Symbology and Narrative 101: Beard hairs

They got longer, thicker and stronger, they were quite rebellious fighting the weather, they received waves of smog, pollution, nicotine, oil, perfume, soap, alcohol. They were exposed to all kinds of substances on a daily basis, especially because the environment where they lived was a very crowded place.

That restaurant in the lower Chinatown was visited by the yacuza, by the neighbors, and it was the neural center of scammers, trafficking of white women, and sale of stolen objects, so all kinds of people came there, and this meant being exposed to all kinds of diseases, the sluts had all kinds of STDs and apparently, this also contributed to their hair is so strong.

She had arranged in her beard some ball-shaped ornaments that were mini Chinese lamps, the kind that lights up at night, with some symbols of the water dragon, which was the logo of the place. That was his restaurant and he was known to be the best puffer fish cook in the area. In the place, there was a kind of tradition on the part of all the gangsters to eat that fish every 6 months, and the one that was alive remained as the head of the area during that period and sponsor of the premises.

Rumor has it that the local cook had to wear a beard that passed his waist and should never wash it, in exchange for doing so he would have guaranteed all the well-being for his family for the next 3 generations. This was a pact made with a Yaoguai that gave him the power to cook the pufferfish without making a mistake, but in exchange, he would have to lead a life once a year, and that was the secret pact that only the first leader who started the tradition and was assassinated by a rival gang, taking the secret to the grave.

This story, like almost all the ones I write, was made improvised, without previously structuring it, to show you the type of fictions that you can achieve using symbology. In this case use the hairs of the beard to talk about it, and they realize the result that is obtained, a very interesting story that hooks first and that surely most of the readers would like to continue.

Use the narrative from the 3rd person always recounting the facts from the point of view of someone who knows things and sees them from the outside, highlighting the importance of what I always tell them, that when writing they should not mix narrative styles because at first it is something complicated that requires many technicalities.

So here you see an example of how to use 3rd person symbology and narrative to achieve an impactful fiction.

That it helps you to take advantage of it.