It is more difficult to stare at the blank paper and try to fill it with something, anything; than criticizing. I wonder how many people would just shut up if they tried to write or just draw over. And drawing is not as difficult as we are made to believe. It just takes longer than anything if you don’t do it daily.
THE HARSH TRUTH
You can never know if your work will be picked up. Alexandria’s library catalogue was made by someone. How many books were lost forever because they didn’t make up the chap doing the catalogue’s taste? Worst, you can never know if it might disappear in a fire.
You do your best. For years. Until there it comes, the one momento when you take the chance. I’ve been a fool and rejected chances. Are you?
Take your time learning how to do and then take your time thinking how to make it better.
WHAT “GOOD” MEANS THEN?
Good is in your terms. Is it good to be famous and sell a lot of books… of the same series whilst being unable to write anything else? Is it good being famous and a big bigot? Is it good to be famous without a family life?
Who is it for and what is it for? You’re the judge. If it fulfills its mission, then it is good. If not, there’s a good chance you need to change. In between “good” and “as good as possible” you can waste your time doing what you shoulnd’t.
PROTECTION
Don’t protect it so much. It never ends. THIS WON’T BE YOUR ONLY IDEA, OR YOUR ONLY CHANCE. The only way to live the steps is to step on the steps. No one is helping you from paying to have a blog. No one is helping you from post a video. DO!
What number of bad idea is this? Have fun with your bad ideas. Pasto kalo.
Puesto que la cooperación humana a gran escala se basa en mitos, la manera en que la gente puede cooperar puede ser alterada si se cambian los mitos contando narraciones diferentes.
Sapiens, Nuval Yoah Harari.
Nietzsche escribió una vez que dios había muerto. Yo todavía me encuentro la idea de una existencia divina en muchas obras de ficción. Lo que quiere decir, que en ese sentido, la cooperación sigue bajo el yugo de una interferencia externa. Kant puede haber propuesto una forma de cooperación exenta de castigos; pero la ficción sigue sin alcanzar ese ideal. ¿Es hora de proponer nuevas formas de cooperación humana?
Once upon a time I used to have a LinkedIn[1] account with my penname until policies said my avatar was not mine and wasn’t me. It obviously wasn’t me. For good reasons I won’t tell here. Amd since that comment was a complete distraction from business, let’s jump out into the important stuff.
The original entry is a translation. Given the fact that in Wednesdays I post translating myself into English, I think the honest thing is leaving you with the reference and the link.
…Aha, the following I found in LinkedIn’s TED posts and it is an extract from the book The Practice: Shipping Creative Workby Seth Godin published by in 2020.
WHY TO READ IT?
There are some dark sides (minus Darth Vader) to some of the ideas in it. Not everything one reads comes to be true to a T. However, used as I’ve been to have only Big Choma and La cocina de Meg[2] as my main and only hooligans; I know that in occasion, the ones cheering from behind the fence run out of gas. That’s when we need to go and get some helium for our ego. Here you can get some in case you have run out.
[1] Quite useless to find a job but (when there’s avalaible internet) quite nice to waste time reading. Even if it is only little me.
[2] Sometimes it is not the lack of people cheering or themrunning out of gas, it is the person themselves who needs to believe….
— Los discípulos de la estrella han cerrado todas las tabernas. Dicen que está mal comer y beber cuando… — Ya sé, ya sé -dijo Cohen-. Creo que empiezo a captar la idea. ¿Es que esa gente no aprueba nada? Bula meditó un momento. — Quemar cosas -dijo por último-.
La luz fantástica. Terry Pratchett
Y de cierto que pueden desaprobar a las madres solteras, tener sexo antes de algo — cualquier algo (no que sea importante para mí pero como pertenezco a la minoría…), comer carne o abortar. ¿Bombardear gente? ¿Quemar libros? ¡Sí! Siempre que sean los demás.
¿Tu libro tiene complicaciones de este tipo? Pasto kalo.
I’m pregnant. He is your father. I’m getting married to her. Who can save us now? The Caucasian main characters. The billionaire and the poor girl (universal motif?). To betray family for love. The traditional single mom’s family.
Can you recognize these clichés? You have watched Mexican movies and tevenovelas.
Argentinian clichés verse about immigrants’ arrival by vessel, how things were already fucked up and how the previous worker used to do that job… Ways to give more tasks to the office’s newbie. Peruvians love stories about the oppressed turning tables on the oppressed. In India,the names Anjali-Rahul go hand by hand.
NEW YORK IS AMERICA
The United staters love New York traffic scenes for romantic movies. So much, they forget it is impossible to cross the city in a yellow cab and catch the heroine before she takes her plane to Timbuktu when she left two hours ago. The male character who destroys everything in his ambition. The teenager who only needs some makeup and a haircut to become the fanciest pretty girl on earth without any therapy session to restore her low self steem.
BISEXUAL EXPLAINS IT ALL
Do you want to be inclusive without making your story an homosexual one? Make your main character bisexual and you won’t have to explain why your character is now in a hetero-normative relationship after a long chain of boy-boy lovers or a lesbian break up.
SHARED LONG NAMES EXPERIENCES
You can even go with the long long names shared experience of all America… [Brazil too? I don’t know]; minus those native ones who don’t share the jew-christian heritage. Names such as Clark Joseph Kent or Ernesto José Víctor Pedrollo de todos los Santos.
NOT MY FAVORITE ONES BUT…
Ones you can encounter in manga[1]. Litle pretty girls always wear long dresses and straw hats. The serial killer falls in love and becomes an empathic being…. No one would write that after CSI teaching us serial killers are killers because they lack the empathy screw in first place[2]. However…
Girls wear long dresses plus socks. In 1920 that was common all over the world. Nowadays, you won’t see it very much. Add social pressure about couples and condition equality.The handsome guy must be with the pretty girl. The perfect and smart guy with the perfect and smart girl. Food that comes up wrapped in a big handky or the multi-leveled lacquered boxes filled with food.
The trained police girl who can’t deal with the assaulter in the end and is taken hostage —The black widow changed this cliché a little. The gallant chap who taked the seat belt to strap in on the woman. The perfect man who is handsome, intelligent and kind like a prince…A prince!? Europeans won’t write such a comparison. I mean, their princes can be intelligent and kind or handsome and intelligent but will lack in one sense or the other. Europeans do know since they have princes. The people writing these clichés have but one emperor or none.
WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE CLICHÉ?
If you tell me, I might know where you are from. Maybe not. I haven’t read french clichés.
Remember, anything you say can and will used to create. Have fun sliding some snitching clichés into your writing. Pasto kalo.
[1] Mangas either make fun or take notice of the fact, creating really inventive names that could very well exist in real life for fantasy princes. Names that sound like Phillip Mathias Benjamin Augustus.
[2] Not mocking, just explaining. Anyways, what doesn’t work for me; works for others and the only thing I’m REALLY AGAINST is cancelation just because one has an unpopular opinion. So long it doesn’t hurt anyone’s integrity, opinions are opinions. Plus, these assassins really appear in manga or webtoonwith names such as Emmeline, John, Elios, Farah.
