Quick Note

The year is almost over, and the way I see it, I haven't posted here since.....February.

Right.

Now, before any of you decide to throw your shoes or tables at me, teeny tiny notice that I probably should have made around four months ago.

The reason why I haven't been posting any new articles or stories here is mainly because I haven't written any. And that is because I've been concentrating on my larger writing projects and have been, since September, a published author.

Rah rah sis boom bah.

Yes, so if you're adventurous and want to dare to read my book, you can find 'The Falcon's Eye' here:
http://amzn.to/1B9c85T

And if you want to check out my author blog, you can find it right over here:
http://amzn.to/1B9c85T

So, now that that's out there, I have two giant WIPs and around three smaller ones, one of which needs a beta. Gottagobye!

*ducks under flying table*

Infinity in a Speck of Dust

Sometimes, I wonder what writing does to us.

Last night, I was doing my daily two to three hours of editing my manuscript while helping my brother out on a writing project of his own. He was writing a script as an audition for a theater club in college and I was talking to him about the power of dialogue, revealing and not revealing facts about characters, empathizing with fictional people, giving emotional payoff to the audience, yadda yadda yadda. At one point, I asked myself: when the hell did I learn all this?

'Cause there I was telling him to empathize with his characters, understand them - not just know them - and become them. Literally put yourself in their shoes and just write what they do and I realized just how many times I do that in a day.

I participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time in November and it gave me a habit of discipline to properly sit and write for at least three hours everyday and immerse myself in every character I write, and I do. I love it, more than anything. And I find myself becoming these strange people, who are so similar and yet so different from me.

If anyone reading this is a writer too, you probably know what I'm talking about. And you're probably wondering why I'm talking about stuff that we all know about. But hey, it felt like it needed saying. There I was, realizing that I was breaking myself into a hundred different people and piecing myself back together every single day. It's a weird sort of revelation and probably a lot smaller than it seems to me right now, but it was still a bit of an epiphany.

So, I do wonder sometimes what writing does to us. I feel that it expands us, makes us so much more than the singular creatures that we are. We are the worlds we make and the characters we create, and every time we step into a fictional person's shoes, we become someone new before returning to who we are. It feels like opening up a walnut and finding a galaxy inside.

'Cause in the end, we're all infinite.

It's Been a While

A long while. November came and went with pomp and glory. December flew past in a blaze. The new year burst out like a phoenix from the ashes and rang out with optimism and promise, and now January is over.

It really has been a while, but I'm still alive.

NaNoWriMo was a blast. It's something that I would definitely recommend to anyone who wants to write, whether you're a fledgling dreamer or a full-fledged author with titles and accolades to your name. You get to meet and interact with hundreds of writers from all over the world, you have a goal set for you to work towards, and best of all, this event gives you discipline.

Previously, I would procrastinate and put off my writing, blaming it on the usual 'writer's block'. Thing is, in NaNoWriMo, if you want to finish the challenge, you can't use writer's block as an excuse for too long or else, you'll run out of time. Everyday, come what may, you sit and write. Whether it bee 500 words, or 1000, or 2000, or even more, you write. And that habit stayed with me even after November got over.

And I won the challenge, in case you were wondering. I took a break from my light-hearted or bittersweet short stories and my epic fantasy manuscript, and wrote a short sci-fi novel. I've uploaded it on Wattpad. If you'd like to read it there, here's the link below:


http://www.wattpad.com/story/10231273-ascension

If you're not that fond of reading on Wattpad, I'll start putting it up here.

And another little piece of news, 'The Hatter's Wife' was published in an online magazine called HelterSkelter. You can check it out at:

http://helterskelter.in/2014/01/the-hatters-wife/

So it's been a busy four months. Along with that, I've got a manuscript in the editing pot, which is coming along beautifully and hopefully, should be off the fire and ready to read before May. Somewhere in between, I have to adjust my schedule for Game of Thrones Season 4. No way in HELL am I missing that.

So busy busy.

Again, sorry for not being here for so long, but I'm alive, I'm kicking, and I'm still reading and writing, so stay tuned for stuff.