Wattpad Story Comment: "Paper Planes Back Home" by taratriestowrite

Title: Paper Planes Back Home

Writer’s Username: taratriestowrite

Description:

When Gianna wakes up on a cloud, she is disoriented yet fascinated. She thinks she’s only dreaming until she gets a storm of paper planes. “They’re thoughts of people who remember,” a man on another cloud tells her—each pleading her not to leave. The man tells her these planes are the key to get out of there, and while she thinks it’s hard to believe, she decides everything is worth trying if it meant finding her way back home.

The Sunday Currently # 11

Okay. Yes, I know. I missed another Sunday that I was supposed to post something like this. I got busy with other stuffs, that’s why I forgot writing something like this. But thankfully, I got another chance to write another volume of this blog post. I haven’t been posting my Saturday Night Thoughts blog post for how many Saturdays now. So I don’t want to miss another Sunday Currently blog post.

Well, at least I can say that the past two weeks had been pretty okay to me. And yes, I finally got the feedback for my manuscript that had been under evaluation for almost a month and a half. I got a revision. At least, it’s close to being approved, right? I just need to revise it using the pointers they gave me. Hopefully, when I’m done and I submitted it again, it won’t be returned to me.

It’s a cold February here in Baguio, I must say. But that doesn’t actually stop me from writing more stories as soon as I’m done with one. And I started joining blog tours. Well, I just joined one for now. But I participated in Ms. April’s little project called #FilipinoFriday that aims to support English novels authored by Filipino writers. And I like it, to be honest. I already posted two of the book reviews for #FilipinoFriday and I hope if you have time, you can read it. Who knows? Maybe it’ll spark your interest and will make you purchase those books one day.

So this Sunday, I’m currently:

Eight Celestial Points

Okay… So for now, I’m still typing down the second scene of TLSOTE’s Hunt 38. At this point, though, nag-report na si Tetsuya kay Mamoru tungkol sa mga natuklasan niya sa bayan ng Casimera. As I’ve previously mentioned in the other TLSOTE chapters, isa ang Casimera–particularly ang templo roon–sa kabilang sa Eight Celestial Points ng Yasunaga clan sa Pilipinas. But in the story, the exact names and locations of each point weren’t explicitly mentioned. In fact, medyo vague pa ang pagkaka-describe sa mga ito.

Lahat ng descriptions ng Eight Celestial Points, nakaukit sa templo sa Casimera na pinasabog nga lang ng Dark Rose. At dahil pinasabog ang templo, nasira rin ang pinag-ukitan ng mga descriptions na iyon. That is, until Akira found a way to combine the broken codes and descriptions together again.

EIGHT CELESTIAL POINTS and its descriptions:

1. Aeraven Lake - The moonlit mere guarding the will of the four roses.
2. Argatha Forest - A shrouded woodlands guarding the sword of time.
3. Eirene Tower - The sun-colored stronghold guarding the symbol of the dragon.
4. Lorlea Valley - The valley of the golden sunrise guarding the secrets of the sky.
5. Mt. Cleantha - A majestic summit guarding the stone of memories.
6. Quivira Lighthouse - A guiding light guarding the spirit of the white ocean.
7. Shiasena Temple - A sacred temple guarding the passages of hidden history.
8. Town of Casimera - The ethereal haven of the roses guarding the proofs of the last king.

Honestly speaking, ito ang napapala ng walang maisip gawin kapag hindi makapagsulat.

Book Review For #FilipinoFriday: "Cover (Story) Girl" by Chris Mariano

Title: Cover (Story) Girl

Author: Chris Mariano

Description: 

1) She has amnesia. 
2) She’s on the run from her father’s creditors. 
3) She’s enjoying her last days on earth. 

Ever since Jang Min Hee walked into Gio’s small museum, she’s given him one excuse after another about why she’s vacationing at scenic Boracay Island. Rarely has Gio’s neat and organized world been shaken like this. Soon he finds himself scrambling over rocks, hiding in dressing rooms, and dragging her out of bars. But how can Gio tell what's true from what isn't? Their worlds are getting unraveled -- one story at a time.

You can purchase the book using these links:

Amazon | Buqo

Prints (Visprint edition)

Available at National Bookstore, Powerbooks, and Fully Booked branches

You can also add this book to Goodreads.

Ratings: 4 stars out of 5

Book Review For #FilipinoFriday: “Forget Me Not” by Addie Lynn Co

Title: Forget Me Not

Author: Addie Lynn Co

Description:

Rianne has lost her memories of the past two years due to an accident, but letters from a mysterious “Sparks”—found in a pile of unread mail at home—have been helping her cope. The letters tell her of a couple’s love story, making her hope to find the same unconditional love someday.

Rebuilding her life has been a mess though: her guy best friend is claiming to have been her boyfriend that time, but she seems more at ease with a mysterious stranger. Does she trust the past she can’t remember, or take a chance with a more uncertain future?

Can your heart also forget what your mind could not remember?

You can purchase the book using these links:

Amazon | Google Play | Buqo | Smashwords

You can also add this book to Goodreads.

This Has Truly Bothers Me...

“You’re such a worthless woman!”

“You’re just a woman who doesn’t know anything!”

These are the two sentences that bothered my mind for quite some time now. It’s making me crazy, I must say that. It really degrades me even though these are the words that one of my characters would say to the person he hates. Now I couldn’t help thinking. Am I really like this? Am I really someone who doesn’t know anything?

I’m naive, yes. Even at my current age of 24, I’m still someone who practically “lives under the rock”. Or as I’d like to call myself–a hermit. I’m quite contented being confined in my own world inside my head. I guess that’s one reason I never got to grow. I’m always scared of facing the world on my own.

For now, I’m truly clueless as to what I need to do. Even when people tell me what should I do, it seems that I can’t find myself having the guts and the drive to actually go through it.

Seriously speaking, I hate it. Only because it just proved, in some ways, that those words mentioned above were all true…

The Sunday Currently # 10

Okay, so I missed another Saturday Night Thoughts blog post (that was supposed to be posted yesterday). But that doesn’t mean I’m going to forget writing this one. Not much had happened over the week, if that’s what you’re going to ask me. I’m still waiting… and waiting… and waiting for something to happen. And it did.

At least on the part about my very first approved manuscript last October 2014. It would be released soon. In fact, www.ebookware.ph already posted it as part of its advance release in e-book format. And… I finally have a penname—an official one under My Special Valentine. So many feels about that, to be honest.

As for the other one I’ve been waiting for (okay, make that two), na-dah! So I really need to stretch my patience on those two if I want to acquire the result, whether positive or negative.

So this Sunday, I’m currently: