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Again time, as fleeting as always, has played me. It was high time to continue with this project and resume the collection and synthesis of some of the topics covered in class, and update this a bit, missing him or her. I say in my defense, despite being a little late compared to the last we've seen, yes I have collected material for future entries, despite its lack of direct relationship with the kinds of creativity methods, it content to those who enjoy the creation ( or recreation) creative. For now I will focus on the most important notions of the subject, starting with a book called 99 style exercises.

Variation in honor of the horror comic books of the years 70/80

Its author is the renowned illustrator and cartoonist Matt Madden , and it shows the different and diverse ways of telling the same story. Through the comics, Madden exposes us a brief history, simple and concise transformed by different narrative resources at its disposal, to be among some of the changes from the viewpoint of the narrative, the subject of history, style, dialogues, etc. However, even being original in form, the idea was used by the French poet and novelist, Raymond Queneau, in his style exercises, in which, as in the book Madden, proposes a fairly trivial story and subjected to multiple variations, but with the difference that in this case, all are made from a text, instead of the comic or illustration.

Presented both authors, we are given the task of writing a story, the same style as that of Queneau and Madden, on which we could implement necessary modifications to generate about nine alternatives to the story, using every way we wanted. After thinking for a while, and trying to get my story is not unlike any exhibited in class, I wrote the fragment that you have a little lower. Although you may not have much in common with some of my colleagues, there is an element which, incidentally, and referring to the first words of this entry, persists in almost all who heard or I have the privilege of reading : time.

A person leaves home peacefully with the intention of arriving on time for an appointment. Walk out the door you realize that you forgot the gloves in cold weather and since decided to enter again to take them. Once inside the house, and after donning gloves, hears the phone rings. Somewhat annoyed because of events that will make me late for the meeting, pick up the phone and answered vehemently. Across the phone answers a friendly voice that entertains you with something of a woman. The individual, despite the short time available, listens, though denoting a certain impatience in his answers succinct and lively attitude. After the conversation quickly hangs up and runs to the front door open and close it then rapidly. Leaving is caught by a cat that hisses (the animal to be surprised too), and falls to the ground because startle while you hear the phone ring again through the front door. Not expected to get away from your home or arrive on time wherever he went.

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