Saturday, July 25, 2009

Writing

It had been a while, but I just wrote a short story. I mean short, it's only three pages long. It is in Spanish and it is based on the same episode I once covered in this blog post. Like the blog post, it is composed of memory fragments that have been fleshed out and fictionalized. I have submitted the story for publication in an online newspaper in Puerto Rico, and if it gets published I will post the link here.

8 comments:

  1. Absolutely awesome! I know you have the heart and desire to be a writer. Thru good times and bad that has always been within you. Writing is a wonderful form of therapy for me, and I'm sure it is for you as well. Just the process of putting our thoughts together and creating a story lifts us above the everyday irritations of life. Will be crossing my fingers that your story gets published. Now I'm headed back to re-read the post it originates from. :-)

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  2. The new story is different in tone from this recollection, though. The same element of yearning is present, but there's more skepticism towards the ritual and less of a sense of personal failure.

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  3. That sounds good Ingrid, as certainly your failure to "fall for this" reflected no lack on your own part, but rather an absence of true spiritualy in the ritualizers themselves. :-)

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  4. I hope you get published. That would be so cool. Best of luck!

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  5. Aquí tendrás una lectora ávida de tus escritos.

    Saludos,

    I. Enid

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  6. That's wonderful! I'm looking forward to reading it and not only because of the subject. ;)

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  7. Possibly next week. I'll keep you posted.

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