Latin@ Poetry

In addition to being Autism Awareness Month, April is also Hispanic Heritage Month and Poetry Month. Therefore...

Ten Responses to the Phrase 'Man Up' - Guante

Accents - Denise Frohman

Being Hispanic - Greg Garcia

For Jesse Hernandez - Denise Frohman

Brown Girl - Yesika Salgado

Shrapnel - Amaris Diaz

Frats - Jozer Guerrero

Victory!

I won NaNoWriMo! 55,309 words!

Okay, the last three chapters were mainly the main characters swearing for several pages, but hey, that's what revision is for!

Also, the title is now Not Another Corny Road Trip Love Story, I changed Ani's name to Atea, and my English teacher is making me promise to make him a character (so I'm including this wizard guy who is like half him and half Dumbledore). It should be fascinating.

Other interesting notes: I am finding it hard to get used to using contractions again, not working on my novel in class (I usually get my homework done early, and since I'm pretty quiet, none of the teachers really care much what I do after that), and writing numbers as digits and not words again.

Also, I just want to say how proud I am of the other participants, especially a certain German blogger who goes by Betty and speaks amazing English. I know that this NaNo has been hard for her, because she based part of her novel on her relationship with her crappy ex-boyfriend, and I think she was very brave for pushing herself through that.

The Stars are Fading

The serialized story blog is up! I have five characters shown in a character chart - Lena, Jesus (pronounced hay-soos, like on The Fosters), Cam, Gillian, and Adrian, in that order. I'll start up the actual story the minute I have time, but I'm in North Carolina at the moment for a family function, and I'm going back to Michigan on Labor Day (and after that, I'm starting my junior year). I haven't seen any relatives yet - most of them are staying at other hotels, so I'm going to just walk around for the moment. It's really pretty down here (hot, yet pretty...that sounded vaguely dirty...) so I don't want to miss anything. I'll try to keep you guys updated, but no promises.

Link to The Stars are Fading

Serialized Story

I was reading this book, Goth Girl Rising, where the main character's love interest was a comic book writer who serialized his work. I thought it was really interesting, and even though I don't draw, I've decided to do the same. So, even though I'm still keeping up We are the Rainbow, I'm starting a new blog for a serialized thing that I'm working on. I haven't decided what it's called, though.

It seems like a really fun idea, and hopefully it'll get a publisher to take notice of me. Wish me luck.