“Blogger’s block” : Have you ever heard something more dumb? Why have you a blog in the first place, what do you want with it? I think you just want some quick internet “fame”, or you sell crap or you think yourself you’re smart, if you ever suffer a “block” and you pompously feed the feeders with the fact. A few years ago, a few more, actually, I read Stephen Fry’s Paperweight a collection of his articles at the time. He mocked this “no subject” block in one of the shorties there, by claiming in at least two of them that he only fills the few hundred words required for the article to be published, he had nothing interesting to say and that’s it. He looks like a sort of pioneer to me, so I read The Liar and bought The Hippopotamus when appeared, two years or so, after. He has presence, was ambiguous about his sexual orientation up to a point (not anymore), is very impregnated with his educational background, is talented as an actor, used to be a pompous stick, and now advertise some charity. The Liar was brilliant. I haven’t read the other one, I’ve lost it during a tempestuous relocation a year ago. “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.“ Scott Fitzgerald was a child, everybody … [Read more...]