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Daily entries about my thoughts and experiences. |
So you think is easy being a woman?  You're welcome into my stilletosfor a day.I no longer live with 10 family members. There's just the 4 of us. Yes! and I'm SINGLE.So I'm swimming around trying to meet someone. But I'm not in a rush so follow me around as I juggle sex , family, work..  Z.Crespo |
| For the past couple of days I've been hesitant on what could I put together for my story that I'm working on. I do know which way I want the story to go but I know this story will not be anywhere near finished even when I write the end. The thing is my adult children were telling me over and over to write a kind sketch of what my story was about, create firm character details, to write down a timeline of events etc But I am not that type of writer. The story is literally behind my eyes in my mind, I have a recording in my brain narrating this as I write. I don't do well with rigid structure. I think I do better with letting all of it flow and then go back when it's all done and tweak and change the things I feel like don't merge together. How do other writers deal with writer's block? For me is not that I don't want to write. It's that I don't have the peace and time to do so. With 2 jobs and a family to feed, it takes me so long to come back to the keyboard. Once I do make it back, it feels like I lost the momentum to carry out the my characters to the next level. This story I'm writing is a murder mystery so building and maintaining that level of anticipation, adrenaline and still be believable is key. So one thing my youngest child writer does, is research. She researches cities, civilization, history, architecture, music, pop culture and anything that can make her story as accurate as possible because she is in the Fantasy Futuristic Dystopia genre. She is writing about an almost possible future that has heavy influences in the past but she's Gen Z so she doesn't know the 70's, 80's 90's etc. I write of a period of time that I actually lived so I remember how the wind feels of the coast of New England, the smell of salt and brine, the way a jetty feels crossing over to the mainland. I know small town charm and the smell of fresh brewed coffee and baked bread in the morning. It all comes down to what genre we write in, do we pull historical fiction or futuristic fiction. |
| Today was one stormy day. We are officially in the beginning of hurricane season. I wanted to do some laundry but because I didn't want to go to the laundromat and end up getting soaked, I ended up just staying home and watching movies with my adult kids. We watched Beasts of the Southern Wild. Some of the experiences brought me back to my childhood in Puerto Rico. We lived in what was a house that was built by my paternal grandmother. It had a tin roof and when it rained I would hear the sounds of the water pattering. We also had a large yard where my sister and I would run barefoot and play pretend amongst the fruit trees. They would be Mangoes, Breadfruit, Quenepas, Coconut, Passion Fruit, Soursop, Guava, Jagua and Tamarind. My favorite thing to do was mud pies  I would have a whole set up where my sister would be my customer and I ran the café. Sometimes our little friends in the neighborhood would come to play. It was such a simple life. To run around and have no worries. In retrospect, I was aware of myself as a person in this Universe. My mom would often find me looking up at the sky and asked me what was I searching for and I would tell her God.That house was also the first place I saw a ghost or spirit. The Spirit of my Grandmother Ana. |
It's been a very long time since I wrote on here. Mainly life got in the way of my writing and I've been M.I.A. For the past 6 to 7 years as I've been focusing on raising my two daughters and trying to build a career from scratch. Not college or Uni but in the retail world. It hasn't been easy specially in the field of building materials and hardware. It's a predominantly male environment that's slowly making a space for us women and other gender besides male. I've been fortunate to have been working there for 7 yrs and climbed steadily to management. One of the special moments I was able to experience was a trip I won through my job. They sent me to Big Sky, Montana to spend time at a Ranch owned by one of the founders of the company I worked for. I had never ridden a horse before or seen wilderness so pristine. I live in South Florida and we have tropical weather all year round. The water is bath warm, and it's usually sunny. The land is flat almost 90%. Big sky is the complete opposite. Beautiful cloudless skies, cool days and cold nights but pure crisp air. My nose bled the entire time I was there due to the low humidity and altitude. I had been grounded for at least 10 yrs before I got to go on this trip. Florida is under sea level, and the elevation in Montana was playing a number on me. The highlight of my trip were visiting Yellowstone National Park and seeing geysers, bison, elk, wolves and bears. Also riding a horse during my trip named Milkshake. He was the best. Well, I wont bore you with more details. I will mention my latest work in progress. A book named San Fernando which I hope you take the time to review as I need all the advise you could provide. Thanks Anticipated Z |
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I don't have children so I really didn't know what to say to help with your four year old. 