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Lana del Rey – Born to die

January 29th, 2012 by Cornflakegirl

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I love the story that she told and how she does it. Her voice, her look, everything about her makes me keep my eyes looking at the screen even knowing that we’re born to die.
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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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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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A friend and with his project

April 16th, 2011 by Cornflakegirl

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Today Un ángel disfrazado de fantasma has been released. It’s the first novel by Jesse Gray. A 2-year-preject that I’ve been witness of. I’m preparing the questions for his interview, if you want to ask him anything, please leave your question in the comments. Thanks.
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Anniversary

February 13th, 2011 by Cornflakegirl


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Life is ours, we live it our way.

Belfast, 13th February 2010.

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Invisible friends

February 5th, 2011 by Cornflakegirl

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Since few weeks ago, I’m working on my second novel fictional characters. Although many books about their creation suggest it as part of the authour, giving them their own voice is a slow process and in my case, it’s complex and it takes a lot of time. Or at least it is for me. How do you create fictional characters? I usually follow The 100 Most Important Things To Know About Your Character.




But what about their looking? Do you use some celebrities? friends? I usually help myself with all kinds of images such as comics, advestisement, news, movies or whatever. What is the most difficult when you’re creating a character?

For me, giving them a name. Check this website out, it’s quite interesting.
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Happy Halloween!

October 31st, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Reading by Vincent Price

Happy halloween everyone! Nevermore!
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Happy Pills by Gabriella Campbell

September 4th, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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Happy Pills
Gabriella Campbell
Editorial Alea Blanca

Gabriella Campbell is a modern woman, a bold voice and a sharp pen, stright to the point. So her first poetry book reading stings and attracts at the same time. Happy Pills was created like a record or a cassette, with two sides: A and B,

Shall we die together in this souls’ drain?

Side A, Serotonin, talks about pain, sadness and insanity. Beauty is no longer in conventional or safe places. We’re the lost generation between duty and truth. We’re told about rules but they are not useful anymore letting us rambling on empty roads listing to our inner own fears.

Don’t commit any sin with her, but with me.

Side B, the Maidens’ consent, is the feminity and sex bold images. It’s a journey accross the desire where silhouettes and empty beds’ devastations are in display. Forgotten passion’s echo are like ghosts in old polaroids. I’m afraid that Eros was devoured by Syphilis.

The poetry book by Gabriella can remind us many voices (singers, forecasters, celebrities on TV shops shows, fashion magazines, sick poets, preachers and voiceless mimes) but it wouldn’t be like hers. She is not selling or teaching anything, it’s more like she was telling us her secret in the middle of the night. If I had to describe Happy Pills, I would say that its the female answer to Bukowski’s poetry.

There is nothing else that we can do but running away from our own hand-made monsters.
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Formats III

May 22nd, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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This is the third post that I write about the new formats used to tell a story. If in the previous two posts, I talked about the blogs that become books and the books that inspired their own soundtrack; now I would like to talk about when music and image merge together to tell a story. If the musical theatre or movies are very old, I mean its shorter version: music videos. In about five minutes or even less, they introduce some characters, a plot and a surprising ending. The structure is similar to microfiction’s. These microfictions are very popular now because they are the best option for Internet. Nevertheless, both cases are not new, they started in their late sixties or early seventies.

I’ve chosen three music videos with very different music, subject and narrative form.

1. A-ha: Take on me
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The story is simple, it’s just a romantic love story with a tragic ending: two young people from two different worlds, met and fell in love. A bad guy tried to avoid their runaway together. Maybe it’s full with cliches but it’s easy, nice and when it was created, it was the best music video together with Thriller by Michael Jackson.

2. Rammstein: Du hast
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Between A-ha’s and Rammstein’s music videos, there had been many different more music videos with better tecniques and special effects. I’ve chosen this one because I like the song (quite different from A-ha’s one) and Rammstein is a band who makes very interesting videos with a story on it. They are quite polemic and transgressor. Du Hast and Engel are influenced by Quentin Tarantino and his movies Reservoir Dogs and From Dusk till dawn.

3. Nine inch nails: Pinion
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Last, this short video (just 1.23 minutes) without lyrics, almost without music shows us a sick nightmare that makes us wonder why is that man (or woman) there? How did s/he get there? Why this punishment? It’s a whole story by itself but it could a beginning or even an end of a longer story.

These three example are just a sample of what was done and is being done at the moment but there will be more and they will be different in all the possible ways. I suppose that one of the most insteresting option will be two or more art forms merged in just new, reloaded futuristic one. Always searching for the moment, the brevity and the impact in just few seconds. Where Internet is becoming vast and huge, the quality should stand up on its way.

 

When could we order art á la carte? Just focused on one consumer?
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Closer by NIN

May 16th, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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Closer by Nine Inch Nails: A provocative sick song with a video even more disturbing. I can’t take them out of my mind.

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