I rarely have time to make a post, even for my Spain blog (spaingirl.tumblr.com) these days. But here's why: I'm working on a 25 page introduction of my writing portfolio. It will hopefully describe my craft, its general arc and progress, and what has influenced me to write. I have also revised and edited a lot of poems and short stories, and have ( Read more... )

Yes, after I have been gone for ages, I've decided to throw you a fun poem I just made about my Spanish experience. I don't have any illusions of greatness in writing anymore, but I thought it might be amusing. I will perhaps also direct you to my tumblr, where I have been posting very frequently since September. Feel free to add me. I'm quite ( Read more... )

In which I may or may not be ditching LJ, since no one seems to be following along. This was a pretty good document for my reading and writing, but I jacve to admit I'm way more excited about being in Spain and blogging about it on my tumblr. I feel like I actually have some hope that someone will check it out and see another country through my ( Read more... )

I was reluctant to put this anywhere, because I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet. But I will post it here:

( Backyard Love )

...I don't know why I don't have compilation of poetry on LJ, but probably because I assumed I already had one.

This one got published in I-mag:

( La Foca )

Good news: I've finished Caramelo at 31 pages! Mostly because of the very productive sleepover I had with Lindsay, lol. I'm also 15 pages in for the Architecture of Trains. I sent Caramelo to my teacher to hopefully look over and edit, but he hasn't responded yet. Potentially because he's in Cuba right now? They have study abroad classes for ( Read more... )

I can't believe it. The moment is finally drawing near. Linwest and I are almost done with our visual novel Red Walls, after a year of conceiving it. As  my first visual novel, I am really excited. Not to mention that this was one of my first successful completed short stories. I also finished the first draft of Caramelo, but I am going to have to ( Read more... )

On another note, I finished Dawn of the Dreadfuls (prequel to Pride Prejudice and Zombies) a few days ago. It was pretty funny but it didn't make me crack up like PPZ did. I would still recommend the read though, esp after reading PPZ ( Read more... )

So I definitely surpassed the page limit. Somehow I managed not to finish either story. I've worked on it some, and for Carmela at least I know I'm on page twenty three. I have yet to write the fight scene and the after party. Which I just realized could be difficult from first person. Need I say I also need to finish translating? This does not at ( Read more... )

So there's only one week to go before I magically come up with 35 polished pages. I'm on 23 or something like that. Ha...Also my creative notebook finally ran out of pages, in just six months. Last time it took me a year, so I'm getting faster (or a smaller notebook?) which I attribute to the break in writer's hiatus. I'm going for another story in ( Read more... )