Friday, May 13, 2011

Got it!


Research! That’s the key! I can’t believe I even tried to write a book without it. I need to know every detail, every feeling in order to write the greatest American novel (well, not really, but it sounded a very profound and writer-like thing to say).
Ufff, too much work.
Why can’t books be more like blogs? Then I could write a snappy post about how Oncle M grew up in a fabulous, wealthy family, and had the most amazing, incredible, exciting life while I grew up in freaking Caracas listening to Chavez’s rants, suffering daily water and electricity cuts, and F16 dropping bombs in my backyard. 

A lack of skill is a lack of skill is a lack of skill


OK. First attempt to write a book is a total disaster. Imagined that it would be easier to dissimulate lack of skill under layers of early modernist rhythmic gimmicks. Well, it wasn’t. Back to square one.  

A pyramid is a pyramid is a pyramid

Pedaling, pedaling, to make it just to another pyramid, another pyramid…. Oh, screw it. I’m no Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein I’m not.