The Amazing Writing High!

2/21/2017

I am thinking of buying this stock photo for the cover, but am not sure the financial investment is worth it. Plus, the fine print on reproduction needs to be studied further.

You know what I'm talking about. Even if you produce garbage, and you don't know it, you get that amazing high from doing what you love. I'm still feeling it, even though I stopped writing around 9a.m.

I am also happy my new writing schedule is working out well. Today, I was pecking away at this story for my little sister. It wasn't quite the premise she wanted, but her story is still brewing somewhere in the deep seat of my subconscious. It's cooking.

So here are a few more pages: "La Bruja del Barrio Loco". I have to remember talk into the phone or type them quickly because I get these random great ideas, and then forget to write them. The little notebook never really worked for me, but sending myself little voice notes helps.

This weekend I also went on Amazon to support folks who are publishing digitally, and I bought two kindle works, one a 100 word anthology ($2.99) and a smutty short story ($2.99). The latter was written by a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. I was surprised both works went for $2.99 and wondered how they came to setting the price. I am going above and beyond the call and review their works and link the reviews to my blog. Not surprising, there were no reviews to the smut short story. Guess folks don't want to admit they read that genre.

Believe in good karma and keep writing!

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Dr. Jesú Estrada,
Chicago, IL

I grew up on the outskirts of Yuma, AZ, close to the Cocopah reservation. Because I was ever-bored, I became an avid reader of Spanish comic books and anything in English. Then I moved onto Steinbeck and Stephen King and now read international authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Atwood, and Marouf. I also read a lot of coming of age fiction.

I have been writing stories in both Spanish and English since I was six years old. My fiction and poetry focus on working class issues, primarily about laborers in the Southwest. I also write non-serious fiction, like zombie fiction (I was into it before it got popular with the Walking Dead series, which I love) and dabble in magical realism with a fusion of cuentos and folklore.

I have a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Washington State University, a Masters Degree in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors of Arts from Northern Arizona University. I have also taught creative writing, and will do so, spring 2017. Currently, I live in Chicago and teach full-time at Harold Washington College to an amazing student population.

More about me. I am happily married, been so for over eight years, and have a fabulous seven-year-old who makes my life phenomenal: He too is starting to write short stories. I recently had a second baby, Simona, which put a temporary set-back on the publication of my first book, but made my life infinitely more wonderful. My husband is also incredibly supportive, and I have enlisted him to market whatever I do that is worth marketing.

That damned itch just won't let me be, so I'm back to my original love of words.