Autor: Merriam A. Grain
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Crítico, por demás.
Mi sitio, gagá.
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Esta carpeta con la etiqueta “merriam”?
¿Por qué “público” PHP?
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El sitio,
¡Operativo!
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Sin GPS
«escribir una novella es como conducir un auto de noche. No puedes ver màs allá de tus luces delanteras pero igual te avientas todo el viaje así.”
E. L. Doctorow. Cita hecha por Anne Lamott en Bird by bird. Anne Lamott
Ahem. Yo necesito el final. Eso es como my GPS. Cierto que la maldita cosa pide dar vueltas en U en lugares prohibidos y quiere que cambie de objetivo y añada paradas que no quiero pero aún así las propone. Si no sé por lo menos eso no puedo dividir en tareas más pequeñas.
Y sin embargo, en esta ocasión me siento como si estuviera escribiendo un nonograma. Uno grandote. De 80×80 casillas. Y Ziggy tiene una memoria de elefante.
Diviértete intentando mirar más allá de las luces delanteras en la oscuridad. Pasto kalo.
An author is taken to be someone acknowledged as responsible for a given printed (or sometimes written) work; that is, authorship is taken to be a matter of attribution by others, not of self-election. A writer is anyone who composes such a work. A writer therefore mayor may not attain authorship. A text is the content of any written or printed work, considered apart from its particular material manifestation.
THE NATURE OF THE BOOK. Print and Knowledge in the making. ADRIAN JOHNS. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS. CHICAGO AND LONDON
Then I’m only a writer because I comment on books about writing or books about books[1]. I have no authorship because nobody has called me an author yet.
That reminds me something I read (by a writer who prefers to use the pen name of a dead writer[2]); people discussing the writer as a person and not as an author. Do we, by denying the authorship of poems and novels to writers and comment, instead, about the author as a person; become the creators of garbage knowledge? Do we really kill the authorship by discussing the person and not the author?
It is a question. I understand why to discuss the writer (or the musician or the filmmaker or the singer) as a person and not as an author. We don’t want authors to become the creators of reality by forcing reality to adjust to what they think reality should be without practicing it. We don’t want, any longer, Jean Rousseaus marauding around.
I elaborate.
In Ovejas y mierda[3],the character of Eudald is capable[4] of messing up with his mother’s car in order to film the afterwards rehabilitation and film true reality. Because, for him, a documentary shouldn’t become the interviews after the incident but the incident itself. In his mind, things have to be shown the way they happen even If you have to help reality to happen. He won’t stop at almost killing or raping.
Sick? It is horrid! This person is an… Yes. That. But he creates wonderful documentaries! (fictitious of course). Such an author should be stripped of their authorship… I understand why we discuss the person and not the author. I’m as emotional as anyone. However, does the person being horrible cancel automatically that they wrote, sing, film… “beautifully”?
I’m a jobless, lazy person. Am I as sick as this character? It worries me. And no, sometimes worrying about is not enough to proof you’re not a horrible person. Should I be denied authorship?
And by worrying a lot more about the last, do I become a worse person than the one I am?
Pasto kalo.
[1] As Mikita Brottman remarks in The lonely vice, now we have lots of books about books. Though I’m starting to think that started much before. When folklorists and writers like Barthes started to write about myths and folklore. They were writing about how stories come to life and what they’re made up. At times when people still took a pen and started writing without a manual.
[2] He is American.
[3] Literal translation of the title: Sheep and shit. Oriol Font i Bassa. 2018.
[4] No one can proof it but it is rumored and the author takes us by a documented (documentary translated into novel) format.
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Red flags in your writing
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With fault
A dream not
For the things that pass down.
Perfect?
Hell no!
For the powder needed in white form.
Slightly yellowing inside and...
What else?
Skin that's gained experience?
Maybe thirty minutes at most,
Walking the streets, alone.
Lost the speed to run after the bus.
Maybe,
Just maybe.
A bit more than enough.
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De olor conocido
Se dirigía con decisión hacia una callejuela lateral. Allí había un par de alborotadores que iban de por libre y se dedicaban sobre todo a destrozar tiendas. Rincewind hizo caso omiso de ellos y siguió el muro hasta que éste discurrió paralelamente a un callejón oscuro que tenía el desdichado olor de los callejones oscuros de todas partes.
La luz fantástica. Terry Pratchett.
¿Podría ser que todos los callejones del mundo tienen en común los borrachos, los perros y los gatos? No necesito mencionar el olor.
¿Qué otras cosas tendremos en común con otros lugares del mundo? ¿Y qué cosas son únicas de nuestro lugar del mundo?
En el mío, ya no existen los puestos de periódico.
Diviértete describiendo las cosas únicas a tu alrededor y tratando de figurarte que no lo es. Pasto kalo.
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Invisible?
The Hero’s Journey is a skeletal framework that should be fleshed out with the details and surprises of the individual story. The structure should not call attention to itself, nor should it be followed too precisely.
THE WRITER’S JOURNEY ~ THIRD EDITION. Christopher Vogler. Published by Michael Wiese Productions
…. The problem of using a recipe is that, sooner or later you can tell the structure. The problem of not following a structure? There’s no satisfaction for the client.
There are ways to call attention into the structure in order to distract from the plot unfolding itself. Read Witches abroad to discover how. Pasto kalo.
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Dystopias
…. I think both dystopias happen in many countries. The US have now the ICE (the thing is calling aliens the people the boot is upon so the «real» citizens can’t realize). Mine has narcs, taxes paid only by the entrepreneurs and journalists being silenced. Plus tik tok. Thus dystopias are more than fiction.
Apenas nada
Apenas cierto.
Claro como el cielo.
Helado sin prospectos.
Atorado en el esófago de aquello.
Un guisante en el desierto.
Diccionario escaso cuyas páginas en blanco esperan otro día.
Otro vistazo que alargue su vida.
Pintura derretida o pan de oro según decida.
No mi voluntad.
Sino tú vista.