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  • The power of narrative or the narrative of power?

    This is a question of what came first and the truth is: narrative came first!

  • Sequía



    Lazo de mecate,
    Allá en el horizonte.
    La tierra con una sed que se deslava monte abajo.
    El encino que cede,
    La hierba desaparece.

  • Un imperio huérfano



    Al morir en Babilonia, dejo huérfano a todo un imperio que se extendía desde Grecia hasta la India. Pero antes que emperador, Alejandro Magno era la personificación de un sueño universal. Dejando a un lado los éxitos militares; ese fue su verdadero legado, una epopeya y un sueño. El sueño de un imperio universal que uniera oriente y occidente, un imperio sin fronteras.


    13 de junio de 323. Fechas inolvidables de la historia, programa. David Bûcheron.

  • What’s adaptation?

    Sometimes we share the liking for telling stories and telling them well. Or the wish to adapt them to listen to or look at them in some other way cause we want to experience them in a particular way. In the darkness of a room and eating popcorn. In the darkness or brightness of a room and listening to great voices.

    There really is something about adapting, that is outside the common places of the plot. You can’t write without knowing the peculiar and charming features of each media. You need to be sly when reading how to write manuals.

    Writing is similar to Designing. THERE’S NO METHOD.

    JELLY AND PROCESS

    If I ever did pay attention in Aesthetics of design class. I can convincingly say a method is something we use when we know the result of it.


    Think of jelly. It’s always the same. You know the colour, the flavour and the texture you will get at the end (after all you chose such characteristics displayed in the  box). You boil water, mix the powder, pour it into a container, cool it in the fridge. Wait the time. Always the same result. There shouldn’t be any variation to it. No surprises. Unless you knowingly added or omitted a step. Yet, you know what you’re changing.

    Once the result is something unknown because you don’t have idea what you’re getting in the end. I meant we know you will end up with a novel, script or comic but do we really know the shape it will take? Doesn’t the final product differ a lot from the original draft? I’m such cases there’s no method. We have a process model.


    HILARY MANTEL

    She, whom I’ve already had the shameless to paraphrase, explains what adaptation is, in a Reith lecture. Here the link in case you feel like listening to. It’s my not humble opinion you should go and listen to it.

  • AI and creativity

  • Alguna vez

    Que la maja le tiró los tejos
    Y el muy cabra quería que le diera el alma.
    Y eso no, le dijo ella.
    Eso es mío y de nadie más.
    Y si quieres seguirme, me seguirás.
    Y si no, otros llegan por donde tú te vas.

  • De cosas raras

    —He venido de virgen —dice—. Son tan raras en estos tiempos que mandan unicornios a buscarlas.

    Wriothesley en Una reina en el estrado. Hilary Mantel

  • When we lack one of the following three p2

    woman in white monokini swimming on body of water
    Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com

    Last time I was nonsensing about money as something we want and how does it affect the plot. Today I’ll finish with beauty and talent.

    WE’RE THE BEASTS

    Second shortcoming. Beauty. We’re obsessed with it. We can have actors growing old naturally and all the rant; but we still hold such things as the most beautiful Forbes people, don’t we? We watch k dramas based upon the plot (notice that by saying that the plot is only the beautiful actors you’re confessing the only worth in then is beauty… ).

    Any time I find myself a new wrinkle I get a new one worrying about how I looked two years ago. Contrasted upon the biology of the sexually attractive yell of: «fertile» given away by symmetry and secondary sexual features such as booty, cleavage and waist or a nice six choco pack. In a nutshell, I’m hideous! [Passably average, I’m really not that bad].

    Hencefore, I demand my daily dose of lanky dreamy bodies to calm my insecurities and dream on something I’ll never posses (and gets me blue from time to time). Ah, MY asexuality doesn’t make me immune to aesthetical attraction (some asexuals do not even feel aesthetic attraction to human bodies so mind this), it only omits the «I’d like to be fucked by this chap or I’d like to fuck this person» switch…

    SOMETHING YOU DO IS CLEARLY GENIAL?

    Talent. Talent requires the stomach to stop listening when someone’s telling you all your cousin’s own a car and retirement plans[1] (alert alert, emotional vampire on sigh) whilst you play writer doing miscellaneous jobs or… none.

    Nonetheless the gall to keep doing something for enough time for someone to notice (as Asimov said), is not that easy to come upon. Thus, talent is something we worship as magical.

    It is not magical. But it requires shameless and luck. Not everyone has the luck. And not everyone is shameless enough. Plus, it takes hard work. I’m a lazy one.  Thus I’m not as talented as someone who places their rear 8 hours a day down to write.

    In conclusion, talent is the easiest of the three [because it doesn’t depend on luck]. But we all would like to bask in the sunlight of beauty, money and… talent. And we might pay to be told such tales.

    Telling a different tale, it is time to have fun writing. Pasto kalo.

    [1] We can decide not to measure success in such terms.

  • Cause it doesn’t matter when but the small stuff of who

    Except for the dishwasher, we wash dishes by hand in the Spanish speaking America [the continent], the rest of the inventions are the small details of life that make it a lot little better.

  • Camachuelo



    Turi turi turi la alharaca
    De cabecita roja,
    Su escarapela.
    De obrero mi pana,
    Entra y sale del ciprés.
    Y a la mañana,
    Tremenda fiesta me arma.