I haven't posted more of the draft in a while, so here you go: The Harvest. (Also, it's a bit of a celebration post!) When I wrote the last six pages, I was bickering with my husband and typing very angrily (yeah, who writes and fights at the same time, right?), but I outlined the scene more or less how I had pictured it in my head, over a number of weeks. The novel picks up on the similar plot line to the two previous versions of this novel, centering on a female doctor who is defying the system. However, her point of view is not the main one, and she is not a main character anymore, but an important side character that will help Alan along his revolutionary path, maybe even more so than the revolutionaries he has already encountered. On a celebratory note, I realized I crossed 100 pages of the novel! Yay! I am not sure how long it will be, but at the rate it's going, it will cross 300 pages. Well, I'm off to write more. If my baby, my daughter, doesn't wake up, I will post it before I crash (as it is 3a.m.) or get distracted by my kids. Do what you love today. That's what I'm doing instead of dieting. Ha ha ha. #Resist
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I know it's been a while, since I blogged. The Union and teaching has kept me really busy, but I actually have not been slacking off in terms of my writing. I am back on a regular writing schedule and working on my novel The Harvest. Plus, I found an editor for my longer fiction pieces, which is a huge step forward in my writing path.
I also have a new editor for my novella La Bruja del Barrio Loco; that awesome friend is Eric Allen Yankee. He is giving me a "friend discount" for editing my work, like my other friend Adam Gottlieb who is editing my short story collection Down South where the Water Is Warm. So, I invited Yankee to come talk to my creative writing class about digital versus print publications. You can see the talk here: https://www.facebook.com/eric.yankee.90/videos/10213283231220953/ It was a phenomenal talk, seriously. I hope to bring him back again, so we can do a step-by-step process as many of my students should publish their work. I learned great information about Amazon and pricing online books. He had great suggestions I plan on taking. One was to separate the short story collection into two parts. In the digital revolution, volume and frequency of publications are the way to go. He also suggested that I publish a novella every six weeks. I am up for that challenge since I plan to serialize La Bruja del Barrio Loco stories and already have the second one in the works. I was also considering putting La Bruja del Barrio Loco in my collection of short stories, but that would defeat the purpose of serializing the novellas. I am so stoked because I learned novellas are in! What?! I suppose that's just a sigh that people are really busy in this modern age. But that's good for me because I can crank out novellas and tend to write long short stories anyway. Well, keep on doing what you love and be a kind human being! #Resist |
Jesú Estrada
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