May 1st, 2009
Almost a year ago I wrote these for the Santiago en 100 palabras contest. Since I already posted my earlier micro-stories of two years ago, I figured that I could as well post these. Same warning as before: amateurish, and not very well translated from the original Spanish. (continue reading)
1Aug 4th, 2008
I’m a very amateurish yet enthusiastic writer. I started when I was about 14 years old; back then it had not been too long since I had discovered anime through Ranma 1/2, which aired on TV here starting from around 1998, probably, so it also became the subject of my AltaVista searches of those days of my young Internet persona. This is how I discovered fanfics, which I first thought were official, alternative stories, but, I soon realized, were actually written by fans like me. I became fascinated by them, and they provided a good part of my learning of the English language. Eventually, I too became interested in writing them, which is a shameful admission in many circles; I got to completing around five (in Spanish,) most pretty short (what some call ‘one-shots,’) and even though they were not terribly good, the standard was so low for the literary genre in Spanish that at least one of my stories became rather well-known, which means that around ten individuals read it in total. I wouldn’t dare share those, though. Later, during my latter years in high school I got into an elective subject about creative writing, which was terribly mild but did get me writing a couple of things, though nothing noteworthy; and that subject marks the extent of my literary training.
The year before last I discovered Santiago en 100 Palabras (Santiago in 100 Words,) a literary competition of micro-stories of a hundred words or less, which had actually been going for a couple of years already; I just never learned of it because it’s main form of promotion was through the Metro’s (Santiago’s subway system) ad spaces, and I only took buses back then. Last year I was actually able to participate, by submitting two stories that I wrote the very day of the deadline, which was a terrible move. This year’s competition has already started, so I intend to take this chance to send better stories. Either way, here are the two from last year, for your perusal: (continue reading)
