Omayra Vélez's Blog, page 11

The Itch I Can Not Scratch

I have an itch I can not scratch. I want to, and I have tried five times already, but I am alive, so the Itch continues. This need goes with me everywhere, and it bothers every day. Some days are not as bad, and I can live a relatively healthy life. I may even forget that the itch lurks, but when I least expect it, I get pocked and I am urged to scratch. I remembered…
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Grief and Loss: Will They Ever Go Away?

I was in the middle of writing a blog for my writers’ section, but my inspiration left me. I left to do other things and when I came back to continue writing I opened Firefox and saw and article from The Guardian. The title was: Grief and Loss: Those Things Don’t Ever Go Away. It had a picture of Keanu Reeves, and his eyes made me want to cry. I could not read the article.…
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The Five Writing Mistakes I Made and Found Out About When the Second Copyeditor Worked on My Novel.

In a previous blog I wrote about the costly mistakes I made when I self-published my first book. In that article I wrote about my lack of attention to detail, poor research and my impatience. This article I will concentrate on the five things I learn while having the wrong Copyeditor and what it is to be having the copyeditor that works best with you.  In the case of the Copyeditor, their function is basically to…
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The Woman I Am​, is Hurt by the Woman I was

On this rainy day, I am supposed to be writing the next book in my series, but I am looking through twitter and I found a picture of a man and a woman kissing. The picture was just an ordinary image. It did not have any play with shadows or a special angle, but the natural position of the lovers made me think, specially the young woman. She was carefree and her expression wasn’t a…
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Under Cover of Night

Under cover of night. I lurk, watching, creeping, slowly moving from the shadow of one tree to a boulder. Crickets were making a matting sound, burning in the fire of the mating season. The sounds of the night. I must avoid the dry leaves on the ground, but they are everywhere. A crunch, crunch that is sure to come, will attract unwanted attention. A knife, is it sharp enough? It doesn’t matter.  Under cover of…
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Review: The Midnight Sea, by Kat Ross

Lately, I am getting suckered into reading books because I get enamored with the cover. And this is what happened with this book. To be completely honest I skimmed through the last half of the book. This book have a lot of potential, but it in my humble opinion it fell short. The plot was complex enough to have a full novel, and it had sufficient side plots to fill in the gaps. I liked…
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The Five Costly Mistakes I Made When I Wrote and Self-Published My First Book.

What a tragic title? Well, they were costly mistakes for me, because they have prevented my book from receiving top reviews. I must be honest and admit what is clear to me. My mistakes have made it near impossible for my series to move forward in sales and my second and third book has had no reviews and dismal sales. All in all, anyone that reads my book and knows anything about structure and flow…
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Slayer (Dragon Tamer #1) By J.A. Culican

I was so looking forward to reading this book, and I think my expectations were lofty. I love fantasy. It is my second most favorite genre to read after thrillers. With this story, the characters threw me in a loop. How in the world someone is going to be a master sword wielder in a 20-minute training session while wearing full armor? I am a Veteran, and I know what it is to move with…
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Review; Circe by Madeline Miller

No Spoilers. I just finished reading a book I’ve been eagerly wanting to read since it got published but until now I had the time to read. So, I feel disappointed. I thought Miller was going to do a version of Circe like Gregory Maguire did with Wicked. You know, make something totally new out of an age-old tale. But what I got was a showcase of god’s and human pals with a hit of…
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Errors in my writing, I want to know.

I received some criticism lately about errors in my writing. I read my reviews. I want to know what my readers have to say about my writing. And many times, I find comments like what I stated in my title. They found errors in my book or in my writing. However, the reviewer does not say what the error was. I can’t fix what I don’t know.I will let you know my writing process. The…
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