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  • Grammar or no grammar? Aiming for invisibility


    South Wilts Grammar School for Girls, Salisbury
    South Wilts Grammar School for Girls, Salisbury by Jaggery is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0



    WHAT’S THE USE OF GRAMMAR then?


    Invisibility.
    «The goal of your grammar usage in your novel is simple: Aim for invisibility. If your reader notices your usage, or rather, your incorrect usage, of grammar, punctuation, or other typos in your text, you’re going to draw them out of your story and onto the physical page. They’ll remember that they’re reading, not skiing in Aspen or investigating the black market in human organs with the characters you’ve created. If you do not know the general rules of grammar, you should look them up. Sooner rather than later. Like now. Consider purchasing a book such as the short, influential text The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.»

    Sarah Domet (90 days to your novel)

    I personally, would recommend The good grammar book. It is the quite simple and non nonsense kind of book and the explanations make sense with what’s spoken which is always helpful.

    THE INVISIBLE WOMAN?

    Yes… Grammar is invisible but a lot of authors nag on it.

    Let’s think. How many books do you read annually? Maybe not a lot (I myself don’t read much since Play books has this pretty feature of reading aloud and now I can sew or do stuff while listening[1]… ). Maybe you read a lot of books. Both ways are ok. Sometimes we do not get anything out of a book but we do from the videogame, movie, comic and sometimes; it is all related to cataracts, glaucoma or degenerative stuff happening in both eyes or one… Or we just have to get out time from nowhere.

    Anyways, if you’re here, you read. That or you just have had a close encounter of the worst kind with nonsense (I nonsense, I exist). So you read [obv would my younger cousins say]. Hencefore, you notice with just a glance any time I misspell gramar. Don’t you?

    … Does it upset you? Right. It makes you notice you’re holding a smartphone or some 500 pages big thing, perfect to use in case of assault, instead of luscious padded green moss and the fresh and greasy smell of pine sap surrounded by whispering green needles…the steel sparkling to the sun like the river about to cut the monster.

    GRAMMAR OR NO GRAMMAR?

    Maybe a dictionary in the short term and a bit of conjunction junction is my function.
    After all, you gotta start somewhere.     And that includes having fun. Pasto kalo.

    [1] I never said I was a hardworking kind of person. If something, I’m lazy.

  • It hurt



    Nein nein nein.
    A bump on the forehead.
    Some leaves in my hair.
    That branch should have fallen that way!
    Not on my skull,
    I’m already a fool.
    Pruning…nein nein nein.
    I don’t feel like doing it again.

  • ¿Cómo usar un mise en abyme como indicador para el lector?




    Black leaf pattern

    El subtexto[1]; o texto intercalado de un texto en espejo puede usarse para dar «indicaciones» o realizar montajes con distintos objetivos, dependiendo del momento en el que se incrusta la trama espejo. Los objetivos pueden ser: usar la trama espejo como prospección/predicción del final y como retrospección/manual de uso.

    TRAMA ESPEJO AL PRINCIPIO del relato, SIN FINAL VELADO

    La trama espejo es la misma que la de la trama principal, que se incrusta al principio de la trama principal como una predicción fiel del final y NO HAY NINGÚN intento por ocultar o velar el final de la trama espejo — con lo que se pierde el suspense y se ve claramente la superposición. El tema del dibujante manhwa que se pone a coger[2] con «fulanito» porque ya se le acabó el material o no tiene ningún experiencia para dibujar un comic erótico[3] y su editor le ruega que haga un comic erótico porque en su género original no la hace. O donde la protagonista lee un comic romántico y todo sucede como en el cómic.

    TRAMA ESPEJO AL PRINCIPIO CON FINAL VELADO O DIFERENTE

    El texto intercalado se encuentra al principio pero el autor se esfuerza en desviar nuestra atención, ya sea velando el final de la trama espejo o cambiando completamente el final —con lo que la superposición deja de existir como una indicación de lo que sucederá o no; más adelante. Al principio de Nightmare alley[4], Del Toro introduce la trama espejo del borracho que es usado como fenómeno de feria y al que abandonan frente a una iglesia; como una premonición de lo que le sucederá al protagonista Stan Carslile para después despistarnos con la psiquiatra Lilith Ritter.

    TRAMA ESPEJO HACIA EL FINAL DE LA NARRATIVA COMO EXPLICACIÓN O MANUAL DE USO

    Mike Bak explica que este es el caso de los escritos de Kafka[5]…  Y en ese caso, el texto en espejo no es una prospección o profecía, sino un manual de uso o revelación del significado en retrospectiva [y de nuevo esto me pierde por completo en las marañas del bosque de tejocotes narratológicos]. Podría ser como en uno de esos muchos BL en dónde el protagonista no tiene idea que siente y se encuentra el cómic BL de la hermana y se entera que está enamorado y de paso, aprende como es el sexo entre hombres. Esta narración o texto espejo puede aparecer al principio o al final del manga, según sea un BL o un yaoi.

    Así que, uno de los montajes que podemos hacer o evitar, es el texto en espejo. Y como se me seco el cerebro chorrando esto, les deseo que se la pasen bien. Pasto kalo.

    [1] De nuevo, el texto de Mieke Bal confia en que por sí mismos resulten obvious los conceptos y que conste que le di búsqueda al Drive para ver dónde más aparecía la palabra por si era solo mi mala memoria

    [2] Podría llamar a esto «hacer el delicioso» pero… mi asexualidad sexo avertida me hace mirar el sexo como algo que ya sabes y aún así te lo explican por quinta vez— ¿fastidia o no que le expliquen a uno algo que ya sabe? Por mucho que mi cerebro comprenda que el resto de la humanidad (y con razón o no habría niños), lo encuentre delicioso. Así que «coger» expresa mucho mejor la actividad, en mi opinión.

    [3] Pequeño eufemismo; que lo pornográfico igual puede resultar artístico o el arte resultar pornográfico; y esa es una cuestión tipo huevo o gallina que no me propongo discutir porque de todos modos me leí Ten count y me encantó el arte.

    [4] Usaré el nombre en inglés porque el nombre en español puede variar mucho según el país.

    [5] De lo que no recuerdo gran cosa excepto que K nunca llegaba al castillo (y eso me enteré porque leí el prólogo), el libro me aburrió tanto que no leí ni la mitad y de Gregorio Samsa no recuerdo más que se vuelve insecto… Literatura genial o no, como no soy experta literaria ni nada, no tengo porque leer nada que me aburra. Igual que tú, si es que estás leyendo estás chorradas. Si te aburro, huye.

  • Grammar or no grammar? p1


    South Wilts Grammar School for Girls, Salisbury
    South Wilts Grammar School for Girls, Salisbury by Jaggery is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0


    ME HATES GRAMMAR

    I’ll declare it bluntly. I HATE GRAMMAR. I do dislike it enough to ignore what the heck a subjuntivo is and a post pretérito (one of the many Spanish tenses) must be some bug living under a rock. Future, present or past? I might be able to explain the tense but no idea of the rules. Accents? If is ain’t aguda, it is es an esdrújula… And you must have noticed it already. I have no idea of grammar in my own mother tongue.

    I used to teach English as a foreign language. English as a language books are filled with grammar, phonetics and cultural explanations. Thus I’m more or less good at grammar and I can for sure explain comparatives to a nine y.o.

    Nonetheless I still hate grammar.

    HOW DO I SURVIVE WITH A PASSABLE GRAMMAR IN SPANISH THEN?

    I survive with a copy paste compass I acquired when young and that’s incorporated now to my, sometimes, elephantine memory. We all have one. The memory that keeps anything useless and superfluous to others but us since we like the topic. Such as the 121 chemical elements, Beatles covers’ graphic reticules, name of the album plus director of the MV of each song by Depeche Mode, animations titles, scientific names of the favourite plants ( cyclamen persicum, sinningia, calathea makoyana, pelargonium…), tour and concert or statements by Justin Bieber (you can interchange Bieber for BTS[1]).

    Some people use mnemonic techniques and can access bigger databases but we all have access to one.

    Mine storages plots, titles and phrases. That’s how I can write passably well in Spanish, navigating that sea by sonar (dictionary and text correction turned on in the word processor).

    TO BE CONTINUED…

    [1] Not saying they’re the same, just that the name of the artist is irrelevant when the point is how we storage what we like and not what others do.

  • When the wife does the work but the man gets credit?

  • Un dibujo

    Un par de ramas y luz moteada.
    Con la raíz que no vi…
    Un porrazo entre las manzanas.

  • Los cuentos no son reales

    —Eso es lo que sucede cuando uno se mete en los cuentos —gruñó Yaya—. Lo empieza a ver todo confuso. Llega un momento en que no se sabe qué es real y qué no. Y, al final, los cuentos se apoderan de ti. Te vuelven la cabezadel revés. No me gustan los cuentos. No son reales. Y a mí no me gustan las cosas que no son reales.

    Esmeralda Ceravieja para Brujas de Viaje. Terry Prattchet.

  • 2nd of the 90 days to own your own world… I mean novel

    woman wearing striped shirt holding ice cream
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    Accordingly to Sarah Domet —90 days to your novel— and I’m quoting:



    «Every writer aims to immerse the reader so deeply into the story, to so hypnotize the reader with the details and the writing, that she continues turning the pages. You want your reader to feel like she’s literally present in your fictional world, running right alongside your characters as they get swept up in the action of the story. This is, after all, one of the reasons people read: to lose themselves in a world more interesting than their own.»

    DO YOU WANT THE SAME?

    Your reader running along your characters in your own fictional world [ or maybe write an extension of Star Wars, …………….. (fill in over the dotted line)]. Then, let’s play to wrap up readers into details that might not matter to the most common mortal (until they read a novel; a lot of people miss out seeing, listening to, tasting and smelling much of their conscious time[1]) but connects us —all of us— emotionally.

    Do you have a fav Tee you won’t trash away despite the small holes and obvious wear cause it is the only one that covers your hips at the right height? Would you remember this kind of character or would you forget them? Would you prefer the girl with a box filled with every jewellery brand’s engagement rings[2]?  
    Would you really hate the vanilla smelling cappuccino lover villain? It’s harder hating these kind of bad guys. Do you remember the softness of a Teddy bear? Dressing a Barbie up?

    GO AND USE

    Your nose: go and smell the roses, the intoxicating and indescribable scratch presentation card of the skunk, the nauseating urea smell at the tail of any perfume or aftershave[3].

    Your eyes: time to learn more than the primary colours. Mmmm. You can’t use your eyes? You already know you have adjectives the rest of us can’t even dream with understanding. The same way, being asexual is a joke to most people. Nonetheless I exist.

    Your tongue: besides salty… Can you taste any other flavours? Yeah, blood ain’t just sweet. It has a metallic flavour and smell of its own!

    Fingers, skin: what’s the desk’s surface like? Rough, smooth as a lake or hard and heavy? My drawing table is smooth until you find the scratching of cutter or soil grains.
    Your imagination: don’t look. I repeat, don’t look at the purple tentacle climbing your shoulder and don’t, for whatever’s sake, turn around.

    Go and have fun with your own nonsense. Pasto kalo.

    [1] I’m one of them.

    [2] Right, dreaming we own all those pretty bling bling stones…

    [3] … What can I say, I don’t smell parfums or fragrances as an uniform whole. I don’t recognize EVERY ingredient but the smells come separately and the fixer is always the last one, in the background.

  • Lectores…

    Tipos de lectores

  • Disqualified


    A hundred words?
    Not in toll.
    A story?
    Nibble, nibble the mice ate it away!

    Then the dog devoured the rodent.

    Everyone sighed relieved.
    And the contest?
    Remember?
    Not a hundred words.