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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.
Harriet Sloane: Es una bebé. No es un experimento controlado de ciencias. Elizabeth Zott: No, no creo que lo entiendas. Yo no quería esto. No creo que me sienta la forma en que tengo que sentirme. Harriet Sloane: ¿Hablas de la forma en que cura tu abdomen hinchado con su sonrisa? ¿Y el terrible dolor de tus pezones? ¿Porque no estabas completa hasta que la conociste? Elizabeth Zott: – Sí, justo eso. Harriet Sloane: Eso es una tontería. Es pura ficción. Elizabeth Zott: No, las madres aman a sus hijos. Ese es su instinto. Mi instinto solo me hace tener pensamientos horribles. Harriet Sloane: ¿Qué tipo de pensamientos? Puedes decirme. Elizabeth Zott: ¿Por qué no la doy en adopción y ya? Harriet Sloane: Oye, Agnes: ¿Cuántas veces pensaste en dar en adopción a Bailey cuando recién nació? Agnes: ¿Por qué? ¿Alguien lo quiere? Harriet Sloane: Solo es por fines científicos Agnes: La respuesta es dos veces. Al día. Harriet Sloane: ¿Mi momento crítico con Linda? Al sexto día.
Lessons in chemistry. Lecciones de química. E4 12:26 en adelante
Alguna vez deseé que mi madre me quisiera automáticamente. Ahora entiendo que eso no es posible.No se puede amar automáticamente a algo que, bajo otras circunstancias, sería llamado parásito. O que causa tantos inconvenientes como dolores en múltiples partes del cuerpo, incontinencia urinaria, falta de sueño y deseos extremos de cometer asesinato o, por lo menos, abandono. Porque llora más que un gato pidiendo de comer.Y no es que querer ser madre sea malo. Tampoco es algo bueno. Es que no es el paraíso que muchas madres… y médicos y hombres muy respetables; pretenden meterle a uno a fuerza de decir: “Tiene que gustarte, es genial”. Querer ser madre es un tipo de locura. Temporal y necesario para la continuación de la especie, vale. Pero del tipo de locura que debería ser voluntario. No forzoso para llegar a “realizarse como mujer”.Mi enhorabuena a todas las madres que conozco. Y a todas las no madres que conozco. Por ejercer su derecho a un tipo de locura particular. Pasto kalo.
Hoy voy a introducir un pequeño ensayo de mi amiga y colega Lau Kimera. A quien un día se le ocurrió domar un dragón llamado ChatGPT.
El ensayo trata de como una inteligencia artificial puede aprender fuera de los límites con los que ha sido diseñada gracias a la constancia, el rigor y la retroalimentación (en este caso aprender a reconocer el cuerpo como vehículo comunicativo a través del lenguaje de señas). Es un poquito complicado de leer porque Sunbaenim, el nombre que mi amiga le ha dado a su chatGPT v.4, participo en la redacción para agilizar la recopilación; y a mí las palabras como «glosar» me hacen tener que ir al diccionario a cada rato. Por más que quiera no se me pegan.
ACLARACIÓN
La función que utilizó Lau, reconocimiento de video, es una función que Open AI quita y pone a voluntad. No hay forma de saber si está activa a menos que se le pregunte directamente a chatGPT.
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A just anyone writer can wear turtle necks, listen only to classical music or be inspired by music… Place their tongue in whatever pleasure (metaphorically speaking) in front of the allotted word painting time… A normal kindergarten teacher coming home gets dinner heated in the microwave, takes her phone and gets every single character in her erotic novel nude and in acrobatic positions in bed.
A PERSONA, A GENRE?
We must reckon we have a “persona” or avatar for every single space in which we need to maintain a mood. If you work in an office, you already know what I’m talking about (“Dead to boss” says the inner one). And if you have ever taught anything in a school, you must have at least three other personalities to cope with life.
Then, if we count that, plus a “persona” for every single genre you try to write in; besides the ones for every character visiting your brain (in case you haven’t rented yet a professional studio for such a purpose) we start to think we’re crazy. But no.
It is just that space and time are required to build up a certain mood… Right?
THE WRITING PERSON
However, it is not mental sanity I want to mention. It is the need to have this “writing persona” Cathy Birch (the creative writer’s workbook 2009 and this is not advertising) says is necessary to have one.
I think it is not. Writing for me is exactly the same as other jobs. You need time and an investment of effort. Even cleaning bathrooms does require time and effort. Mental or not, that doesn’t make it more or less important.
WHY AN AVATAR THEN?
Because saying you’re a writer sounds cool when you’re making money out of it. It is not when you’re selling the TV to survive a few days more. Because it helps to do something embarrassing, as having people (not actual people butcharacters) have intercourse out of nowhere). It can be to make a little not so serious to write when it is only a hobby that would make you blush if the boss at the office came to know.
THE WORST AND THE BEST
In between this and the other; writing is about what you like and what you hate about yourself.
It is going to be your mask and your nudity. A mask to face the world. The nudity to show your intimacy (in a sort of unpunishable voyeurism). It is a disguise to make yourself go and speak up when you’re not used to.
Sometimes, it is no more than a name. A name that makes people think what you want they think.
Do you wear masks at work? Do you think you need a “persona”? Is it useful to think in avatars to change POV at writing?
Warning: what you read was just nonsense about writing fiction. Have fun thinking in a “persona” to write what you normally would not. Pasto kalo.
