Entry #6

I am not a superwoman

It has more than twenty days since my last post, and I’ll tell you that I don’t have sure if I've overcome the “writer’s block”. During these past days lot of things happened, I wrote some sentences, but I don’t feel that these "things" were interesting enough to publish here.

Well, one event touched me those days. One of the most important brazilian journalist Ricardo Boechat back to work on Thursday, after to stay ten day at home, recovering from severe depression. In the day he went back to television he published a post talking about how he thought to be unbeatable. While I was reading his post I started to think how right was my idea to go back to the therapy.

I am proud of myself because I've had the humility to realize that I couldn't pass by my adaptation in Houston by myself. I realized that I am not a superwomanI realized that I really feel bad when even a store doesn't offer me a job, for instance. And how important is to my family see me good, physically and psychologically.

Ask for help is not a simple decision, as well as tell everyone about this. But maybe, this post can encourage someone to ask for help. It doesn't have to be a therapist help, can be a help from a friend, from a relative or even from your neighbor. And It can be a help for anything. The big mean is see that we try, but we can’t do anything alone. Together is easier and funnier.

Entry#5

Writer’s block

I am sure that everyone who works as a writer once in your professional life has written a text talking about the day when the ideas didn't come. For me, this is not my first time. I can remember to write about that subject when I was taking classes to write short chronicles in Porto Alegre. It was a long time ago. But, now it’s my first time in English language.

Once I read two different interviews with two big Brazilian writers: Jorge Amado and Clarice Lispector. And both said that the worst incentive that a writer can have is the obligation to have to write. Even if you love writing and work with this, sometime the ideas will run away. On the other hand, having a dead-line to deliver a text can be very motivating.

Actually, the ideas disappear in the exact moment that I need them: when I sit to write a post. I have some ideas during the week, the problem is that if I don't write them, they will disappear. 

In 2008, I attended a small course with Charles Kiefer at Porto Alegre Book Fair and he said that one day, he was driving his car in the road and had an idea to write a text. Immediately, he stopped his car in the road shoulder, picked his notebook up and wrote the idea. I think I should do this.

I know that the one of the goals of this blog is to show for the americans recruiters how creative I am. It is not good, for me, publish a post talking about the day that the creativity is gone. I am sorry, recruiters, but this kind of situation happens more frequently than you can imagine, even with big authors!