How can we use life experiences to develop our writing

How can we use life experiences to develop our writing

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” Henry David Thoreau.

Dedicated to: Claudia Gamez. Who has always insisted that enter testing as it is the genre that dominated.

A couple of years I was privileged to attend the Guadalajara Book Fair. Naturally I took the time to buy books. I remember one in particular titled “Writers useless” by the Italian writer Ermano Cavazzoni. I will do a review of that book, although not that great.

While the book was quoted to have a starting point for the following reflection: how it develops the act of writing.

In an ironic test presented in this book, the author tells how one writer to another writer recommends novel, living before attempting to write.

And I remember this idea that came to mind, since in a letter I wrote a couple of hours ago my dear friend Elizabeth, she remembered how one of many conversations we had, to paraphrase, I argued that actually write things of great value, would have to live.

Let me explain a little context or why I made this observation is that as our discussions were deeper, richer, and becoming more continuous, it was discovered that I tend to live in a very intellectual. She said I lack the emotion to really “understand human behavior” as not only enough to “know the behavior of being.”

This idea struck me so that I could not stop thinking about it. Somehow I suspect that my characters are reluctant to make an appearance in my stories. I can not delineate the psychology of it or definitely not ripe to develop a good book or article.

With this idea, I’m trying to say, dear reader, is that this is a very important requirement: we need to have life experiences that enable us to rescue some ideas that turn into a good sketch literary somehow the words have to go imbued with a visceral tessitura. After all, fiction is reality.

One as a professional writer should really have the ability to duplicate the symbiosis between signifier and signified.

For example, if I type “coffee” must convey in the text which includes the word smell, taste, nostalgia, wake up …