The writer Itamar Vieira Junior debuts this Sunday (23) at CasaFolha ,. Author of the hits “crooked plow” and “save the fire”, he teaches creative writing in 12 classes already available on the site.
With over 1 million copies sold, Vieira Junior is the largest phenomenon of national literature in recent years. His books have been translated into over 25 countries and won several awards, such as Oceans, Leya and the Brazilian Oscar Species of writing.
His classes at CasaFolha will integrate the “Communication and Creativity” journey, which already has other established names: filmmaker José Padilha, director of “Elite Troop”, while Giovanni Beigossi and Micarla Lins, oratory champions and competitive debate ,.
With the debut of Vieira Junior, the platform reaches 19 exclusive courses led by great personalities, such as former Minister Pedro Malan, Monja Coen, and star Raí ,. In addition, new content is incorporated every month.
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In the creative writing course, Viera Junior divides some of the secrets that led him to success. “I will share, in a very sincere way, everything I think and that I practice in writing,” he says. “I will talk about the creation of characters, the construction of history, the structuring of work, the project. I will also talk about how to maintain an attractive story to the reader.”
Throughout the 12 classes, he addresses all stages of the production of a literary work. In the first lesson, for example, he talks about how to become a writer, using his own trajectory as a case study.
He discusses topics such as the importance of the writer to have a writing routine, the role of the literary agent and the ways to publish a work. He cites as examples, besides “crooked plow”, his two previous works, “days” and “the prayer of the executioner”.
Vieira Junior moves through several other relevant topics for writing, starting from the creative process. He tells how many of his ideas come from the observation of the world and states that for them to develop, he also needs memory and imagination.
In your case, however, nothing is more important than the characters, because it is around them that the stories unfold. The author reveals that “crooked plow” and “save fire” were born from the central figures of these narratives and explains how it chooses their respective names.
When it comes to putting ideas on paper, a lot is escaped to the planned – and, for Vieira Junior, this is one of the graces of literature. Characters seem to make a life of their own and the plot unfolds in a way that even the author had imagined.
At other times, the opposite is given: the writer is facing a blank paper (or a computer screen) and cannot formulate a single word. It is the dreaded creative blockade, a topic addressed by Vieira Junior in the course.
It also deals with topics such as the structure of a book, the size of the paragraphs, the choice of the narrator, the author’s literary voice, care for descriptions and dialogues, the importance of rewriting several times, the tricks to maintain interest in the text, the final edition and the dissemination of work, among others.
But there is no magic formula. “What makes a book well welcomed or not by the reading audience? This is a mystery, we never know what will happen to each book and we have to be prepared for it,” he says.
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