The Callous Exploits: Day 4.

'. . . affecting the audience is why one writes a play to begin with.
You don't write it for yourself, the actors, or the director.
You're there to do something to the audience.'
~ Lee Blessing

Mental Notes.
Demise: Thirteen Short Stories of Love and Misery DAY 4.
Thursday, 07 May 2009, 02:52 PM

Gad. It's becoming a serious source of migraine at the moment. But not that bad.

I'm in the middle of writing the first story, Dahlia, and I'm stuck with the predicament of introducing the last of the murders. I'm not sure if I will ever need to include the last kill, but I see that the aesthetic of the story lies on the completion of the plot, relying heavily on this one. Haha. Ang morbid ko lang talaga.

At the same time, I'm immersed onto reading more and more readings for points of reference. Last night, I saved web pages of good movie twists, and even *gulp* Korean drama plotlines. At the moment, I am enjoying the company of a book, Para Kay B, and in the writing process would reflect on how it would compare to the book I plan to publish.

After that, maybe Love in the Time of Cholera, Perfume, o Eleven Minutes naman. Hehe. :]

One Writer's Motivation.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo,
and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly,
I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight,
to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

~Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

Mental Notes.
03 May 2009, 04:39 PM

I have finally decided, at 18 years of age, to publish my own book. :]

It is an anthology of short stories with a common theme, with a tentative title (which, by the looks of it, may be the final title) of Demise: Thirteen Short Stories of Love and Misery. The short stories are comprised of thematic ideas ranging from frogs to falling objects, but what’s unusual with them is that they do not make up your typical love story – that is, if they are love stories at all.

The plan is that there will only be a limited number of copies to be released in Los Baños for all of them, and they will be out of print forever. Bwahaha.

The tentative date of release will be around August, as for according to the schedule of activities of this project, I will need the first three months for my drafts to be critiqued by the most distinguished writers and personalities within the campus. I have a list of prospected people in mind with me as of the moment.

Whatever the outcome is, one thing’s for sure:
It’ll be an assurance of my identity as a writer.
So help me God.
Hahaha. :]