All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

