#Brando Skyhorse

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My Name is Iris: A Novel

By Brando Skyhorse.

Design by Richard Ljoenes.

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My Name is Iris by Brando Skyhorse

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Title: My Name Is Iris | Author: Brando Skyhorse | Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2023)

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My Name Is Iris - US

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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #MyNameIsIris by #BrandoSkyhorse. A dystopic view of MAGA America. 

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I've had the same issue with a runaway story that kept changing on me. It might help to outline the entire story first. Outlining lets you work through plot issues before you start writing.

Your tags mentioned that no one teaches editing, so I want to recommend this free course (choose the audit option) from Wesleyan University! It's taught by Brando Skyhorse and the fourth module is all about revision and editing.

(But I stand by my original post! I wasn't talking about plot; I was talking about word order and early drafts being ugly on a sentence level.)

"I have to get it right the first time!"

why? why do you have to get it right the first time? what's actually going to happen if your words aren't in the absolute perfect order before you move on to the next sentence? you aren't showing the draft to anyone. this is why we have the editing and revision process. perfection is a trap that keeps you from making progress. dare I say it's rooted in fear? let it go. allow yourself to be imperfect.

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859. Brando Skyhorse

Brando Skyhorse is the author of the novel My Name is Iris, available from Avid Reader Press.

Skyhorse's debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park, won the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, Take This Man, was named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 and one of NBC News's 10 Best Latino Books of 2014. He also coedited the anthology, We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America. A recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center fellowship, Skyhorse teaches English and creative writing at Indiana University Bloomington.

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Book Review: ‘My Name Is Iris,’ by Brando Skyhorse

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Antonio Velardo shares: In ‘My Name Is Iris,’ a Mother Learns the Limits of Protectiveness by Erika L. Sánchez

By Erika L. Sánchez Brando Skyhorse’s novel is the subtly dystopian story of a Mexican American woman who realizes that America has become less welcoming to people like her. Published: August 1, 2023 at 05:01AM from NYT Books https://ift.tt/wM0CfjR via IFTTT

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My Name is Iris by Brando Skyhorse

☆☆☆☆ | full review

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The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse

The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse

“We slipped into this country like thieves, onto the land that once was ours.” With these words, spoken by an illegal Mexican day laborer, The Madonnas of Echo Park takes us into the unseen world of Los Angeles, following the men and women who cook the meals, clean the homes, and struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream.

The Madonnas of Echo Parkis a collection…

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We Wear the Mask

“I am a mixture of many different peoples and I have always enjoyed this fact. I am the mongrel the white supremacists warned about. I am the Western world's bastard child.”

Sometime after the rallies in Charleston I was watching skinhead YouTube—an act somewhere between a responsible reality check and popcorn-popping with a horror movie—when I arrived at an EDM-backed listicle with a title along the lines of, “12 ways you know you’re a true Aryan prince.” One of these helpful self-checks was, of course—and here I’ll paraphrase again—“your soul screams when you encounter a white woman dating outside her race.”

Among the hundreds of sieg-heil inanities in the comments section, one has stuck with me. It said, “Number nine is so true. When you look a mixed-race person in the eye, you can see that something was stolen from them before they were born.”

It’s true, I will admit here; it’s true, and I’ll even tell you what it is that I’m missing. I have been robbed of the most fundamental human delusions—of absolutes, of distinctions, of tribal fealty. And I have filled the insidious void beneath my ambiguous skin with a dangerous secret. Lean in, little Nazi, and I will whisper it in your ear:

nOoooThIiiiNG is aS iT seEeeeEeeEeeemMmmmsSSsssss

😂 😂 😂

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Curso de Escrita Criativa Aula 01

O Enredo

O que é um enredo?

Segundo a Wikipédia, enredo significa o conjunto das ações executadas pelos personagens numa narrativa, a fim de criar sentido ou emoção no espectador. É usado para designar todos os eventos de uma história.

O Professor do curso de escrita criativa Brando Skyhorse, nos da uma definição de enredo:

“enredo é os principais eventos de um romance ou história inventada e apresentado pelo escritor como uma seqüência inter-relacionada.”

A grande diferença entre enredo e histórias, e que o enredo tem uma inter-relação nas ações ocorridas.

Brando cita  sobre Gustav Freytag, um romancista alemão do século 19 e dramaturgo que analisou o drama grego antigo e shakespeariano e elaborou uma pirâmide para descrever como uma história funciona.

John Capbell também teve papel fundamental na identificação da formula de histórias, onde documentou a estrutura da história da jornada do herói.

 No trabalho Freytag temos a sequencia piramidal no desenrolar de um enredo.

No ponto de partida temos a exposição, onde e apresentada informações que contextualizam a história.

Na ponto 2 temos o que e chamado de incidente incitante, que e um conflito.

No ponto 3 temos a resolução do conflito, do passo 2 até aqui e criado um clímax gradadito na história de modo que o público alvo possa ficar conectado a história.

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this week’s reading includes @bellhoolks (twice!), Paulo Friere, @drchriswillard, @ibramxk, Brando Skyhorse, Lisa Page, Achy Obejas, @mfitten, , Patrick Rosal, Teresa Witts, @treyelliswriter, Margo Jefferson, and jerichobrown1, — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2M1MNWH