Seguimos hablando y la siento con deseos de guarachear.

Mañana a estas horas estaré jugando a los bolos con los angelitos.

Someone—I can’t remember who, for the life of me—once wrote that all novels are really letters aimed at one person. As it happens, I believe this. I think that every novelist has a single ideal reader; that at various points during the composition of the story, the writer is thinking, “I wonder what he/she will think when he/she reads this part?” For me that first reader is my wife, Tabitha.

I need to get ideas out in front of me so that I can see them properly, and writing not-fully-baked notions on a website is often the best way for me to do that. Social media does not “get” not-fully-baked. Social media is useless for thinking out loud and exploring notions. Social media — bizarrely, given its nature — does not do context.

It would calm me when I would start to think that what I was doing was important.

[Jerry Seinfeld kept photos from the Hubble telescope in the Seinfeld writer’s room for cosmic perspective:]

La historieta consiste en transmitir informaciones por medio de dibujos y palabras integrados entre sí. Un chiste de Forges para mí es historieta, una página de El príncipe Valiente también. Lo mismo unas instrucciones de cómo montar un mueble de Ikea. Con lo que los esquemas cartesianos, los diagramas de flujo y otras formas de mostrar visualmente información me parecen que pueden ser recursos tan útiles en nuestro medio como los bocadillos o los cartuchos de texto. Poner límites a un medio híbrido cuya principal ventaja es que tiene pocos límites, me parece una tontería.