[13.08.09] Murder on the Loose.

‘If there is no hope for you to change, Miss Garcia,’ the dean said,
‘you might as well drop from school and go home.’

‘And you can go to hell,’ Dahlia murmured.
Lynch turned. ‘What did you say?’

Their eyes met, eyes of contempt, eyes of disdain.
‘You watch your tongue, Miss Garcia, or I’ll slice that in half myself.’
~ Dahlia, Demise: Thirteen Short Stories of Love and Misery

Mental Notes.
Demise: Thirteen Short Stories of Love and Misery DAY 102.
Thursday, August 13, 2009, 2:00 PM

For the whole duration of the story making process for Demise, I can as well say I have never been this productive. I guess that's a good thing. Haha.

The book is finally slated for a late August/early September release, and as of this time, progress is pretty much high. There is a new book cover (courtesy of the book's official illustrator, Chino Carlo Aricaya), and more publicity materials slated on the next few days. As of this moment, I am passing drafts of Midnight (to Sir Dennis Aguinaldo, who was very accommodating, thankfully) and Dahlia (to a professor I am yet to decide who) for critiquing. For the fund raising stints, however, with the help of some of my friends, the team managed to collect sponsorships from various establishments around the UPLB vicinity, as well as some solicitations from our alumni from ComArtSoc.

Whew. That's one hell of a week.

What I realized this week on the writing process is that it's really hard to proofread your own work, and make it concise. I read from an online writing guide that you, as an author, must never reduce your work to appropriate pieces, for it cuts your flow of imagination for the piece. It's more of a self-inhibition, which is why most professional authors hire editors for their works.

I will be more active on this blog on the next few days.
And I hope for one thing, though: that this FINALLY push through.

Love abandons reason.
Yea! XD