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18 Friday Oct 2013

Posted by Ermilia in Ermisenda

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Do you outline your stories before you start? Or do you write and let your characters guide you? I tend to fall somewhere in between. With Blind Sight, it is obvious that we must outline, since we are two authors working on two books that are meant to overlap. We need to be deliberate with our choices and events. We can’t just go both our own ways and hope they somehow work.

In my personal projects, I write a little and then outline, write a little and then outline. Once I hit about half way, the rest of the story is usually lined out for the basic events. I normally just note it down in the same word doc that I’m working off. For Blind Sight, we have a Google document we share like an excel spreadsheet.

I found a really cool article showing lots of different handwritten outlines of authors. I kind of wish Eliabeth and I had written out Blind Sight outlines because there’s something romantic about pen and paper outlines. What do you think?

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Picture it & Write Special

03 Sunday Mar 2013

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth, Ermisenda, Picture it & Write!

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Today is the anniversary of our first novel, Blind Sight, becoming a publication, so once again, all of the Picture it & Write prompts in March are going to be a little different than usual. This week, we wanted to highlight the writing style we use throughout the series. As some of you may know, each volume is written split into two books, written so you see two sides of a story told through a different character’s point of view.

So without further ado…

We urge people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow our story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (please provide a translation). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.

Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.

hand at a computer

“Happy Birthday, Baby. I had a great time last night at the steakhouse. I can’t believe they made you wear a cowboy hat and yell ‘yee haw.’ That’s an image that I’ll never get out of my head. Let’s go to the same place for my birthday.”

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“Wow Mark. You were amazing last night. Forget my complaint about you not wanting to spend time with my friends. You more than made up for it, ;)”

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Katherine repeated this process three more times, earning more in an hour at the computer than some people did in a week. She looked nothing like the models she used to post on Facebook. Before taking this job, she would never have thought men would pay to have a woman post “steamy” status updates on their pages, but this generation was quickly becoming socially retarded, if it wasn’t a lost cause already.

– Eliabeth Hawthorne

“When are we going to get to meet her, Mark?”

“Did you do it all night long?”

The second voice parroted one of the group’s favorite movie quotes.

“Shut up,” Mark snapped, defensive. This girl was special. She wasn’t just to keep his bed warm…not that they had even met yet. He had paid for a Facebook girlfriend; he couldn’t help how they met, he knew this wasn’t just work for her. The things she said…she clearly liked him as much as he liked her.

Whenever they conversed, she was so down to earth and real. He’d stared at her Facebook profile photo for hours. She was beautiful, he would caress her face with his cursor for minutes on end.  A model. She was everything he needed a girlfriend to be. A fire had been sparked inside his heart. Maybe she was the one?

– Ermisenda Alvarez

Learn more about Blind Sight or purchase the books. Right now each volume is just 99 cents!

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