blog en español

[desayunoencama]

I've been thinking for a while now that I really need to spin off a separate blog en español, especially now that I've got a new book WRITTEN in Spanish to promote. (For instance, if I posted some excerpts from DESAYUNO EN LA CAMA, I imagine very few readers would be able to make heads or tails of it.) And while it is MY blog and I can write whatever I want and however I want to write it, I also don't want to clutter up y'all's friendlists with material that most of you will just skip over...

I've noticed that on facebook I've been much closer to my actual life than here on LJ in terms of updating in both Spanish and English, as the fancy moves me, or depending on who the update will be relevant to.

I also think that on facebook I have much more of a local and/or Spanish-only circle than here...

(Not to mention the fact that the updates are less permanent and less public, in some way, even though they're read by far many more people on my Facebook circle than those of you who read this blog...)

I'm comfortable on LJ, but it's not very widely used in the Spanish speaking blogworld, so I'm not sure whether to try and start the Spanish blog elsewhere or not. (And laziness and fear of learning a new interface will also no doubt contribute to my not getting around to it for a while. Of course, nothing will happen until I'm back from the Frankfurt Book Fair anyway...)

Anyway, I'll post here when I've finally created a Spanish-language blog, for anyone who might be interested in it.

(And one housekeeping item: david_spain, si lees esto, mándame un email, no puedo contestar tu mensaje porque tienes protegido la cuenta... ¡Gracias! Mi email está en mi perfil, es el nombre de este blog (o sea "desayunoencama") arroba gmail.com)

Comments

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Post an excerpt! I could muddle through.

With emphasis on the "muddle," but that makes it fun! :)

Oh well

[(Anonymous)]

I used to have two blogs, one in Spanish and another one in English. Then I shut them both down and I only have one now, in Spanish, English and Catalan. For me it is easier, thought I don't translate. If I write something in one language I don't it's because I want it in that language.
Then again, I am not a published writer.

Don't know what that FB circle is but as I see it, Blogger is the most used in Spain.

Enjoy Frankfurt

Habibi

Re: Oh well

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

No es cuestion solo de que soy un escritor publicado o no, sino a quien va dirigido el blog.

Yo he usado el blog en gran parte para mantener contacto con amigos en el mundo anglosajón, y por eso empezar a hacerlo bilingüe es un poco complicado porque la gran mayoría de los lectores de este blog no son hispanoparlantes.

Hay algunos que sí, por supuesto, pero creo que hace más sentido si hago otro blog en castellano o incluso bilingüe para ellos, por no mencionar a los monolingües, o los que no son monolingües pero para quienes el inglés no es uno de sus idiomas aunque el castellano sí.

Pero igual como tengo libros en inglés que no están traducidos al castellano, también tengo libros en castellano que no tienen versiones en inglés.

Miraré el entorno de blogger cuando vuelvo, para ver si puedo entender como usarlo. :-)

(Como no tienes una cuenta Livejournal, aunque sea solo para hacer comentarios en blogs de otros, no recibirás un mensaje de que te he contestado... Es una razón que estoy pensando que necesito que el blog en español esté en otra plataforma, porque muy pocos españoles usan Livejournal.)

Re: Oh well

[david-spain.livejournal.com]

Me parece una buena idea crear un blog en español también, ya que hay gran cantidad de hispanohablantes que no saben hablar inglés. :)
Si te sirve de ayuda, los españoles a la hora de hacer un blog, solemos crearnos un "BLOGGER*" (Blogspot). Muchos saludos!! Tengo muchas ganas de ver tu blog en castellano.

Disfruta de tu estancia en Frankfurt! Saludos!!

[*]: blogger.com

Re: Oh well

[(Anonymous)]

I loved the fact that you managed to sqeeze me into your answer, i.e. that you talked about bilinguals, monolinguals and, e.g., Catalans (who speak Spanish).
I believe language is a tool and I use it as such. I use each of the three languages I speak for different reasons and receivers.
I've read this blog for long now (although I didn't comment much) and I will read it if you write it in either language.

About Blogger, it's real easy and it's platform let's other services comment much easier (plus it's Google!). I tried to open an OpenID thingy but I didn't know how to use it. So no link.
Otherwise you can have a WordPress (or a WP alike template like mine) and have different windows for each language in the same blog.

anyways, enjoy the sausages! (i mean, Frankfurt)

[demondoll2001.livejournal.com]

I don't speak Spanish. But I think it's really cool that you are a bilingual writer. Not too many of those in the U.S., are there? LOL

Do you speak any other languages?

(I can't imagine writing in my native language at all.)

[demondoll2001.livejournal.com]

Oh and yes, I'm on facebook, too. And I noticed how it feels more homey there, perhaps because we use our real names and have our real life friends on there?

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I suspect that having a separate Spanish blog makes the most sense. I might even try to read it!

[rgay.livejournal.com]

Quiero te leer en espanol. Es un idea muy interesante.