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tables of the law.
There is no feeling more pleasant to get on a pulpit and preach with the beans in his pocket. Knows that the Messiah politicians and any successful writer, trying to explain what keys probably have no idea what has come to pass. There decalogues everywhere, tips scattered, self-help guides, psychomagic .... on the art of writing, Poe, Kafka, Hemingway ... many writers have fallen into error, for me, explaining the magic trick, and bad magicians who break the illusion.
Here are some if not aware, is cumbersome but it is funny how they can even be contradictory, in short, let them by if they are finicky and need to follow a guru.
Augusto Monterroso.
First: When you have something to say, say, when it, too. Always written.
Second: Never write to your contemporaries, much less, as many do, for your ancestors. Do it for posterity, which undoubtedly will be known, it is well known that posterity will always do justice.
Third: Under no circumstances forget the famous dictum: "In literature there is nothing written."
Fourth: Whatever you can say a thousand words say it a hundred words what you with with a. Never use the average, and never write anything in fifty words.
Five: Believe it or not, writing is an art, being a writer is to be an artist, as artist the trapeze, or the fighter par excellence, which is struggling with the language, train yourself for this fight day and night.
Six: Take all the disadvantages, such as insomnia, prison, or poverty, the first made to Baudelaire, the second and third Pellico all your fellow writers, avoids it, sleeping like Homer, the quiet life a Byron, or earn as much as Bloy.
Seventh: Do not chase success. The success ended with Cervantes, as good a novelist to Don Quixote. Although success is always inevitable, Find yourself a good failure occasionally for friends grieve.
Eight: Get trained intelligent audience, which gets between the rich and powerful. Thus no shortage either the understanding or encouragement, that emanates from these two sources only. Ninth
: Believe in yourself, but not both; doubt you, but not both. When you feel doubt, believe, when you create, doubt. Herein lies the only true wisdom that can accompany a writer. Tenth
: Try saying things so that the reader always sits in the background is equally or more intelligent than you. Occasionally it is actually seeking, but to do that have to be smarter than him. Eleventh
: Do not forget the feelings of the readers. It is usually best they have, not like you, who lack them, because otherwise would not try to get into this business.
Twelve: Again the reader. The better readers will write more, while you give them increasingly sophisticated work, a growing number apetecerá your creations, if you write things to the heap will never be popular, and no one will try to touch the bag in the street, and will point to the finger at the supermarket.
The author gives the writer the option of discarding two of these statements, and keep the remaining ten (GREAT).
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Tables of the Law II
Onetti.
I: Do not look to be original. Being different is inevitable when one does not care to be.
II: Do not try to dazzle the bourgeois. It is no longer. It just gets scared when they threaten his pocket.
III.No try to complicate the reader, nor to seek or assert your help.
IV. Do not write ever thinking critically about friends or relatives, the sweet girlfriend or wife. Not even in the hypothetical reader.
V. Do not sacrifice anything literary sincerity. Neither politics nor to win. Always write for this other, silent and implacable, within us and can not fool.
VI. Do not follow fads, renounced the sacred teacher before the third crowing of the cock.
VII. Do not just read the books already established. Proust and Joyce were despised when they stick their noses, today are geniuses.
VIII. Do not forget the sentence justly famous: 2 plus two equals four, but what if you were 5?
IX. No issues with strange narrative disdain, whatever their origin. Robert, if necessary.
X. Always lie.
XI. Do not forget that Hemingway wrote: "Even gave readings of the pieces ready for my novel, which becomes the lowest in which a writer can fall. "
a master-Poe, Maupassant, Kipling, Chekhov, as in God.
II. Cree that their art is an unreachable summit. Do not dream on taming. When you do, you will get without knowing yourself.
soon as you can to imitation, but imitation if the influence is too strong. More than anything else, the development of personality is a long patience.
IV.Ten no blind faith in your ability to win, but in the ardor with which you want to. Love your art as your girlfriend, giving all your heart.
V. Do not start writing without knowing the first word where you're going. In a story well done, the first three lines have nearly the importance of the last three.
VI.Si want to express exactly this situation: "From the river the wind blew cold," no more words in human language that aimed to express it. Once you own your words, do not worry if they see each other consonants or assonants.
VII. No adjectives unnecessarily. Useless few lines of color will adhere to a weak noun. If you find that necessary, he will only have a unique color. But you have to find it.
VIII. Takes your characters by the hand and bring them firmly to the end, without seeing anything but the path that traces. You do not get distracted seeing what they can not or do not care to see. Do not abuse the reader. A story is a novel purified of rubble. Take this for an absolute truth, but it is not.
IX.No write under the sway of emotion. Let her die, and then evócala. If you are then able to revive it as it was, you got into art in the middle of the road. X.
not think of your friends to write, or print that will make your story. Account as if your story has no interest rather than the small area of \u200b\u200byour characters, of which you may have been one. Otherwise not get the life story.
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tables III law and Javier Cercas
First. Remember that the only way to writing success is the best book you can write that book before I finished writing did not even imagine that you could ever write. Do not seek any form of success: it is she who will look to you. If you get it, do not be afraid and do as if nothing had happened.
Segundo. Do not write to your mother. Not for your father. Not for your girlfriend. Do not write to your friends. Do not write to your enemies (especially not hate, hate, what Michael Corleone said, does not allow you to judge). Definitely do not write for critics. Not to publishers or agents for or indeed for that abstraction called reader, which, as its name suggests, does not exist. Not even write for yourself. Write for an impeccably omniscient God who knows even when you're trying to trick you. And then he laughs with a horrible laugh. Third
. Do not forget to write a sentence is to solve a problem that the phrase again raised. Needless to write a book is the same. Beware of the facility. Do not try to be smart or wise or profound or funny or fun (by God holy, do not try to be funny or fun: it is the book.) The book is much better than you, you're not a poor man, like everyone else. Dedicate yourself to anything you write notes about trying to look good. Do not forget that writing is rewriting, ie to find out what was inside you without you knowing it. Fourth
. Flee like the plague of beautiful phrases, words beautiful, the people that write to capitalize the word art, word artist, the word work, the word beauty, especially the word beauty. Escape from anything that sounds remotely literature is literature that never even remotely sounds like literature: sounds just right.
Quinto. Set aside the fear that you (and you know you have a terrible fear) for life, and destiérralo as soon as you sit down to write, to see full and true in your books, which are what they really are. Remember that this office is not for sissies, but it also recalls the brave that no one who has no fear, but he is afraid and hold and then rams and go for broke. Sixth
. Write as if you were dead and remember or invent (whatever) as happened to you or others, like if you wanted to realize a mirage, as if against all evidence would have convinced you that in the time you get materialize, what happened to you or others will become more real than real, which after all is nothing. Remember, of course, there's nothing more important than literature, except life. Seventh
. Grow your obsessions, your vices, your madness and, in moderation, your sanity, your perplexity grows, your passions (high and low, mostly low), your taste transferable (the good and bad, mostly bad ) and do not forget to laugh with cheerful ferocity of yourself. Remember that your faults are also your virtues: sick of wine or reject a compliment, because, this is not Michael Corleone said, but the Rochefocauld, but for that matter-who rejects praise is because he wants two. And above all, for anything resign yourself to being envious of a colleague or speak ill of him is a confession of inferiority.
Eighth. Read it all, just reread the depths (but re-read much), write what you get out of the bowels, so to speak with a distinguished-word, and publish only what you can not publish. Unless you've decided to commit suicide or you've lost all respect for yourself or creditors threaten you with imprisonment or torture rack, do not rush to publish.
Ninth. If you write with a computer, listen to me, and occasionally pressed the Save icon, and do not skimp on backups: more do nothing to save yourself the mess before the masochistic imagination, basely flattering that just lost forever the sentence or paragraph or page that you would justify, if you write by hand, unless you have a chance to make mess, so it is preferable to write by hand. This command is the last, but should be the second. Tenth
. Remember (this command is the last, but should be the first) never ignore any decalogue. Beginning and ending it that you establish yourself on a newspaper decides that you are a successful writer and interview you for jamming a decalogue the successful writer.
- My favorite, I hope you forgive me:
1. You will read, then read, then read, then read, then read from the beginning of your days until the end of them. Read the classics with a dictionary and a grammar by hand to see you do not understand, and not tell anyone. Because the aim is not to do to others what you worship, but understand that it is difficult to offer something new.
2. Fleeing the new writers forums and anywhere there is a rally widespread among poor people who lack the slightest intellectual approach.
3. Not to mention Bukowski, or Kafka, or Nietzsche, or Cortázar, or Poe, or to Benedetti, Lucia Etxebarria or if you expect to be taken seriously.
4. You see movies and read books with little or no intellectual and cultural significance, for the simple pleasure of it and because sometimes you're so silly as the rest of humanity. Do not forget.
5. Do not idolize anyone alive. And above all, do not you pursue this with your pathetic idol manuscript to read. Has more important things to do and is fed up with running into dudes like you.
6. Remove them from your mind the word "publish" and you devote to work as it is sent. Then we'll see.
7. You will not feel something special. You're not.
8. Do not dress extravagantly, nor will smoke a pipe, or you'll get a ridiculous pseudonym, or you'll be a dirty or messy full, or you proclaim the left, or anarchist, or apolitical, or anti-monarchist, nor believe in free love ( especially if you can not explain what that is), or do anything else that serves to draw attention. That will not help you write better.
9. Adecuarte know the whole situation and all sorts of people, and have ability to keep conversations superficial and vulgar as the audience requires, it will be healthy for you and others that do not have to stand your airs of an intellectual.
10. Respect your concealer, if you ever have it.
My personal opinion, all these commandments into two categories: read and write. The rest is given by common sense and work, hard work. The writer's craft can be learned and that trade itself may be valid that advice. But having the profession does not guarantee the genius writer, who knows why it comes in mysterious ways. End of roll
ranker. If you've read everything and have come here looking háganselo. Your situation is serious. See if you learn something, dammit.
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Vale. I will look at me. A jewel this intervention, this also liked. (I think this rally comes on the precepts to forget.) Let's see if I can stop smiling. Thank
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- writers and editors. Write. By JJ Armas Marcelo.
"Writing is not easy. Not to be confused, as do many-to write that either. A bad writer will notice the flaws in the insistence error, for wanting more when it is less. A good writer even spares his life and can be rewarded one day with an award that nobody wants. On the other hand, some posh writers, when they win a prize economically important, they justify it the same way: the money they want to buy time and write. It sounds to me that the term was invented by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán around here, when the planet. The Library Lady came up afterwards and said it as is, as a copy: all that happens is you've seen or heard anywhere and make it his own, a habit of Adam. "
(The ABCDE ARTS AND lyrics of Saturday).
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Re: Tables of the law. Último.Respuesta to: tables of the law. Finally. Asombrillada I'm going to do me look. Perhaps to make us go off together.
as I know I should not cite norecuerdoquién Cortázar but ... I read long ago that had endorsed the warrant Onetti: "Tell your story as if no interest rather than the small area of \u200b\u200byour characters, of which you may have been one. not otherwise get life story. " Or maybe he had not endorsed and referred to him only to justify the success of his stories, nor remember. If I highlight it because, after all, what are the stories of the inkwell.
What I liked most is the paragraph that advised not to attend new writers forums ...
Sabroson. Thanks for putting. Vichoff
VICHOFF 21/05/0720: 06
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