Edgar Cantero's Blog, page 7

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Found this picture in my hard drive. It was taken in New York, December 3, 2014. If you care to endure the bad image quality and my handwriting, you may recognize the passage.

These penciled bits of novels will become a thing of the past; since the pandemic began I haven't sat in a coffee shop or written anywhere but on my computer. I miss that. Miss a lot of things. New York too.

A.'s First Name

A random page from Project X

It's not often a table of contents tells so much about a work in progress, so please enjoy this one. And by the way, it's not called "Project X" anymore. Please refer to it by its chosen title. 

A box in a box in a box

In honor of yesterday's 9½-page writing session on Project X including a "box in a box in a box" moment, I thought I might spare a while to share a glimpse into The Process™ and explain what a box in a box in a box is. Big spoilers for The Supernatural Enhancements follow. (And by the way, Project X is not the same as the DIP, and yes, I expect that people keep track of all the different secret projects I only hint at in the most annoying, cryptic fashion).

I don't have any copies of TSE but I ...

Season aesthetics

Back when I was writing Meddling Kids I made one of these image collections with some of the raw ingredients/visuals/influences I'd tossed into the pot. Now I've been working on a new project for a few weeks, I thought I might do it again, just to tease the dozen people who look into these things. Hello there, I do enjoy the attention.


Side note: I miss Tumblr.

Departure

"I hope my editor likes the new manuscript; it's such a big departure from my previous work."

(Old tweet, but feels fresh anew.)

Round Two

>run statrprt.exe file:WIP.odt

MANUSCRIPT STATUS REPORT OT:2020/04/13 ψSC:UNKNOWN

word count: 151,980 (-15,513)
page count: 585 (-71)
# of chapters: 111 (-10)
longest chapter length: 4711 words (-330)
shortest chapter length: 173 words (-48)
opening paragraph length: 7 pages
# of footnotes: 22
# of pages in meter: 5
longest string without punctuation marks: 24 lines
# of named human characters: ~175 (-25)
# of chapters featuring most featured character: ~20
status: beta-ready
title: HEAVEN PARK

n Cool Things

I recently translated to English some of the weekly content I write for El Jueves magazine so you guys can see my more political, compromised side.

My Debut

I'm an admirer of Jorge Luis Borges, whose longest work is a little over 5,000 words. One lesson I learned from him is that a book idea does not always need an execution: it's more efficient to pretend the book has already been written, and provide a commentary on it. That is what he did in stories such as "An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" (1941) or "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" (1935).

Today is the twelfth anniversary of my debut novel, Dormir amb Winona Ryder . I have mixed...

Cooling down

>run statrprt.exe file:WIP.odt

MANUSCRIPT STATUS REPORT OT:2019/09/21 ψSC:UNKNOWN

word count: 169,493
page count: 656
# of chapters: 121
longest chapter length: 5,041 words
shortest chapter length: 221 words
opening paragraph length: 7 pages
# of footnotes: 15
# of pages in meter: 5
longest string without punctuation marks: 24 lines
# of named human characters: >200
# of chapters featuring most featured character: <20
status: cooling down
title: HEAVEN PARK

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