Well, my Creative Writing course is coming to a screeching halt and off course the evaluations will certainly start rolling in as well. My concern here is not whether my teacher was a good teacher or if the course delivered that which it promised to…
Read MoreNote to self
Things to do tomorrow: Stop believing in the USA I firmly believe that the bible is the devil’s prima facie work
Read MoreEse soy yo
Uno de los encuentros más perplejos que me haya encontrado en mi vida, como chicano de Tijuana, es la cuestión del tiempo y la historia que permea mi identidad. Ser chicano es vivir la historia de nuestras naciones, la mitología que ello conlleva, la…
Read MoreFiction is the idea that we must invent worlds and that we must somehow demonstrate, for the sheer purpose of the readers sake, a sort of description without giving too much of what is being told. The idea is to allow for the reader to make up its mind…
Read More‘Voice’ is a hard subject. I feel I have no voice to which I can attach a determined form of writing. However, I do notice that my voice, when am writing, tends to be a melancholic one, a serious one and one that is reflective of what it is…
Read MoreI want to write something beautiful, I don’t know what but I hope that I’ll soon know. I believe I like writing because somehow I too want to depict scenes. The problem is that I don’t have much to say. However, I like words so much I…
Read MoreHay gente que escribe en un sólo idioma y la verdad no sé cómo le hacen. Yo escribo en cuatro. Español, Inglés, Sueco y Espanglish, aunque hay gente que conozco que eso del spanglish se les hace ‘tacky’, nevermind que toda una cultura, la chicana, la…
Read MoreI don’t know if it has been done before but since I certainly haven’t seen it done in the English language am giving it a shot. Although I must confess that it worries me that it has been done before. I frankly don’t know and am doing…
Read MoreChale. Según Border Blogger tienes que vivir en la frontera para escribir sobre la frontera. Y yo que me hacía ilusiones de escribir sobre Tijuana, ya de perdis una autobiografía sobre justo la frontera. ¿Y ahora? ¿Qué hago con todas mis memorias de mi…
Read MoreOn writing
When I write I like it when it gives rise to phonological linkage. This happens very much in both my native tongues, Spanish and English, as Swedish is still hatching from the shell it is incubating in. When a line comes to mind and I write it down, type…
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