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6 years in Dublin

January 22nd, 2012 by you

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6 years in Dublin and I won’t go back Spain.
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Fear

January 7th, 2012 by Cornflakegirl

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After reading Gabriella’s post, Háblanos de tu mayor miedo, I wondered which was my biggest fear. I’m scared of many things. Some of them are small like spiders or other insects. Meanwhile, some other are intangible like evil. I don’t like clowns. Masks are very disturbing for me and I wouldn’t be able to have at home paintings by artists like Munch or Van Gogh not matter how much I admire them.

Digging more about this topic, death and pain come quickly to my mind. I’m not afraid of my own death but my beloved’s. I don’t think that I’m especially strong but pain doesn’t stop me. However, my biggest fear is to die without having lived. Waste my time so much to get my final day wondering what if… Maybe it’s not a popular fear but it’s mine. I’m scared to death of wasting my days. To live my life like an eternal tourist, not getting involved with anybody or with nothing, just visiting the world.

And what about yours?
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2012 Resolutions

January 2nd, 2012 by Cornflakegirl

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This New Year Resolutions can be summarized in just one sentence “Seize the day”. I want to finish two novel’s drafts and one poem book draft. I’ve been searching for my own voice and I hope to be closer to find it. I’m not talking only about writing but many other aspects of my life. This 2012 is going to be full of changes, some of them will take me longer than others but I’ve already started.

There’s no place for anger but for action and I’ve got it started already. Let’s see how it goes.
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Closed for holidays

December 15th, 2011 by Cornflakegirl

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I’m off to Madrid to bother my siblings and spoil my niece. Read you all on my return!
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Let’s get started

December 11th, 2011 by Cornflakegirl

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Anger is fuel. We feel it and we want to do something. Hit someone, break something, throw a fit, smash a fist into the wall, tell those bastards. But we are nice people, and what we do with our anger is stuff it, deny it, bury it, block it, hide it, lie about it, medicate it muffle it, ignore it. We do everything but listen to it.

Anger is meant to be listened to. Anger is a voice, a shout, a plea, a demand. Anger is meant to be respected. Why? Because anger is a map. Anger shows us what our boundaries are. Anger shows us where we want to go. It lets us see where we’ve been and lets us know when we haven’t liked it. Anger points the way, not just the finger. In the recovery of a blocked artist, anger is a sign of health.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
Sometimes we are angry that we feel anger. Damn anger!! It tells us that we can’t get away with our life any longer. It tells us that the old life is dying. It tells us that we are being reborn, and birthing hurts. He hurts makes us angry.

Anger is the firestorm that signals the death of our old life. Anger is the fuel that propels us into our new one. Anger is a tool not a master. Anger is meant to be tapped into and drawn upon. Used properly anger is useful.

Sloth, apathy and despair are the enemy. Anger is not. Anger is not a gentle friend but a very loyal friend. It will always tell us when we have betrayed and when we have betrayed ourselves. It will always tell us that it is time to act in our best interests.

Anger is not the action itself. It is action’s invitation.

Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way

This text has made me wonder and I’ve wanted to share it with you all. Maybe because the end of the year is nearly there, I was wondering about what I’ve done during these months and all what I wanted to do. With the new year, always with renewed energy, I will think about my resolutions and new goals.
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What I’ve learned from Nanowrimo

December 4th, 2011 by Cornflakegirl

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What I’ve learned from NaNoWriMo

1. 50K words are many wrods but it isn’t a completed novel.
2. Planning is the key for not get lost in the plot. However, if you limit yourself too much, it’s easy to get out of plot when you’ve written 30K words.
3. NaNoWriMo is a long distance running and you need to be driven and focused.
4. There will be days where you won’t write down a Word so you have to keep this in mind the days you are writing.
5. The first thousand words are the hardest.
6. The last 10K are even worse!
7. I need to write listening music and the best time for me is after dinner.
8. I’ve not participated in fórum or atended any meeting. NaNoWriMo has been a personal challenge not very social however, I’ve found extremely supporting the people from Google+.
9. NaNoWriMo has been less hard tan I’ve expected.
10. After NaNoWriMo, I need to work a lot on my draft. There are a lot to edit and do!

I’ve also learned that it’s very easy to focus on the main plot and forget about the subplots. I have to find a balance between them when I’m writing from the beginning to the end on a chronologic way because I used to write in a chaotic way jumping between scenes.

Keeping in mind that this was the first time I was taking part on NaNoWriMo, I think I made it very well and what really surprised me is how much I learned from it!
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NaNoWriMo: 2nd week

November 12th, 2011 by Cornflakegirl

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This week has been harder than the previous one, I’ve passed the milestone of 20K words though. I’ve realised that I’ve focused too much on the main plot line and I haven’t developped the secoundary ones too much. I think I should go back and include some pieces of information here and there. However, I will do it after the Nano. How is your writing going on?

I also found out very hard to start writing but as soon as I’m doing it, the words come out easlily and the characters speak more fluently during this week. Now let’s see how the third week is going on. My concern now is that maybe my plot is not enough for 50K words. Any advice?
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NaNoWriMo: 5th day

November 5th, 2011 by you

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Today is the 5th NaNoWriMo’s day and the fist day was very tough. The first 2K words were hard to write, silly and maybe not the right ones but I didn’t want to stop or quit here. Now, after 8K, it seems easier like if all the words before were just a warming up.

In your cases, what was the hardest part? What is helping you out? For me, my plot scheme is a life-saver that helps me to not get lost. I’m also finding very helpful to read my NaNoWriMo colleagues in G+ to see how they are doing (to be honest, I’m not having too much for browsing the forum).

Now let’s move my fingers and get some writing done!
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Halloween

October 29th, 2011 by Cornflakegirl




Happy Halloween 2011

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Being an expat

October 21st, 2011 by you

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Some days ago, I’ve found out the blog of The American Resident, a woman from the States living in UK, and the longer I read it, the more I wondered if I saw myself as an expat. To be honest, labeling is not my cup of tea, I let my feeling take anywhere. I’ve been living in Ireland for almost six years and now when I drop by Madrid, I realise that the city and I are changing in different directions. I feel like home because of my family and friends. However, Dublin is my home as long as my husband is living there.

Sometimes I wonder if I would ever settle down somewhere. On the other hand, I don’t think I should worry about it. There are people who never will.
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