sábado, 13 de febrero de 2010

PERSEVERANCIA: sangre, sudor, trabajo y lágrimas en el proceso de escribir una novela



Me encanta esta anécdota sobre la perseverancia que leí en un manual sobre escritura, de André Jute. Podemos aplicarla no solo al arte de escribir, sino a cualquier otra meta que uno se plantee en la vida:

“Un premio Nobel me dijo que, en seis manzanas a la redonda del bar en el que estábamos, había cien escritores mejores que nosotros (muy de agradecer que me incluyese). La diferencia entre nosotros, como autores publicados y ellos, como autores inéditos (y acaso sin saber el prestigio que podían estar perdiéndose) era, simplemente, que nosotros nos sentábamos y escribíamos una página al día, o diez páginas al día o cualquier otro número de páginas, y que no nos levantábamos de la silla hasta haberlas escrito. Y en cambio ellos no lo hacían.”

“Años después volví a recordar esto cuando el director de una importante editorial neoyorquina fue a verme a Cambridge, donde entonces vivía yo y, de buenas a primeras, me hizo innumerables preguntas sobre mi salud, los deportes que practicaba, mi actitud respecto de la dieta y del ejercicio físico (...). Luego descubrí que el director literario en cuestión relacionaba la salud de un autor con su capacidad para “hacer codos”, reescribir un manuscrito, y publicar otro libro. En otras palabras, lo relacionaba con la perseverancia.

En las agencias literarias más importantes del mundo lo llaman “regularidad” y, en algunos casos, lo consideran el 99,9 % de la valía de un autor.”

Un famoso editor dijo una vez: “no me traigan ninguna primera novela, tráiganme ocho novelas”.

André Jute nos cuenta que reescribió su primera novela, Reverse Negative, cuarenta y tres veces y fue rechazada por cuarenta y cuatro editores, aunque dos de las tres mejores editoriales de Nueva York que la rechazaron la primera vez la acabaron publicando simultáneamente después de que lograse publicarla con éxito en otra editorial.

La conclusión a la que llega Jute, y con la que estoy particularmente de acuerdo, es que la perseverancia es ese 99,0 % de sangre, sudor, trabajo y lágrimas que aportamos para que aflore ese 0,1 % innato de capacidad comunicativa que se completa con el 0,9 % de técnica y oficio que podamos aprender a base de escribir y tachar, que hace que una novela se a publicable.

“La mayor virtud de un escritor es no rendirse jamás. Si es usted una persona obstinada, terca y testaruda por naturaleza, ya tiene algo ganado”, concluye Jute.

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