Did I decide to join NaNoWriMo for 2020? Check! And did I do it with the already planned Rebooster and Alina B.? Check! With the only difference that I’m no longer going to have Rebooster and Alina B. as a light novel but a regular novel with illustrations. The cover image above is an unedited version of the artwork my friend Luana Spinetti did for me a year ago for this project. I’m so happy to finally be able to work on it for a month (then I’ll resume it sometimes in 2021 after I’ll be done with an old novel that has been laying around for 23 years) and…
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NaNoWriMo 2019 Failed… and Why I Think It Wasn’t A Failure at All
I attempted NaNoWrimo in 2019, but once again, I failed. This time around there was more on my plate thank merely anxiety and a surge of workload to deal with: one of my best friend (like a sister to me) lost her father to leukemia a month earlier, and I was greatly affected too, since I knew the man and I loved him as if he was another father. The loss hit me greatly, but most of all, I couldn’t leave my friend alone to deal with such a huge trauma, so I used most of my free time to take care of her. Seriously, when a friend is like…
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Changing Berters to Gearshifts and Other Writing Updates
I haven’t been online for some time due to a massive increase in work commitments and some health issues, but I have been working on Rolamaton stories behind the scenes and planning some changes here and there, too. One of these changes will affect The Berter Family stories, that I’m renaming into The Gearshift Family. I’m changing their last name because “Berter” didn’t sit right with me: it felt more like a placeholder that had been put there waiting for a better name that would really suit an Electronian bot. Well, Gearshift is the final choice. I couldn’t get the name out of my mind and I grew fonder of…
