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Numbers? Numbers?

Who said numbers?!

Hey, first of all, let me explain the difference between a real person and a fake one.

Fake ones count like the stars

Real ones, hard to find

Fakes Ones like acceptance (that’s why they use other people and/or other people post)

Real ones, stand by themselves, because they know their values and what they stand for

Fake ones, do not like rejection

Real ones, know who they are, and their values is on themselves, not in the crowd.

Fake ones, go for popularity

Real ones, WTF, I’m not a number, but a fucking human being, bad ass, with a word to say to shout out, because that word defines me and makes me who I am.

Just to make clear about the numbers.

En los talleres se trabajan las esculturas, se dan bosquejos, a veces riman otros no, a pulir de nuevo, a sacar ideas desde otras perspectivas, y asi son los talleres. Lugares donde se trabajan ideas. Y a reemplazar, reeditar y asi. Darles nuevas luces al trabajo y asi, la idea es ciertamente empezar a escuchar el mercado por donde las ideas y los trends van, para tener un producto ajustado a una necesidad, y donde las ideas personales se ajustan, y complementan con los demás, para tener un producto que llame la atención.

Reeditar es importante , sobre todo cuando no se le quiere poner mucha mermelada a un sandwich, que después desparrame todos sus elementos y se están engolosinados, echando a perder la obra. La obra debe tener un equilibrio en sus plots, en sus caracteres, en sus world views para hacer un edificio elegante que guste su presencia por lo que ofrece. 

Los amores en los plots no hacen nada, a menos que no estén rodeados de una historia convincente, que mueva los caracteres hacia un propósito central concentrado y desparramado en toda la obra.

EL PUBLICO

Otras cosas a considerar es que la obra, o el publico al cual se dirige la obra es a las parejas de recién casados, jóvenes que fluctúan entre los 16 a los 24 anos, (representan el mayor segmento de matrimonios) con sus castillos de ilusiones, y cuando sus percepciones todavía no llegan a la madurez de parejas entre los 40 y 50 (cuyas pasiones, e intereses y emociones y situaciones variarían diametralmente). Esta obra esta dirigida a D’Bodas & XV Anos, en sus contenidos (por ahora) y sus publicaciones están enmarcadas dentro del espacio de D’Bodas & XV Anos para su distribución y venta por capítulos. La dinámica de valores, conceptos, situaciones para recién casados difiere de los adultos, por lo que los temas también difieren. Creo que la idea es darles a los recién casados ideas de mas o menos lo que pasa en las relaciones, pintarlas, y darles más o menos como una oleada de situaciones -entre aventuras- que se presentan en pareja. Me pregunto en voz abierta, si pudiera traspasar esas fronteras de edad y dejar una obra que pudiera meterse en todo publico, pero siento que perdería el propósito de una obra, porque toda obra debe tener un propósito dado que se invierte mucho tiempo y esfuerzo en su conjugación para perderlos sin un sentido y un propósito, y finalmente si vamos a ser algo, que finalmente sea de valor.

Still working in my shop. Getting ideas.

How can we develop a plot, mixing real young couple dynamics, into the story. That would be the greatest asset!

VALENTINE SCHLEGEL & IRIS MURDOCH

El arte dice la única verdad que en definitiva importa. Es la luz por la cual las cosas humanas pueden ser enmendadas. Y más allá del arte no hay, se lo aseguro a ustedes, nada.

-Iris Murdoch, El príncipe negro. Ed: DEBOLSILLO. Traducción  de Camilla Batlles Vinn.

- Valentine Schlegel, Primera escultura de yeso, taller de Sète, 1955.

How to Write Bad Dialog

Writing bad dialog is almost an art form unto itself.

Recently I read a couple of stories where it felt as if the author was struggling to come up with bad dialog. So I thought I should give a few tips on how to do it properly.

The easiest way to write wretched dialog is to use dialog for the wrong things. In other words, when a scene calls for description, narration, transitions, introspection, characterization, or other things—simply do it all with dialog.

Bad Dialog in Place of Description

Let me give you an example. Our character, Joe, has just reached into the pocket of a dead man that he found washed up on a Florida beach. Now, the natural way to handle the scene would be to show the readers what Joe pulls from the dead man’s pocket. But instead you can do it in dialog, in this case, with another character, Ron:

Ron: Hey, what did you just find in that dead man’s pocket? Joe: Why, it looks like . . . gold pieces of eight, dated 1702!

Can you see how well that works? I mean, if you pulled a piece of ancient gold from a dead man’s pocket, you’d probably take a bit of time wondering what it was, studying it, and turning it over in your hand. But you can handle it faster if you simply have a character blurt a perfectly accurate description. So if you want to win awards for bad dialog, keep putting your descriptions into dialog!

Bad Dialog in Place of Transitions

Here’s how to write a terrible transition. We have just had two men meet, and one asked to meet in private. Let’s have Joe and Ron again.

Joe: Well, here we are in the Redwood National Forest. Sure is a foggy day, what with the wind coming in off the Pacific. What did you want to talk about, Ron, that made you drag me all the way out here, three miles into the trees? You afraid that our offices are being bugged or something?

In this case, the average author might start the scene with the two walking deep into a forest in the early dawn, smelling the fog off the sea, freezing from the cold. Personally, if I were Joe, I’d be a bit nervous, and I’d be wondering if Ron planned to murder me, but maybe that’s just me.

Bad Dialog in Place of Introspection

One of my favorite misuses of dialog is the spoken dialog that should be internal. For example, let’s say that Joe goes to the funeral of Ron’s mother. He walks into the foyer and is approaching the deceased, with people both ahead and behind him. He sees the old crone in her casket, dressed nicely, and then whispers to himself, “I never did like the old bag, but she looks pretty hot today. . . .”

Now, most folks would think that Joe would have to be literally insane to say something like that in public. But as a master of bad dialog, you just might get away with it. After all, I think that by now you’ve established that Joe has diarrhea of the mouth and never can shut up, so maybe readers won’t notice that you’re trying to tell your story through dialog alone.

Bad Dialog in Place of Characterization

Then of course, you can always characterize people by having one character talk about another. For example, Joe might tell Ron, “You know, my daughter Kary is so introverted, I can’t understand why she would want to become President of the United States.”

“She is introverted,” Ron says, “but you know, she also wants to save the country from fracking, and I don’t think that she can come up with any other way to do it.”

That one always works.

Just remember, if you want to become a master of ridiculously bad dialog, the first rule is to use dialog for everything—for descriptions, for internal thoughts, for narrating your scenes, for transitions and deep characterization. Wretched dialog has a million uses!

Cualquier destino, por largo y complicado que sea, consta en realidad de un solo momento: el momento en el que el hombre sabe para siempre quién es.

Jorge Luis Borges, “Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz”, El Aleph (via denisesoyletras)

Todos piensan en cambiar el mundo, pero nadie piensa en cambiarse a sí mismo.

Leo Tolstoy (via elcielosobremi)

In Business Everything is About Trust Entertainment Business Finance

The world in business is based in trust because we depend in that character to make our company grow and go to the next level. In a conversation titled “First Why, then Trust” at TED.Com, Simon Sinek stated “the very survival of human race depends on our ability to surround ourselves with people who believe what we believe. When we are surrounded by these people who believe what we believe something remarkable happens: Trust emerges”.

Trusting in business is about giving the customer the conviction that his or her product will be delivered with high quality. The customer and the service provider will build up a relationship very special for both agents agree to the price, in one side of the equation, and the quality of the product, on the other side of that relationship.

That communication, that trust between both agents generates an exceptional atmosphere, and in words of Sinek “the reason trust is important is because when we are surrounded with people that believe what we believe, we are more confident to take risks, we are more confident to experiment, we are more confident to go out there and explore”.

In that sense, that confidence inspire us to make thing better says Simon Sinek and “When an organization is founded, what they do and why they do it becomes inextricably linked. There is a founder or some group of founders able to put their vision into words and their passion inspire others to come with others and pursue some things grater than all themselves”.  As they work together and succeed, says the author, they cannot rely on themselves because they become a big corporation and the reason “Why” they do it becomes fuzzy “and right there is the split”.

When there is a split between the customer and the business, both of those agents loose something that they really want, they untie a connection and they set free a good relationship that was profitable. Sinek address the loss of Steve Jobs from Apple in 1994-1998 brought that the company sales went down, and started to climb when he returned to the company again. He had the vision and that connection between the customer and the company.

Nowadays, according to the author, you cannot trust through the Internet, the video, and the bloggers because they cannot replace the human interaction, human contact. “Our very survival depends on interact with the human being, a friend is not somebody you check the status on, the conversation does not happen on a blog, and you can not have a discussion on twitter because these are human expressions”.

Certainly that is why a deal is more profitable when the customer and the business owner shake their hand at the end of the deal because that means they trust each other. As Simon Sinek explained it finally “real conversation, what we need is more handshake discussion, more handshake friends, handshake leadership, and we will find our own sense of happiness and inspiration that requires being among people: believe, we believe”.

When we believe, finally I should say, a business is born and a good relationship with the customer is set as a foundation because we believe in both agents, and we trust each other. Nonetheless we will build a product that satisfies high expectations on customers because they trust on us, that we can do exactly as they wanted that particular product to look like, and feel like as Apple and Zappo did with their clients.

To all of you that want to get inspired by this topic go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VdO7LuoBzM

Por que, Juan, por qué? -preguntaba su madre- Por qué te resulta tan difícilmente ser como el resto de la Bandada, Juan. Por qué no dejas los vuelos rasantes a los pelícanos y a los albatros...

Mira Juan -dijo su padre con cierta ternura- El invierno está cerca. Habrá pocos barcos, y los peces de superficie se habrán ido a las profundidades. Si quieres estudiar, estudia sobre la comida y cómo conseguirla. Esto de volar es muy bonito, pero no puedes comerte un planeo, sabes? No olvides que la razón de volar es comer.

Juan Salvador Gaviota. Richard Bach.

Let me fly 🌅🪽 !.