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Model Monday #09: Superheroes

First off, wikipedia has a nice superhero page with a list common traits and categories.

Supeheroes … who never wanted to be one?

We all have played superheroes when little kids … and adults lol especially after watching the bunch of superheroes movies coming out lately.

Having super powers, fighting criminals, wearing a cool/sexy outfit, falling in love with the cute boy or girl … aw!

Be it a solitary soul, a group defending civilians, a hidden society … isn’t it nice to give our character the powers we want? I love writing fiction, because we can do whatever we want with our stories ;)

Recent Superheroes movies in alphabetical order:

I simply LOVE Batman.

I love him because he has no superpowers. He has money, yes, and it grants him all his gadgets, but it’s all skills. Super hot, uh?

Captain America

Daredevil

Fantastic Four (I love a group of heroes)

Though, why Chris Evans is two superheroes, I’ll never understand.

Green Lantern

Now we want to see the Justice League, right? lol

Hellboy

Hulk

I just hate, HATE when they change actors, I don’t care the reason …

Iron Man

Man, Robert Downey Jr. is a very. very hot oldie (he is not that old, though lol)

Spiderman

Not a super fan of Tobey Maguire, but I like this pic of him

Superman

I found this photoshop of the next superman, super hot Henry Cavill

Thor

Do we need to say anything about Chris Hemsworth? Perfect! *le sigh*

Wolverine

And the awaited movie of 2012:

Love the Avengers movie poster

Trailer:

If I could choose one super power, I really not sure what I would pick. Telepathy? Teleportation? Super speed? I’ll have to think about it …

And you? Do you know what super power you would like to have? Pick just one! lol

Cheers,

Categories: #ROW80, Blogging, Me, My writing, NaNoWriMo

ROW80 Check-in Sun 11/06

My first check-in since NaNoWriMo started. (Note: I’m writing this check-in on Friday afternoon, scheduling it go live on Sunday morning).

The problem was I had a cold during the first part of the week. My head hurt so much, I couldn’t stare at the screen. So, no writing for me then.

Oh, and about my leg. After I write this (Friday afternoon), I’m going to the hospital for a MRI of my knee … so next Friday I’ll see the knee specialist. I’m taking some medicine to increase the electrical current on my nerves, so it doesn’t hurt that much anymore. And that’s it for now. I’ll keep you all updated.

On with the topic of this post:

My goals (I cut the part already accomplished):

Participate on NaNoWriMo
Revise my NaNo novel (Energy)
Read 1 book per week
Blog at least once per week (besides the #ROW80 check-ins)
Comment on #ROW80 friends’ blogs

I’m good on that.

And commenting and tweeting too ;)

Reading

I’ve read The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong and Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins. Now, I’m reading Storm Born by Richelle Mead.

I try to read cross genre and even other genres. I think it enriches the writer in me ;)

Writing

At the beginning of the week, it was hard to get any word count done, since I was out with a cold.

But then I caught up.

Total first week of NaNo: a little over 16k words. Not bad, but not what I wanted …

And how is everyone?

Who is on NaNoWriMo and is not on my writing buddies list? You can find me here.

Have a good one, guys!

Cheers,

Categories: Blogging, Entertainment, Model Monday

Model Monday #08: Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Why is it that scary things, dark things, intrigues us, enthralls us?

My opinion is problem the same of why all fantasy intrigues us: because it isn’t real and we are attracted to the unknown … we want to know more, and sometimes we even wish it was true. Not ghost-true, but magic-true ;)

I confess … I’m super chicken for horror movies. I am. And for books too. I read only a handful of horror books in all my life. And as far as movies goes, I watched The Shining, The Exorcist, The Prophecy series and that’s it lol It all happened a long time ago, when I had no sense and thought I wouldn’t be scared lol Now, I simply don’t watch it. Period.

But I also confess I would love to write a dark story. Not horror exactly, just dark, mysterious, with terrifying ghosts and malicious witches …

*images taken down for security serious*

Does Halloween inspire you?

Cheers,

Categories: Blogging, Reading, RTW

RTW: Best book of October

“Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway’s contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody’s unique take on the topic.”

This week’s topic is:

What was the best book you read in October?

I read only four fiction books this month (I’m reading a fifth) and other two on craft. Next week I’ll have a post up with all my October readings (as I do every end of month).

There was one book I had high hopes and, in the end, I was disappointed. It didn’t live to my expectations.

And there were two GREAT ones:

The first one is Touch by Jus Accardo.

Touch is Accardo’s debut novel, published this month by Entangled Publishing, a brand new publisher that is rising quickly to the top.

Great characters, great premise, great twists and conflicts. And Kale, oh Kale … and his sweet moments with Dez … *happy sigh*

The second one was Dark Lover by JR Ward. (Note: Dark Lover is not YA!!)

I was late to the party, I know, but OMG I loved it. All those alpha males in need of some wake-up slaps. I love me a tortured hero! I’ll certainly read the rest of the series … can’t wait to get to Zsadist turn lol

Did you guys read these? Did you like them?

How about you guys, what’s the best book you read in October?

Cheers,

Categories: #ROW80, Blogging, Contests, Me, My writing

ROW80 Check-in Wed 10/26

I have news …

My manuscript, Destiny Gift, the one which has 2 fulls out, was selected as one of the 5 finalists in the Show Me The Spark contest organized by the Heartland Romance Authors! Woot!

A feature of the contest is that they send you the MS back after they’ve chosen the finalists with many comments done by the judges … they give you a week to go through it and revise your work. At the end of the week (this upcoming Sunday) I have to send my MS back to them or they will use the un-revised version for the finals. And, on December 23rd, they will announce the winner ;)

So, this week, I’ll pause my writing schedule to work on my Destiny Gift manuscript until I feel it’s good enough to send it back.

Recap of goals:

Write at least 2k words from Mon to Fri, when I’m not editing (Sat and Sun are reserved for family!)
Finish the MS I’m writing (for now, I call it Attitude) (*)
Edit Attitude (*)
Outline a novel for NaNoWriMo (called Energy)
Participate on NaNoWriMo
Read 2 books every 3 weeks
Blog at least once per week (besides the #ROW80 check-ins)
Comment on #ROW80 friends’ blogs

The ones marked with a (*) are completed.

About my leg/foot/knee thing. I did the Electroneumyography test last Friday and the cyst behind my knee is the one compressing my nerves. So the foot specialist said he wants to try solving this without surgery, just by taking some specific vitamins, but he would talk with his colleague, a knee specialist and he would call me and let me know what the other doctor said.

On Monday, the foot specialist called saying that, accordingly to the knee specialist, most of cyst cases need to be dealt with surgery. So, he asked a MRI of my knee to see what exactly is going on around the cyst … then I’ll have to see the knee specialist and determine what we’ll do …

Now, I’m trying to schedule a MRI, but it seems it won’t happen before the end of next week … oh, the joys of waiting …

Anyway, I’ll let you all informed about this, but let’s move on to what really matters: my goals.

Networking

All done … this is hard NOT to meet …

Reading

Since last Wednesday, I finished Dark Lover by JR Ward and Angel’s Desire by Rosalie Lario. I also finished How To Write Page Turning Scenes by Holly Lisle and No Plot? No Problem by Chris Baty, the founder of NaNoWriMo. Note: the last 3 books are short, more like novella length.

Last night I began The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong.

Writing

Monday: Worked on the plot of Energy (needed time to process all the judges’ comments on Destiny Gift) and read craft books.

Tuesday: read on craft and worked on revising Destiny Gift (not as easy I would like it to be—the judges had very different opinions and Idk what to do with myself lol).

Wednesday: doing both … working on plot for Energy and revising Destiny Gift.

As check-in goes, I’m thinking about two possibilities: 1) I’ll skip Sunday check-ins unless I have worked during the weekend, which doesn’t happen often … so my week for ROW80 would run from Thu to Wed … or 2) I’ll do like Raelyn said she does on a previous post: I’ll skip Wednesday check-ins and schedule my Sunday check-in on Friday nights. So my week would run from Sat to Fri. Let’s see … I’ll keep you all informed.

How are my ROW80 friends doing? Wishing you all luck and accomplishments!

Here you can check the other participants. Go cheer for them too!

Have a great rest of week!

Cheers,

Categories: Blogging, Model Monday

Model Monday #07: Sports

I have a few ideas for books where sports are important for the plot and setting. So, sports inspire me, right? Right.

Even though I was a ballerina all my life, my parents and my brother have been tennis players all their lives (I played for a few years, but soon realized I liked dancing much more). Tennis was such a big thing in our daily basis that we used to have a tennis court in our house and my father hired the best trainers to come to live with us for a year or so, to train my brother. Unfortunately, for a sudden twist of life, my brother didn’t become a professional tennis player, but now, at 32, he still plays and still win tournaments.

In high school, I played handball for 2 years.

My cousin practiced equestrianism and polo.

My husband practiced judo.

All the males in my family love soccer and play as often as they can.

When I come up with a character, I always give him/her a hobby … dance, singing, playing an instrument, a sport, painting, whatever … they don’t need to be the best in it, I just can’t imagine not having a hobby since I had many while growing up. And I guess having a hobby can give depth to a character, especially if I can weave the hobby with personality, or an issue or a twist on the plot.

Right now, I’m working on a tennis player and a polo player ;)

Tell me, didn’t you ever get emotional watching movies about sports? Be it comedy, romance, drama …

Some examples:

Jerry Maguire
Driven
Invincible
A League of Their Own
Rocky
The Replacements
Wimbledon
Match Point
The Fighter
The Blind Side

Overcoming barriers, fighting inner turmoils, finding peace within, falling in love … What else could you ask for a good plot?

*happy sigh*

Eye-candy time!!

As I couldn’t go without, here as some hotties from the sports world ;)

Lleyton Hewitt, Australian – Tennis

Tom Brady, American – American Football

David Beckham, English – Soccer

Kelly Slater, American – Surfing

Cesar Cielo, Brazilian – Swimming

José Théodore, French Canadian – Ice Hockey

Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish – Soccer

Facundo Pieres, Argentine – Polo

Yummy, right?

Aren’t you inspired now? LOL

Cheers,

Categories: #ROW80, Blogging, Me, My writing

No ROW80 check-in today!

Exactly what the tittle says.

I don’t have much to report, cause Thursday was my only “writing” day after the Wed check-in.

Friday I went out and about (exams and doctor) and weekend is for family.

But I’m doing well with my goals … I blogged, I twitteted, I commented on other blogs, I read, I worked on the plot for my new MS …

Also, as I don’t work on writing during weekends, I’m debating about skipping Sundays check-ins … perhaps only do Sunday check-in when, for some odd reason, I end up writing during the weekend (which happened about 2 weeks ago).

Well, let’s see.

Have a good one guys =)

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