane that is about to fall 
off (Tail), and the experience of the audience provided

on both series! But the film did in calculating
in saliva and tears housewives. Respect for the viewers and 
readers that do not zarabotaesh.Hotya box-office success, alas, 
does not depend on klassnosti. Ruble highbrow and porter is 
identical, and more porters, they are bankers, and the deputies 
and members of the government! 

   Because you should at least in the beginning of a way to try 
to avoid fakes. Just as in the detective story, where there 
are, say, bans on the use of twins, non-motivated murder of a 
madman or a falling object with roof, and in the literature in 
general is an unofficial ban on sex, touching the children and 
all cats in distress. 

   Of course, exclude them from the literature is impossible 
(and suspected of kakihto complexes, while a suspect) but use 
should be dosed. I, Incidentally, there are one or two 
children, one or two "Kitty", but it's more than twenty

books!

   People reading, even reading
detektivchiki lowest poshiba, yet
higher on the intellectual development of the person looking 
movies. Even the elitist, high, intelligent, etc. 

   Why? Yes, because reading itself creates for itself a movie. 
And no matter how many people did not read the same book, so 
many films they create. Expanding the book, we see a white 
sheet with scattered to him an icon out of thirty-two 
simvolov.A in brain colossal work on a conversion of these 
characters visual images. The brain turns on and works 
powerfully in full force, developing and pumping his muscles. 
And in the movies or on television, already fed finished 
images. Someone cooked, chew. And all the spectators

see the same thing. Bezdumno.Mozg does not work. It only 
consumes. Ready. If, say, seven o'clock turner working day 
behind a tank, it gives a certain amount of detail. If the 
writer was ... Hemingway, for example, he wrote standing up or 
sitting seven o'clock at his typewriter or

Pentium-II for the same seven hours, he was able to give their 
products a few times. 

   Leave the idiots that zaorut of blasphemous comparison, 
these lines are not for them. A stupid understandable that a 
writer has always have already written, which can and should be

edit, enhance, add, enhance, sharpen, etc. When, as they say, 
no inspiration, but simply put, at this moment do not climb 
into a bright golovu.Znachit need as simple turner sit at your 
machine and modify already written. No thing that, when 
re-reading would have seemed an impeccable! There is no such 
thing that would finalize worse (do not believe the jokes, 
composed quitters). Okay, do not nod to Tolstoy and Bunin. Not

Apart from the fact that they were copying their stuff to 
twenty times, each time improving, and the remaining work for 
the twenty-first. By At least when I meet with Bunin, "he

nod ", it warps. And I understand
that he would be removed, if noticed.

   And it must be possible to avoid unnecessary
decorations. Although I understand this is difficult. For 
example, a man wrote the phrase: "Do not Shoot the swans. 
"Feels banal. And He adds that the literariness said: "White." 
At the hearing an inexperienced person sounds seem to be 
prettier: "Do not shoot white swans. "But even this 
unsophisticated feels in this sentence false, insincere, 
although do not understand why ... 

   And literate person at once: but in the gray can be? Then it 
is completely in black doublet? "And then a machine gun! ... 
Well, once the consciousness of something Rough clings, then 
someone kopnet and deeper: the swans did not shoot, and geese 
can be? "And the pigeons?" And dogs and cats? .. And about 
people do not say that these two-legged fire No way ...! 

   Funny, but no more hysterical fans of some idol, whether 
singer or writer, but they become dangerous if inadvertently 
gain access to the press. They immediately try to make worship

my god so fiercely that often the ...
achieve. And then a really great
man becomes the greatest and unsurpassed, thus causing the 
intelligent people deaf rzdrzhenie. In contrast to the 
hysterical fools, they know something that every achievement of 
human thought, mind or muscle offset by new developments. Alas, 
all flows, all constantly changing.


   Although why "alas"? Fortunately. Otherwise, do not
would progressa.No if the sport is not argue with: a hundred 
pounds on the bar of modern weight lifter is one hundred, and 
not seventy, as on the bar at the champion of the last century, 
if modern car top speed

more than the record-breaking cars of the century, the
art, which seems to be no clear standards, time seemingly stood 
still. Artworks great masters declared neprevzoydennymi.Kak in 
painting and in literature.Hotya, Of course, it is not. How sad 
it is recognize the writer, but he writes better

masters of past centuries, and in the next
century, they will write better than him. This is when
soberly, without hysteria.

   Yes, Pushkin is great as no one at a time
since he first coined the Russian language,
because the so-called high society only spoke French, in the 
same way as for fifty years before - in German. Yes,

Dante's great, he was the first thing written in Italian, but 
only a fool or a liar would argue that the poets twentieth 
century inferior Pushkin or Dante. 

   Because it is easy to scribble continue
by Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy. Sequels are not necessarily 
those weaker. Even on the same level. But, sorry, the level of 
the end Twentieth much higher level people in the past

or pozaproshlogo.Chest them and the glory that is
ignorant savage time managed to create
such works! But to compete with them, it's the same thing to be 
proud of the fact that managed to beat the record of the first 
Olympic Games! Pal, exceed current standards!


   Now is still sacrilege to say that
Proskurin or, say, by language and Astafyev
imagery above Bunin and Nabokov. Those
enveloped in a halo of the martyrs, and these - thought
only "- the Communists. But what in the literature, it's not so 
clear as in mathematics. However, there is still the criteria 
by which it is evident that Astafiev Proskurin and even 
criticize all Bondarev - again swear not at

literature, and for presiding over the Writers' Union! - They 
are higher class literature than respected classics in those 
years. Alas, even the century. Not the calendar, and

of a leisurely, when the book read in a chair on the veranda of 
his own manor house, where from Petersburg to Moscow a month 
plus! And then serfdom and forced to read, do not even bother. 

   Bunin vygranival each line, and Astafjev also vygranivaet 
every word in this line. It is so colorful that, admiring

every word, trafficking, a metaphor, you feel a physical 
pleasure to admire so that it does not matter how and what ends

story, so vividly, clearly and professionally.

   In science, they say: even a negative result is useful. It 
shows that in the direction to catch something. So, let's

yet to acknowledge that all these acmeists, postmodernists, 
Imagists, or whatever you call today's new, that are 
experimenting with words and forms that they - the 
experimenters. The result has all of these searches - zero. But 
thanks to them for what they seek. More like a flock of sheep 
on the Purley way of realism, then - social realism, and now 
just write simpler, more intuitive to have been the general 
reader, for it is better to get on with the hack ten million 
than a hundred to a thousand intellectuals. 

   Tragedy. Somehow, in school textbooks
horrible ridiculous definition tragedii.Komediya - when they 
laugh, the drama - when suffering and tragedy - when the die. 
Preferably, in beautiful poses and with high words on ustah.Ya 
himself studied in such textbooks, and Now anything they do not 
izmenilos.Bred, of course. From the opera, when a neat 
housewife in horror calls a tragedy if break the cup. 

   Yes, absurd. Heroes can be killed all but
this is not a tragedy. The tragedy - this is when
both sides are right! Even the ancient Greeks is
understood and enjoyed in their pesah.Kazhetsya is in 
"Antigone" the king tells him to execute Hero and strictly 
according to the law to throw his body unburied, and who will 
bury the criminal, yes will die. His daughter Antigone secretly

bury, and when she caught it with dignity, says that although 
entered illegally, but human laws can not repeal of laws, 
higher set by the gods (not true, modern: by law or, 
alternatively, in good conscience?) King, in horror, but I have 
to wall up her favorite daughter in a cave for the king must 
give example of obedience to the law, what keeps the

any society. Thus, the tragedy: when both
hand - right.

   There is probably no easier a literary device than a simple 
comparison. You can, for example, long and describe in detail 
the nose of his hero, or you can write a short "as a pelican," 
"like a pig," and the reader immediately there is a certain way.


   With this technique adjoins another one:
exaggeration. It is clear that there are no humans Pelican 
nosov.Ne happens and human dliny.Dazhe a half pelicans not 
found! Yet once there is a way of man with a long elongated 
breaker switch. 

   Alas, often encountered thick novels
where not find a single comparison with someone
or anything to.A if the author does not know these simple rules 
of arithmetic, then what can we say to him about the high 
algebra metaphors! 

   About them - later.

   Sometimes you can see on your screen television, as any 
master of literature reporter asks aspirated into

voice: how, say, great ideas are born, and Maitre, napyzhivshis 
and taking a profound view, begins to talk about some a dream 
which he brought into life, or noncommutative illumination ... 
In short, he has such a gift, which no other pigs.


   It sounds great, but I like him as a very Maitre, and 
correspondent and exalted teledury do in ecstasy. They say 
there is something unknown in the world, higher education, 
which illuminates your favorites! 

   You will not be embarrassed, and if asked, why not grind the 
same nonsense? Audience, and especially - listener, like this. 
But Heaven forbid ourselves to believe in this nonsense! Not

All that selling, it is worth zhryakat themselves. All
the above is applicable to any thin-re. If
who can not wait to hear it
of fiction, the only litzhanru deserve attention, then start 
again with base.


   Years old in three to five man begins
draw, at fourteen - compose verses
twenty - to write tales in the twenty-
five-thirty - fiction. Of course, plyusminus few years, but 
noted that a creative person first begins to work the 
imagination, then - the heart (Ah, poetry!), Then the brain, 
and to enter stasis of fiction required is already very good

brains, can not only think but also to create worlds that 
generate philosophical ideas. Of course, not everyone grows to 
higher stasis, the majority remains in simple prose, yet

more - just a poet or artist, but we are a superior race, 
right? Talk about their problems.


   Editors who would say that it is possible that you can not - 
no longer exists. But complete freedom by all the rules, too 
chrevata.Novichok, oshalev of freedom, shoves into his novel, 
and even in tiny tales, aliens from outer space

dinosaurs, mutants hrenonavtov, mad professors and intelligent 
robots! and generally all that time to hear at least the edge

ear. It turns out the rare stuff, which taste even the reader 
does not always understand what nravitsya.Ved not seem to be 
cool, but their blasters firing even dinosaurs and cockroaches! 

   Wells entered the classics yet because
every thing was one and only fantasy. "Invisible Man" -
adventure became invisible in usual
Real English town. "War of the Worlds"
- Martians landed in England! Vse.Bolshe fabulous and no 
assumptions. More realnost.I so terrible in every novel,

stories, novels. No such that in one
things, even enormous, met dinosaurs and aliens from outer 
space, and zvezdoletchiki Frankenstein.


   Assumption allows one to beat him
from all sides, to show his class.

   Bright gypsy dress is never stylish. Simply because it's too 
bright, colorful. 

   Alas, the history of humanity - the history of prohibitions. 
Do not allow yourself to do something or another, a man singled 
out from zhivotnogo.Ne allowing themselves to shove everything 
into a novel that Requests the soul, a man from an amateur 
writer "For themselves", turns into a brilliant professional.