I don't usually go to events on my own because I know I'll be a loner and then after some roaming, I'll go home right away. But on my first ever Manila International Book Fair experience, what I think would happen disappear into thin air. I just didn't attend the event as a reader / bibliophile / book lover, but as an author as well. Wow. The feeling is wow!
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Travel Bug
Whenever a month starts, I always think, "Where should I go next?" like I always have the time and money to get on that bus and go on an adventure. It is easy to say that, like for example, I want to go in Baguio in the third week or on the last week, I want to go in Tarlac. Easy. But when I think of the resources I need for the trips I'm planning (ehem... money, mostly) I feel like sighing. But I always tell myself that if there's a will, there's a way, and I always find my way. Well, considering that I'm going to attend two book signings this September (Colleen Hoover and Kiera Cass!) and a yearly event (MIBF!!!), I have to lessen my spending this month. So, my next plan has to start for my October trip. Although I'm still thinking if I should go out of town next month. Or that I should just go museum hopping or something just around the metro. I still don't know. But one thing is for sure, I have to explore or my travel bug will bug me forever! (LOL)
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
#SparkNA Experience
SparkNA is my second writing class and this time, it's all about New Adult Fiction. This is almost the same as BuqoYA. The instructions were also given through e-mails and there were (optional) face-to-face classes, which I still hadn't got a chance to attend to.
Was I challenged?
I was challenged but for me, buqoYA was still more challenging than this. Why did I say that? In this class, we didn't have any tropes. The only thing we had to do and make sure we noted, our protagonist should be brave. Yep, that's right. She or he has to be brave. We were taught to make an outline, which I do whenever I write. But the thing about this class was that, there were questions asked in every act. And that was a first for me. Because I do outlines but I don't divide it into different acts in which I have to resolve an issue. There were the story elements and the heat levels. Since this class was New Adult, a little bit or something steamy (or more of it) was okay.
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