Rapiers No More
Posted on August 28,2009.I guess I have to drop Paulo Coelho’s books, I said to myself after meeting this writer who helped me with La Dolce Vita and had the intentions to help me with Rapiers, which now officially has a new name and I don’t want to blog about it as of the moment.
Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist was one of the first few titles I finished reading. I believe there is nothing wrong with neither his style nor his storytelling. It’s just his books are not the type I plan to make. And if I do want to better myself, I have to start reading books which is almost of the same genre as the one I plan to make. The “writer” gave his nod on Haruki Murakami. The advance narration he complimented about La Dolce Vita, I got from Murakami’s Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
In a way, I’m glad I've finally found the right set of people to help me to improve myself as a writer. It’s like a struggling musician who finally founds a record producer from a reputable company and they’re on their way of making a best seller.
The goal is to make the reader understand the story, he told me. I sometimes forget it. He said you have the story at the back of your head but sometimes when you write it down you left the reader behind. You have to guide him through it.
In the local fantasy literature “industry,” I have two people who directly help me as of the moment. I know there are others who are still on a wait-and-see-mode about me. I don’t know. They might think I’m still “hilaw.” Kailangan na yata akong i-kalburo. LOL.
After finishing La Dolce Vita, I’m back yanking on Rapiers: Twin Fangs. Tremendous changes are being done as of the moment. I’m glad I have the so-called fresh pair of eyes again. I used to be “sukang-suka” with Rapiers, I couldn’t even look at it. Now I’m working on it as if I’m writing it for the first time. It’s good you did something else before you returned to Rapiers, he said. That’s what writers do when they get fed up with a project so that they can return and finish the ones they left behind.
Whenever I’m in front of my computer, I always get lazy to start working. Then I say to myself, the cards have been laid. There’s no turning back. In the words of Ruffa Mae Quinto, one of my favorite local comedians, “Todo na to!” And I’ve always said to myself, the process is not going to be magical and it’s going to be difficult, but I can do it.
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