Cheats, secrets, cabals and hobbies Brizuela, Caparros, Castillo, Coelho, De Santis, Fogwill, Heker, Pauls and Pineiro. Moreover, different strategies: planning and improvising
For Ezekiel Vinacour
Every morning, Jorge Luis Borges recorded his dreams and then used that material to enrich their fictions. Ernesto Sabato had a habit of burning afternoon what had occurred until noon. And Carlos Fuentes said that composing "mentally" six or seven pages a day on a tour that included the home of Albert Einstein, Hermann Broch and Thomas Mann in Princeton.
But of all the stories about writers face when the routine of the office, perhaps the most singular belongs to Abelardo Castillo. Years ago, the author of Chronicle of a started suffering from a rare condition, felt he could not get to work without first wiping his typewriter. To do so, had a special little brush to review the types and avoid stopping. His stubbornness often was effective not allowed: as used kerosene, the mechanisms often ended up dirty and, at the end of the task could not be used. "When I wanted to agree, had spent three hours and had not written anything. I think that these things belong more to the area of \u200b\u200bdementia than the ritual area," says Castillo, a little joke, adncultura.
How writers write? How many hours do they work? What time of day? What strategies do you prefer to create plots and characters? What font used? The answers to these questions tend to be confined to the area of \u200b\u200binterviews and legends, rather than that of literary studies. However, provide valuable data when profiling an author and his work address.
Dashiell Hammett, who in his chaotic stage of Hollywood has moved to a suite at the Beverly-Wilshire and received his few visitors dressed in a costly robe with his initials, used to say that a man can do with your life what you want , but writing has certain principles to be respected. It is debatable whether Hammett's life ended with his writing or the writing ended his life. The only certainty, in any case, is that writers are creatures of habit and most of them have a weakness for the ritual and discipline.
Hemingway, who Paris was a party left many tips on the art of writing, said discipline is required to work every morning and to stop thinking about work when leaving your desk, so keep writing it alone in any part of mind. It also recommended to stop writing when the story flowed so smoothly you can take it up the next morning.
The writer, fatally, is made. And in doing so, the rituals and methods help. So thought Faulkner, who also had a rough recipe for any aspiring storyteller. According to the author of Light in August, required a 99% talent, 99% discipline and 99% working to do so.
course that talent and the discipline, many times, can look like chaos. A good example is the story of Antonio Dal Masetto in the process of writing your novel is always difficult to return home. To produce this work, the writer proposed to collect dialogues, notes on napkins characters and descriptions of bars and loose pieces of paper, which was accumulated in numerous boxes of shoes. To impose an order, divided the cases into three groups: beginning, middle and end. Continued until, at a time, put an end to that task, he sat in front of the machine, emptied the boxes and written material gathered from one page a chapter and finally the entire book. "It is a method not recommend it to anyone," he joked after Dal Masetto in an interview.
Another American who has revealed some of the strangest habits is Gay Talese. The author of "Frank Sinatra has a cold" confessed that their day does not start writing at his desk, but in the locker room on the fourth floor of his house. There, each morning she dresses like a Wall Street executive, with shirt and tie. When ready, down five floors to his bunker, a former warehouse without doors or windows in the basement of his home. Once there, she takes off the suit and puts on a common pants and a sweater. Works tirelessly to have a new page on your desktop. Once you have accomplished that task, again dressed like a banker and go home for lunch.
Behind the scenes, away from academic interpretations, some of the most important Argentine writers told him his work adncultura how they cope and how their habits and rituals are also part of his aesthetic. They talked about their fears and the ghosts who visit most often: the terror of the black page (the page full of writing useless), the blockade of creativity, the loneliness that surrounds the craft of the writer and the necessary balance dully always threatened between the genuine creation and writing "for money."
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