If it wasn’t for believable characters, why would you be reading a story? Well, unless it was a How-To? History. Okay, okay, there are so many books without characters. In fiction, when you build your story, you want to be able to have characters that truly connect with audiences, and/or at least that they can […]
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I know is not August yet. Somehow I feel that I need to write now because my schedule is becoming hectic as the year runs to its second half. The school year is about to start, high season at work with a merger, the pandemic, not to mention some book work I have to supervise.
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A while back I wrote about having a support group and I wanted to write about this person that has helped me a couple of times. Gabriel Alejandro is an uber-talented person that has been all over the place. Music, comics, podcasts, and vlogs. He gives more than 100% on all his projects. During these
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Another day, another month of this endless ongoing year. Sounds harsh, but you know that 2020 hasn’t been a cup of tea. It has been tough, but it is the same for the characters on the endless stories you and I read. Let’s gather our strength and gather all the tools to thrive on what’s
One thing is for sure. This year is going so slow. We’ve been hit by multiple things all out once. COVID, protests, earthquakes, and others. Here in Puerto Rico, we have already been announced that we are going to a drought season, and to top it all we started hurricane season as well. YEY! In
Sadly this is real. Unfortunately, I think this is one of the things that kill creative work. Either you get distracted by having social media close by. You get a call. Text. Work. In most cases family. There’s always something going on with families, and it is frustrating. Just imagine writing an intense scene, getting
Let’s say you just woke up from an awesome adventure, grueling nightmare, or the most romantic dream ever, and you thought this could be a book. What do you do? You dump all that you remember in a piece of paper and you tap it twice with fairy dust until it settles into your manuscript?
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Let me start by saying this is not a whiny or a rant post. Writing is difficult if you want to do things the right way. Writing is a long process nonetheless and comes with a lot of headaches, self-doubt, anger, and other emotions. I do know if I keep moving forward and create more
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As we continue our ongoing war with social distancing, COVID-19, and battling our mental fights we try to continue moving forward. During quarantine, I managed to do a few things to keep up with all the plans I have this year. Blogging: I know I have been out of my own. I need to be
Right now it feels like all we get are updates, don’t you think? Coronavirus updates. Government updates. Curfew updates between others. I’ll try to make this short and quick because I know everyone is doing so much under this quarantined times. At the moment, Reign of Darkness 2 is getting more words. Hopefully, before the
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