The Callous Exploits: Day 24.

"Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death.
If it did, no good person would ever die."
~ The Blue Man, Mitch Albom's
The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mental Notes.
Demise: Thirteen Short Stories of Love and Misery DAY 24.
Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 03:14 PM

I slept at around four this morning. Waking up with barely about five hours of sleep, I feel superb and very much motivated. My muse is back! But now, to delve away from Dahlia from now, I am writing the opening scenes for Frogs.

I felt at ease writing Frogs this morning. The juxtaposition of the scenes were very fluid in my mind that I practically saw through the whole moment. Moreover, reading Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven helped me explore the better possibility of developing my characters in the sanest way possible. Very neat, I must say.

And with a new cover art, I feel better. Haha!

One of the main predicaments I'm faced with at present is finding a suitable publisher for the book. All I plan for is to have the copies published, and I don't care whichever publishing house takes it in; I don't care about labels at the moment. :]

I'll be rummaging through publishing houses at Recto with my friend from UST this Saturday. That'll be a good start. :]


I'm a third through with The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It's a sumptuous reading experience. I heartily approve. :D

The Callous Exploits: Day 23.

"Can I? Yeah. You bet I can.
There's a million things in this world I can't do.
Couldn't hit a curveball, even back in high school.
Can't fix a leaky faucet. Can't roller skate or make a
F-chord on the guitar that sounds like anything but shit.
I have tried twice to be married and couldn't do it either time.
But if you want me to take you away, to scare you
or involve you or make you cry or grin, yeah. I can.
I can bring it to you and keep bringing it
until you holler uncle. I am able. I can."
~ Paul Sheldon, Stephen King's Misery, Part 2, chapter 4.

Mental Notes.
Demise: Thirteen Short Stories of Love and Misery DAY 23.
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 06:21 PM


No progress. T_T

I am pledging to finish Dahlia tonight. I'll be taking it or leaving it. But I guess either way, I'll have to take it. I don't have a choice. :/

Meanwhile, I have come up with a preview of a tentative cover art for the book. This is just pretty much the idea of the cover, and this isn't the final version of it. I just got random pictures online and pasted them. :/

So here it is. :]

Basically, the idea is of a black-and-white image of a hand reaching to a typewriter. I'll have to expand on that.


Ciao! :]

The Callous Exploits: Day 14.

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world;
there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more.
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able
to experience supreme happiness.
We must have felt what it is to die,
that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”
~ Alexandre Dumas, French novelist/playwright, 1802-1870

Mental Notes.
Demise: Thirteen Short Stories of Love and Misery DAY 14.
Thursday, 17 May 2009, 01:53 AM

The more I linger with the thoughts of materializing the stories,
the more I anticipate and visualize - and the feeling merely sends my muse back.

Salamat na rin sa mga kaibigan ko sa Kwarto Singko sa Filipina Apartment (sina Ynik, Mel, Vladz, Gemme, Jethro, Bam, Cha, Luis at iba pa) sa pagtulong sa aking panumbalikin ang muse ko sa pagsusulat.

Kahapon ay nagkuwento ako kila Gemme ng ilan sa mga kuwento ng Demise, particularly Dahlia (na parang nakuwento ko na sa iba't ibang tao for the millionth time), Red Things at ang pinakapaborito kong Checkmate. Sensible ang naging paguusap namin, given na sila as an audience were very critical in assessing the stories, basing them on comparative psychological degrees (lalong lalo na sa usapan naming malaman sa Checkmate).

Apat ang kuwento sa loob ng Checkmate; pero dahil na rin sa kagustuhan ni Gemme ay magkakaroon ng panlima - ang The Knight. Pero kaming dalawa lang ang magkakaroon ng kopya ng 'nawawalang kabanata' na iyon. Hehehehehehe. :]

Kababasa ko pa lang ng dalawang maikling kuwento ni Stephen King mula sa Nightmares and Dreamscapes: ang The End of the Whole Mess at Suffer the Little Children. Kailangan na rin ito bilang analysis sa effective storywriting.

Barilin ba raw ang isang bata dahil nagmumukha na siyang alien? T_T


I have to admit, magaling talaga si idol,
kahit saang anggulo tingnan. :D