Reading to Write

Lela Davidson says in her blog that she can teach you how to write a novel in six months. I will check this link later:

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Write-a-Novel-in-Six-Months--Week-Seven-Detail-Scene-Beats

Writing a novel in 6 months, wow! Wish I could! I will follow Lela Davidson’s web site and advise later.

For the moment being, I have a lot of reading to do in order to write my novel: politics—especially our little President’s corruption and his fight against corruption, LOL--, the war on drugs, kingpins, cartels, guerrilla squads, and so on. So I bought a few books, which I am enjoying.

Diego Enrique Osorno, a young Mexican journalist, wrote a book about the Sinaloa cartel, which is one of the biggest transnational “companies” in my country. Many claim that the government is protecting its kingpin, Chapo Guzmán, and fighting his foes. Why? Intelligent people can draw their own conclusions, but my guess—and by the way, Osorno’s guess also—is that there must be a link between our President and Chapo Guzmán.

Osorno says there were many who thought Calderón won the presidential election with fraud. At least, Calderón was by no means widely supported; he knew he had to do something to become a popular president. So he instated the war on drugs, and the Pandora box was open…

Another book I am reading is Señal de alerta (Alert Signal) by Manuel Espino, who used to be a party colleague of Calderón’s in the PAN. In fact, when Calderón was elected President, Espino was the PAN President. The author does not talk about the ballot, and does not even say the word “fraud”, what a shame… He must know a lot about the topic… But he is a critic of Calderón, and especially of his opaque alliances with PRI’s dark and powerful politicians like Beltrones and Gordillo. Espino states that this alliances can endanger our fragile “democracy”. The bad thing about the book is that Espino loves to waffle, he is a big pretentious mouth—or pen—his style is long-winded and he beats around the bush…

Another book I want to read is:
Hablan las actas (Ballot Papers Speak), José Antonio Crespo’s book about “irregularities” in the 2006 presidential ballot. Last time I checked, it was out of sell.