Good evening folks! How is everyone doing? Tonight I would like to start a new blogging series called "Lessons to Practice." In each Tuesday night post of this series, I will summarize what I'm learning as I spend 2017 editing, rewriting, and refining my works. Each "Lessons to Practice" installment will also include a brief summary of … Continue reading Lessons to Practice #1: Writing Consistently and with Purpose
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Elevator Pitch: Eyes of Excruciation
Thank you to abooknation for your like on my first elevator pitch for In the Words of Your Love! Your support helps me to keep on writing. This second elevator pitch is for the first novella that I ever wrote, which was during my senior year in high school. Eyes of Excruciation is a seven-act … Continue reading Elevator Pitch: Eyes of Excruciation
Elevator Pitch: In the Words of Your Love
Greetings! This October, I would like to focus on my fiction by posting elevator pitches for all of my works. That includes my novels, short stories, and novellas. I will post a new elevator pitch every Tuesday and Friday night. I'll begin in chronological order with In the Words of Your Love, my first full-length YA fiction novel. … Continue reading Elevator Pitch: In the Words of Your Love
Eyes of Excruciation – Final Act
Brave Again Final Act Eternity in Him It’s 9:37 when I find the big red house on the edge of four mile and Bentsen – and with no ice. The party is so alive. Cars and trucks line the streets and the front driveway, a long half-circle curving through a long and prosperously green front … Continue reading Eyes of Excruciation – Final Act
Eyes of Excruciation – Act 6
My sincerest thank you to all who read and liked Act 5! Only two more acts to go! Act 6 High The crackled and distorted voices are like a middle-of-the-night phone call in some horror movie. When the hoots and loud music fade a little, John Hinojosa answers. “Yeah, hell-o?” I don’t think I’ll … Continue reading Eyes of Excruciation – Act 6
Eyes of Excruciation – Act 5
Hello followers! I apologize for missing my regularly scheduled installments for the past two Saturdays. I was at a family reunion last Saturday, which of course was worthy of writing about in my journal! I was also pretty caught up in completing my client case conceptualization for my internship site this past weekend, which I just finished this morning. … Continue reading Eyes of Excruciation – Act 5
Eyes of Excruciation – Act 4
Act 4: Wander “You let her read it yet?” I look up from the sidewalk, watching as Hector shakes his head to answer Octavio. Read what? That’s what I think, but only an idiot new guy would ask. Instead I walk a little faster so that I’m beside Felipe. Octavio laughs dryly and chews … Continue reading Eyes of Excruciation – Act 4
Eyes of Excruciation – Act 3
Act 3 Outreach It’s raining on Wednesday, and I try to enjoy it a little. Mom has this syndrome or whatever where cloudy skies and rain almost always depress her. I hate to see that in her. But it’s like a whole ‘nother world for me. Jogging through the drizzle now, heading to Government … Continue reading Eyes of Excruciation – Act 3
Eyes of Excruciation – Act 2
I have returned with more of Eyes of Excruciation! I know I let this one go; waiting over a year to post my next Act was definitely not intentional. Still, I hope that this story sparks something special in even just one reader. For those of us who love or have loved in secrecy out of fear. … Continue reading Eyes of Excruciation – Act 2
Eyes of Excruciation – Act 1
Dear reader: As I revive my blog and resume regular postings, I thought it would be fitting to start publishing some of my older YA short stories, poems, and musings. I am really proud of Eyes of Excruciation, a novella that I wrote during a difficult time in high school. I grappled with thoughts of … Continue reading Eyes of Excruciation – Act 1
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