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6 years in Dublin

you — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:00:46 +0000

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

2012 Resolutions

Cornflakegirl — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:36:29 +0000

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.

Closed for holidays

Cornflakegirl — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:20:29 +0000

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

What I’ve learned from Nanowrimo

Cornflakegirl — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:01:58 +0000

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!

NaNoWriMo: 2nd week

Cornflakegirl — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:51:50 +0000

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?

NaNoWriMo: 5th day

you — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:27:47 +0000

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!

Halloween

Cornflakegirl — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:57:41 +0000

Happy Halloween 2011

NaNoWriMo

Cornflakegirl — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:10:20 +0000

I’ve just enrolled to NaNoWriMo and if you know what it is about, it’s a challenge to write 50K word novel in 30 days during November. Now during this month, I’m working on the plot and characters. Any suggestion? I’ve found this link and it looks pretty interesting.

Are you going to take part? If so, please add me in the NaNoWriMo website.

Heroes, idols and so on…

Cornflakegirl — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:52:29 +0000

Everybody has a favourite actor, singer or artist. A person who inspire us or makes us feel admiration. I guess this is different from one person to another but for me, I do value the honesty. I mean when an artist share with us how s/he is showing us his/her weakness and strengths. When s/he dares to confess what mistakes s/he has committed or what kills them inside.

They use their art to show what they’re feeling, their own fears and happiness making us to be part of it. It’s like the old times heroes need to be seen vulnerable to be understood and respected.

In my case, one of this idols is Tori Amos and I leave this interview with you where she talks about her miscarriadges and how there is a light at the end of the tunnel. However, I would like to mention a band named Blue October that I’ve found out recently and with interviews like this one makes me respect and admire them. I hope you like them.

And what about you? What makes you admire an artist?

New York, New York

Cornflakegirl — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:16:29 +0000

Our trip last stop was New York. It’s a stunning city that makes you feel like you already know it; we didn’t have time to go out from Manhattan though. I hope to be back and with a better weather!

Ground Zero with Liberty statue on the background

She, the Liberty Statue

Central Park