El arte de crear escribiendo, para fortalecer la producción en los estudiantes del grado tercero del colegio Domingo Savio

Abstract

Creative, expressive or literary writing aims to awaken the enjoyment for writing, for invention, for fiction; ultimately, for literature, for the creation of their own worlds. Writing, therefore, is something that can be learned from models, from a tradition of a job, and it is acquired fundamentally in two ways: reading and writing itself. That said, it is also true that only by writing we learn to write, to tell the stories kept inside, despite the fact that, as J. Marías says, in his speech when joining the Academy (April 27th, 2008): the novelist's work is not only puerile, as Robert Louis Stevenson describes it, but also absurd, a kind of trompe l'oeil, a hoax, an illusion, an entelechy and a soap bubble...I even dared to say that telling, narrating, recounting is impossible, mostly if it is about certain facts, things that indeed happened. And, consequently, Marías later affirms, only the author of fictions can tell the whole story, insofar as he gives them an unalterable and permanent reality. Just like the painter with colors; or the musician with sounds; or the photographer with lights; or the sculptor with wood, stone or bronze; or the potter with clay; etc., the basic tool that a writer works with is language. His art consists of combining words, and just as a still life or a landscape gradually comes out of the tubes of paint, we could say that a story, a novel, always slept in the pages of the dictionary, or in the head of who writes it. Thus, writing is a careful art of combining words. These are the ordinary material: the most immediate, the simplest matter of life. Therefore, it is important to seek naturalness, to wriggle away from the excess of “literature” in the texts. Natural style is persuasive, meanwhile the artificial one leads us to suspect. It requires rich vocabulary, interrelation capability, and verbal association. "THE ART OF CREATING WRITING" is a project aimed at strengthening textual production. The objective is to implement methodological strategies in order to encourage such process in students; so that it can be reflected in the good academic performance of each one; and hence in the development of some of the competences stated in the curricular guidelines of the Spanish language.