I have not kept up with things. I pulled out a story I was writing back in July of 2005 titled The Code of Abubasi, I had developed the whole story, the characters, and written the first chapter. Earlier this week I started writing the second and as of uesterday an into the sixth with about 6,000 words done.
Today I played author at the Carrollwood Day School teaching the children what it is to be an author and careers available in the publishing field.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Friday, February 9, 2007
DRAFTING AND POLISHING
No school today. It’s student’s day at the fair. I stayed home all day and perfected the first chapter of “Eric” and the first Chapter of Girls: M-I-P’s of the Universe. I programmed them in place on my website, www.EugeneOrlando.com.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
A-DRAFTING I WILL GO
Yesterday, I finished up the last five chapters of Eric Prinzul, Earth Princess to second-draft status, and today I've started my third draft getting into chapter 4. Last evening I found a great picture of a blonde-haired girl holding flowers in my copyright-free clip art collection. I clipped all her long strands off, and now she looks just like a boy wearing a skirt and top.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
CLEAN UP TIME
This morning I continued working a second draft. I did more in school, but so far I'm only into chapter 22 with six more chapters to go after that.
Monday, February 5, 2007
THE END OF THE END
Finished it. And I got a title I can live with. The book is 33,600 words long. I did two chapters this morning (been up since 3 AM) and the rest at work (It was a very slow teaching day at my school ... thank goodness).
I started off this morning writing chapters 23 and 24. Then I decided I had to do something about the title. It has been bothering me since I first titled it. In the story, Mr. Aleen, the alien, whose name I changed this evening to Mr. Etee, previously called all girls “Earth Princesses”. So, I decided to play on that and came up with Eric Dasher, Princess of Planet Earth. That seemed too long, so I changed it to Eric Dasher, Earth Princess. I liked it and went on with my day.
This evening, sitting in Sweet Tomatoes Restaurant waiting for my handicapped daughter to get off work so I could drive her to her apartment, I decided that the two halves of the new title should be more similar. As it stood, it was ED, EP, and I thought it should be EP, EP … and more poetic. So, now I had to change Eric’s last name. I decided his last name should start like the word “Princess”. Since I’m studying the Romanian language for my return trip to that country to get my sequel for To Be a Gypsy, the Romanian word prinzul popped in my mind. That sounded like a good last name, so the book will be called, Eric Prinzul, Earth Princess. And, oh, by the way. Prinzul means ‘lunch’ … no connection since the alien isn’t here to eat anyone.
In Chapter 23, Eric’s mother drives her to the movies. She kids Erica about her date until Erica can’t stand it. Then Jared and Erica go inside. While Jared buys popcorn and a drink, Erica uses the girls’ room. Chazity, from Erica’s old school, the girl he pestered to get into trouble with the alien substitute, recognizes her and tells the other girls in the restroom that Erica’s a boy in disguise. They force Erica out and she tries to get Jared in the movie before Chazity comes out, but when she sees Chaz and her sister coming toward the same movie, she bends Jared over and gives him a long kiss trying to hide herself. Too late! Chaz lets the cat out of the bag, and Jared runs out of the movie theater. Mission failed … again.
In Chapter 24, Mr. Etee returns to Erica’s room at night, but he is not angry. He understands that it was Chaztity (a slight name change here … just for the spelling … Chazity is the name of a real high school student I know) who came on the scene and broke up the date. He tries to calm Erica down, tucks her in, and tells her he will be making a big change in her life for the next day. (No, he’s not changing her back to a boy.)
In Chapter 25, Mrs. Prinzul comes in and finds Erica sitting at her vanity table. She asks to help her daughter, and finds her very cooperative. A bit shocked, Mrs. Prinzul, selects the choices of clothes Erica would have made yesterday. Erica turns them down and selects the clothes her mother selected the day before … clothes she had turned down. Accepting her mother’s offer to help her with makeup, unlike the day before, Mrs. Prinzul leaves. Her brother barges in, as before, but Erica’s attitude is filled with love for her brother, not like the day before.
In Chapter 26, Erica waits in his last period class after school with Meredith talking up a storm. She’s detected the change in Erica. Jared comes in, sees Erica, and leaves right away. Erica chases him down the hall and begs for another chance. Jared still thinks she’s a boy, and Erica proves she’s not by forcing a long kiss on him. He becomes convinced as he and Erica hear Meredith scream from the classroom. They run back to discover the same boys taking another kitten back in the woods. This time, Erica freaks out with Meredith and Jared don’t get it. The girls run out of the room.
In Chapter 27, Erica and Meredith arrive on the scene where the four boys are hitting the kitten with sticks. The girls rescue the kitten, but the boys attack Erica. Jared shows up and a fight breaks out. The boys are defeated, but not before Erica is knocked out. When she comes to, she’s turned back into a boy.
In Chapter 28, Eric meets his mother at the new school. She is a bit disappointed, but they bond and promise to be closer from now on. They know that Eric will have to change back to his old school now. In front of Miss Kornbaugh’s class, Eric meets his friend-in-crime, Frankie. He thinks Eric was forced to wear the girls’ clothes after being hypnotized by Mr. Etee. Three of the girls he shot spitballs at come by. Frankie waits for Eric to let them have it, but instead Eric kisses their hands and pays them compliments. Frankie tries some mischief, but Eric stops it and threatens Frankie. Frankie claims he’s skipping class and walks off. The girls believe the change in Eric and go into the classroom. Chaztity comes along and he sweet talks her and asks her out to the movies. She turns him down, and he tells her to ask the other three girls if she should date hi. They both go inside and see a different substitute teacher. When they sit, after Chaz has had a chance to talk to the other three girls, she agrees to date him. The principal drags Frankie into the classroom. When he leaves, the substitute asks Frankie to step into the supply room.
I ended the day at Sweet Tomatoes proofreading a second draft on the last half of the book, since I never got a chance to proofread from there since Saturday. I concentrated of finishing the first draft before Feb 6.
I started off this morning writing chapters 23 and 24. Then I decided I had to do something about the title. It has been bothering me since I first titled it. In the story, Mr. Aleen, the alien, whose name I changed this evening to Mr. Etee, previously called all girls “Earth Princesses”. So, I decided to play on that and came up with Eric Dasher, Princess of Planet Earth. That seemed too long, so I changed it to Eric Dasher, Earth Princess. I liked it and went on with my day.
This evening, sitting in Sweet Tomatoes Restaurant waiting for my handicapped daughter to get off work so I could drive her to her apartment, I decided that the two halves of the new title should be more similar. As it stood, it was ED, EP, and I thought it should be EP, EP … and more poetic. So, now I had to change Eric’s last name. I decided his last name should start like the word “Princess”. Since I’m studying the Romanian language for my return trip to that country to get my sequel for To Be a Gypsy, the Romanian word prinzul popped in my mind. That sounded like a good last name, so the book will be called, Eric Prinzul, Earth Princess. And, oh, by the way. Prinzul means ‘lunch’ … no connection since the alien isn’t here to eat anyone.
In Chapter 23, Eric’s mother drives her to the movies. She kids Erica about her date until Erica can’t stand it. Then Jared and Erica go inside. While Jared buys popcorn and a drink, Erica uses the girls’ room. Chazity, from Erica’s old school, the girl he pestered to get into trouble with the alien substitute, recognizes her and tells the other girls in the restroom that Erica’s a boy in disguise. They force Erica out and she tries to get Jared in the movie before Chazity comes out, but when she sees Chaz and her sister coming toward the same movie, she bends Jared over and gives him a long kiss trying to hide herself. Too late! Chaz lets the cat out of the bag, and Jared runs out of the movie theater. Mission failed … again.
In Chapter 24, Mr. Etee returns to Erica’s room at night, but he is not angry. He understands that it was Chaztity (a slight name change here … just for the spelling … Chazity is the name of a real high school student I know) who came on the scene and broke up the date. He tries to calm Erica down, tucks her in, and tells her he will be making a big change in her life for the next day. (No, he’s not changing her back to a boy.)
In Chapter 25, Mrs. Prinzul comes in and finds Erica sitting at her vanity table. She asks to help her daughter, and finds her very cooperative. A bit shocked, Mrs. Prinzul, selects the choices of clothes Erica would have made yesterday. Erica turns them down and selects the clothes her mother selected the day before … clothes she had turned down. Accepting her mother’s offer to help her with makeup, unlike the day before, Mrs. Prinzul leaves. Her brother barges in, as before, but Erica’s attitude is filled with love for her brother, not like the day before.
In Chapter 26, Erica waits in his last period class after school with Meredith talking up a storm. She’s detected the change in Erica. Jared comes in, sees Erica, and leaves right away. Erica chases him down the hall and begs for another chance. Jared still thinks she’s a boy, and Erica proves she’s not by forcing a long kiss on him. He becomes convinced as he and Erica hear Meredith scream from the classroom. They run back to discover the same boys taking another kitten back in the woods. This time, Erica freaks out with Meredith and Jared don’t get it. The girls run out of the room.
In Chapter 27, Erica and Meredith arrive on the scene where the four boys are hitting the kitten with sticks. The girls rescue the kitten, but the boys attack Erica. Jared shows up and a fight breaks out. The boys are defeated, but not before Erica is knocked out. When she comes to, she’s turned back into a boy.
In Chapter 28, Eric meets his mother at the new school. She is a bit disappointed, but they bond and promise to be closer from now on. They know that Eric will have to change back to his old school now. In front of Miss Kornbaugh’s class, Eric meets his friend-in-crime, Frankie. He thinks Eric was forced to wear the girls’ clothes after being hypnotized by Mr. Etee. Three of the girls he shot spitballs at come by. Frankie waits for Eric to let them have it, but instead Eric kisses their hands and pays them compliments. Frankie tries some mischief, but Eric stops it and threatens Frankie. Frankie claims he’s skipping class and walks off. The girls believe the change in Eric and go into the classroom. Chaztity comes along and he sweet talks her and asks her out to the movies. She turns him down, and he tells her to ask the other three girls if she should date hi. They both go inside and see a different substitute teacher. When they sit, after Chaz has had a chance to talk to the other three girls, she agrees to date him. The principal drags Frankie into the classroom. When he leaves, the substitute asks Frankie to step into the supply room.
I ended the day at Sweet Tomatoes proofreading a second draft on the last half of the book, since I never got a chance to proofread from there since Saturday. I concentrated of finishing the first draft before Feb 6.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Actually this is for yesterday ... Super Bowl Sunday. I was so glad the Colts won. Tony Dungy deserved it. Anyway, I wrote four chapters that day and didn't have time to get to the blog.
In Chapter 19, Erica participates in the sleepover. The girls end up discussing their dysfunctional likenesses (they discover they all live in single parent households). After each girl tells of her real life situation, Erica tells the others that she’s a trans-sexual, a person whose brain is a different gender than their body. It crashes the party.
In Chapter 20, the next night, Mr. Aleen appears and reprimands Erica for not trying to blend in as a girl at the sleepover. He gives her one more chance. She’s to ask the principal’s son, Jared, the boy with the crush on her, out on a date.
In Chapter 21, the next morning has come and Erica’s mother enters Erica’s room and treats her like a daughter. She rebels and gets rid of her mother. Then her pesky brother teases her. When she drives him away, she ponders the coming date with certain hopelessness.
In Chapter 22, at her new school, Erica waits after the last bell for Jared to show up. She gets up the courage to ask him to go to the movies. He accepts. Meredith is there and sees some boys from the window taking a kitten into the woods. She gets very emotional and concerned, but Jared and Erica just wonder what the big deal is.
In Chapter 19, Erica participates in the sleepover. The girls end up discussing their dysfunctional likenesses (they discover they all live in single parent households). After each girl tells of her real life situation, Erica tells the others that she’s a trans-sexual, a person whose brain is a different gender than their body. It crashes the party.
In Chapter 20, the next night, Mr. Aleen appears and reprimands Erica for not trying to blend in as a girl at the sleepover. He gives her one more chance. She’s to ask the principal’s son, Jared, the boy with the crush on her, out on a date.
In Chapter 21, the next morning has come and Erica’s mother enters Erica’s room and treats her like a daughter. She rebels and gets rid of her mother. Then her pesky brother teases her. When she drives him away, she ponders the coming date with certain hopelessness.
In Chapter 22, at her new school, Erica waits after the last bell for Jared to show up. She gets up the courage to ask him to go to the movies. He accepts. Meredith is there and sees some boys from the window taking a kitten into the woods. She gets very emotional and concerned, but Jared and Erica just wonder what the big deal is.
Saturday, February 3, 2007
DOWNWARD SOME MORE
I altered the title again. Now it's My Substitute Teacher is from a Parallel Universe ... and I still am not satisfied.
I managed four chapters this morning. In chapter 15, Erica goes to school early and tells Meredith she would like to go to her sleepover. Thrilled, Meredith becomes not so thrilled when Erica tells her the condition ... she has to allow Tabitha, who talks too much, to come. But Meredith agrees and tells Erica to have her mother drive her and Tabitha to a local restaurant that Friday evening and that she’s already invited another girl from their school, Mary, the only Jewish girl in the school.
In chapter 16, Erica finds out her mother invited Tabitha over for supper that night. She protests as her mother fusses over Erica by wanting to do girly things to her, like brush her hair. Mrs. Dasher even went out and bought a vanity for her new daughter. Frustrated, Erica runs downstairs to wait for supper.
In chapter 17, Erica runs into the dining room to find her brother Hugh there. He teases her about girly things and then Tabitha shows up. They sit at the dining room table waiting for Mrs. Dasher. Tabitha talks, and talks, and talks some more. Finally, Mrs. Dasher enters with the food which finally shuts Tabitha up.
In chapter 18, Mrs. Dasher drives Tabitha and Erica to the restaurant to meet with Meredith and her mother. Going inside, a boy bumps into Erica, and he treats her badly simply because she's a girl. It makes Erica think how she's done the same thing as Eric to other girls. Inside, the fourth girl in the overnight party arrives. Mary is a geeky-looking character, dressed out of style, but with seemingly a superior attitude.
I managed four chapters this morning. In chapter 15, Erica goes to school early and tells Meredith she would like to go to her sleepover. Thrilled, Meredith becomes not so thrilled when Erica tells her the condition ... she has to allow Tabitha, who talks too much, to come. But Meredith agrees and tells Erica to have her mother drive her and Tabitha to a local restaurant that Friday evening and that she’s already invited another girl from their school, Mary, the only Jewish girl in the school.
In chapter 16, Erica finds out her mother invited Tabitha over for supper that night. She protests as her mother fusses over Erica by wanting to do girly things to her, like brush her hair. Mrs. Dasher even went out and bought a vanity for her new daughter. Frustrated, Erica runs downstairs to wait for supper.
In chapter 17, Erica runs into the dining room to find her brother Hugh there. He teases her about girly things and then Tabitha shows up. They sit at the dining room table waiting for Mrs. Dasher. Tabitha talks, and talks, and talks some more. Finally, Mrs. Dasher enters with the food which finally shuts Tabitha up.
In chapter 18, Mrs. Dasher drives Tabitha and Erica to the restaurant to meet with Meredith and her mother. Going inside, a boy bumps into Erica, and he treats her badly simply because she's a girl. It makes Erica think how she's done the same thing as Eric to other girls. Inside, the fourth girl in the overnight party arrives. Mary is a geeky-looking character, dressed out of style, but with seemingly a superior attitude.
Friday, February 2, 2007
ONWARD AND DOWNWARD
I failed to get on yesterday where I wrote two more chapters. Before writing them, I decided that Chapter 9 needed to be broken up into two chapters (9 and 10). I did that and then wrote chapters 11 and 12.
In Chapter 11, Erica gets enrolled in private school ... just what the alien told her she'd have to do. She's introduced to her first period class and when given a choice to sit next to a redheaded girl, Meredith, who looks like she wants to be Erica’s friend, he chooses the only other empty seat ... surrounded by boys, and they don't take too well to receiving her in their male-dominated part of the room.
In Chapter 12, at lunch, Erica shuns Meredith's attempts at friendship again and tries to fit in with the boys by asking to play softball with them. The boys give Erica a test try, but when she hits a homerun, they all walk off and leave her.
In chapter 13, Erica is waiting to be picked up by her mother. in her teacher's room. Meredith stays behind and starts talking to her. Mrs. Katzenmeister, their teacher, asks Erica embarrassing questions that are better asked of girls. Jared, the principal's thirteen-year-old son, enters. He has a crush on Mrs. Katzenmeister ... that is until he sees Erica and falls head-over-heels-in love with her. Frustrated, Eric runs out.
In Chapter 14, Erica gets home and confronts Mr. Aleen in his room and begs to be made a boy again. The alien disregards that request, reminds her the only way out is to be a real girl, and he gives her another assignment. She's to get Meredith to invite her over on a sleepover and to get Tabitha, the neighborhood girl, invited as well.
I decided to change the title to My Substitute Teacher is an Alien, but I found out that a very popular book exists titled, My Teacher is an Alien. There is no copyright on titles, and it might be considered wise to pick a title that is similar to a successful book, but I don't feel comfortable with it. However, a title is something that changes ... and indeed a publisher usually settles on a title other than the author's choice. We'll see what happens.
The onward and downward refers to writing on the computer, which is the way I write. To go onward in the story, the text must go downward.
Yesterday, I mailed the submission to Writers House.
In Chapter 11, Erica gets enrolled in private school ... just what the alien told her she'd have to do. She's introduced to her first period class and when given a choice to sit next to a redheaded girl, Meredith, who looks like she wants to be Erica’s friend, he chooses the only other empty seat ... surrounded by boys, and they don't take too well to receiving her in their male-dominated part of the room.
In Chapter 12, at lunch, Erica shuns Meredith's attempts at friendship again and tries to fit in with the boys by asking to play softball with them. The boys give Erica a test try, but when she hits a homerun, they all walk off and leave her.
In chapter 13, Erica is waiting to be picked up by her mother. in her teacher's room. Meredith stays behind and starts talking to her. Mrs. Katzenmeister, their teacher, asks Erica embarrassing questions that are better asked of girls. Jared, the principal's thirteen-year-old son, enters. He has a crush on Mrs. Katzenmeister ... that is until he sees Erica and falls head-over-heels-in love with her. Frustrated, Eric runs out.
In Chapter 14, Erica gets home and confronts Mr. Aleen in his room and begs to be made a boy again. The alien disregards that request, reminds her the only way out is to be a real girl, and he gives her another assignment. She's to get Meredith to invite her over on a sleepover and to get Tabitha, the neighborhood girl, invited as well.
I decided to change the title to My Substitute Teacher is an Alien, but I found out that a very popular book exists titled, My Teacher is an Alien. There is no copyright on titles, and it might be considered wise to pick a title that is similar to a successful book, but I don't feel comfortable with it. However, a title is something that changes ... and indeed a publisher usually settles on a title other than the author's choice. We'll see what happens.
The onward and downward refers to writing on the computer, which is the way I write. To go onward in the story, the text must go downward.
Yesterday, I mailed the submission to Writers House.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
VERY PRODUCTIVE DAY
I wrote three chapters today. Two at home before work, and one at work before the students came. I now have over 11,000 words written since Jan 28. I gave in to planning today. I got ideas as to more complicated progressive events and jotted them down in my Novel Workup page. That's the first bit of preplanning I've done.
In the chapters (7-9), Eric (now Erica) and her mother go home where Erica confronts her brother. Her mother comes up after supper and talks her into showering. The older brother, Hugh (14), who thinks Erica is not a girl, believes Eric pervertedly is dressing in girl’s clothing and sneaks a peek at Eric in the shower. In total shock, Hugh runs back to his room. Chapter 9 ends when Eric is finishing shampooing his long blonde hair (it used to be short and brown) and the shower door is opened again. Thinking it's his brother again, she turns to discover Mr. Aleen, the alien substitute, standing there.
As usual, I read all three through a second time. I like to do a second draft so I can catch all the gross mistakes while my memory of the script is fresh. If I wait too long to edit, I may get confronted with too gross an error and not know what I meant.
I also finished the To Be a Gypsy Query letter to Writer's House's Rebecca Sherman. Tomorrow I will send it to that agent along with the synopsis and first ten pages. I really want representation by Writers House.
In the chapters (7-9), Eric (now Erica) and her mother go home where Erica confronts her brother. Her mother comes up after supper and talks her into showering. The older brother, Hugh (14), who thinks Erica is not a girl, believes Eric pervertedly is dressing in girl’s clothing and sneaks a peek at Eric in the shower. In total shock, Hugh runs back to his room. Chapter 9 ends when Eric is finishing shampooing his long blonde hair (it used to be short and brown) and the shower door is opened again. Thinking it's his brother again, she turns to discover Mr. Aleen, the alien substitute, standing there.
As usual, I read all three through a second time. I like to do a second draft so I can catch all the gross mistakes while my memory of the script is fresh. If I wait too long to edit, I may get confronted with too gross an error and not know what I meant.
I also finished the To Be a Gypsy Query letter to Writer's House's Rebecca Sherman. Tomorrow I will send it to that agent along with the synopsis and first ten pages. I really want representation by Writers House.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
TWO MORE CHAPTERS
Today I wrote chapters five and six. In five, Erica's mother takes her to their family doctor. In the waiting room, she sees the 10-year-old girl, Tabitha, living across the street from her house. She questions why Erica looks so much like Eric and she tells Tabitha that she is his twin sister come to visit. She tells Tabitha that she lives with her divorced father in Pennsylvania.
In chapter six, they are admitted to the doctor, because Erica's mother insisted on seeing him due to an emergency. They try to explain the circumstances to the doctor, but he becomes very confused, and when he finally understands what they're saying, he recommends a psychiatrist and leaves.
At this point, the story sits at over 8,600 words and I have yet to plan either characters or plot. Both seem to be unfolding on their own as I go along. I get ideas about where the plot will go next, and even an inkling of how it will end, but I'm just going to let it go on at it's own pace and have fun with it.
I've got a great feel for it. I know the next chapter has to be about going home to meet the brother. Then I think it's time for the substitute teacher to pop in on Erica in her bedroom where we can learn a little more of where he's coming from. He's going to give our little hero (heroine) some assignments. Erica will remain in a female body with a boy's brain trapped inside, and when he begs to be changed back because he has found a new understanding about girls, the substitute will turn it up a notch and make it so his brain becomes female. I can see a wonderful ending, with Erica so used to being female, that he (she) doesn't want to go back to being a boy.
In some of the chapters already written, I've made it known that Erica's mother wanted him to be a girl when he was born. This will play well into allowing her to draw closer to him, now that her fondest wish has come true. When Erica's boys' brain is turned into a girls' brain, he's going to like the interaction with his mother as her daughter. Both will be closer than ever before.
Oh, well ... I was sort of thinking out loud.
Monday, January 29, 2007
TITLE CHANGE
I changed the title from Girl for a Month to Girl of the Month because the former gives too much away.
I wrote chapter three this morning and chapter four at work before my students arrived. I like to second-draft my work as I go along and yesterday afternoon I second-drafted the first two chapters. I couldn’t get the second-drafting of three and four done, because I had an unusually hectic day ... and I always put my students first.
After the first chapter, the protagonist, Eric Dasher, and his class think that Mr. Aleen, the substitute teacher, put girl clothes on him by hypnotizing him first. In the second chapter (after school), he goes to the bathroom to pee and makes the gruesome discovery that he's been turned into a girl.
Today I wrote the third and fourth chapter. In the third chapter, Eric, now Erica, walks home to confront her mother who thinks she's coming out as a trans-gendered girl. When she discovers that Eric’s boy parts have been changed to girl parts, she runs out of her room screaming. In the fourth chapter, Erica tries to change into her older brother's clothes, but something is preventing her from slipping into the pants and shirts. She suspects the alien substitute teacher has made it so she has to wear dresses or skirts.
I wrote chapter three this morning and chapter four at work before my students arrived. I like to second-draft my work as I go along and yesterday afternoon I second-drafted the first two chapters. I couldn’t get the second-drafting of three and four done, because I had an unusually hectic day ... and I always put my students first.
After the first chapter, the protagonist, Eric Dasher, and his class think that Mr. Aleen, the substitute teacher, put girl clothes on him by hypnotizing him first. In the second chapter (after school), he goes to the bathroom to pee and makes the gruesome discovery that he's been turned into a girl.
Today I wrote the third and fourth chapter. In the third chapter, Eric, now Erica, walks home to confront her mother who thinks she's coming out as a trans-gendered girl. When she discovers that Eric’s boy parts have been changed to girl parts, she runs out of her room screaming. In the fourth chapter, Erica tries to change into her older brother's clothes, but something is preventing her from slipping into the pants and shirts. She suspects the alien substitute teacher has made it so she has to wear dresses or skirts.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
IN THE BEGINNING
In the beginning, there was writing ... always writing. I've been writing steadily since 1994, and if blogs existed back then, I would have started one.
This is intended to be a creative record of my writings from now until ... whenever. Like many authors, I write under other pseudonyms. Authors do that so younger readers don't get a hold of objectionable material meant for an older readership.
Check me out at http://www.eugeneorlando.com/
Start Here:
Where am I now? Oh, yes--I'm putting together a story idea I'd like very much to write. It will probably be my next writing project. It is temporarily called Girl for a Month. It is the story of a boy, Eric Dasher (about 11), who has little respect for girls. In comes a substitute teacher at school, and the bullier of girls thinks right away--"Oh, boy. Time to party and make all the girls cry."
To his surprise, the male substitute teacher takes him into a little supply room off from the class and tells him he’s an alien assigned to punish Eric. He's to turn him into a girl for a month. Eric laughs and returns to the classroom wearing a skirt and top. All the kids still think he's a boy, and so they think that the substitute dressed him as a girl to punish his bad behavior toward girls. He thinks so, too, and suspects the man hypnotized him to make the switch. At the end of the period, he goes to the bathroom and discovers--uh, oh--he's a real girl!
Great idea for a story, right? I've always liked the Freaky Friday plot. I even wrote one for a more mature audience where a high school senior trades bodies with his sophomore sister. It won a second place prize in a nationwide unpublished novel contest.
So, today I started writing the first chapter ... and kept writing until I had two full chapters written ... about 2800 words.
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