hihihi.
natatawa ako sa title ng blog post na 'to pero wala akong maisip na mas babagay pa sa title nito.
So yeah, I attended a writing workshop last Saturday at Callospa Resort in Antipolo. It was for free and it's sponsored by the publishing company Bookware Publishing. I've actually published a book from them last year, it was the reason I was invited for this workshop :D
The place was kinda far, it was a good thing we have a service provided by the company. It was also really nice and peaceful and blah blah blah :)
I've met a lot of awesome writers who have already established a career in writing and I can help but feel a little envious because I've wanted to be one too! Some are really young, i think. I'm assuming I'm older by 2 years or so. Some have an approved manuscript and are waiting to be published. We were composed of 16 participants.
The workshop was conducted by two facilitators; Miss Apple and Miss Elvie who are both editors for My Special Valentine. Miss Elvie tackled about How to write a romance novel. It was more like a refresher to me since I'm already aware of what she had discussed because I have attended a romance writing workshop similar to that almost 3 years ago. For Miss Apple, about how to write, the do's and don'ts of writing a Desire novel, an imprint of My Special Valentine. I fondly call Desire novel as the "red book" or "aklat na pula". Why "Red Book" or "Aklat na Pula"? It's because the cover of the said book is red.
I've always dreamed of writing a novel for this imprint. I think it's COOL. I'm exposed to reading a lot of mature novels and recently been addicted to reading fanfictions (Jaejoong's to be more specific) in the SMUT genre. But I don't have the courage to write because I know I'm not good in writing love scenes or sexy scenes in a novel. I'm actually not good in writing in general! I'm just a trying hard one! LOL. I've tried writing a smut fanfic though, it was for MatsuJun! And it was so hard!
We did a lot of Activity in the workshop. It's sooooo fun but I admit it wasn't easy for me. I was forced to squeeze the creative juices in my brain...if I have any. The last activity we did was to write a love scene from the three video clips from the movies that were presented to us: The Notebook, Kim Basinger and Micky Roarke movie (which I can't recall the title), and Scent of a Woman (Korean drama, starring Kim SunAh and Lee DongWook). I chose Scent of a Woman. I think I've written a really nice pre-lovescene scene but wasn't able to write the "kaganapan" or the act of love scene. I find it hard to write it on the spot, to be really honest. Mind wasn't functioning on that time /sigh.
I really want to try writing a Desire novel and I want to know how to write it in the right way that's why I participated in this workshop. I really admire the romance writers who conveys this genre with the characters doing "it" not just for the sake of doing "it" but as a reader you feel the love, passion, lust, desire, romance between the hero and heroine when you're reading them. I want to write a really nice love scene not just for the heck of writing it. I've wanted to write a mature story just like my favorite romance writers. If that happens, I'm sure, my heart would definitely soar with pride. And Oh, Miss Apple told us that the Desire imprint is the most in-demand books on their company that's why they're encouraging the writers to write for this imprint.
After, I finish the revision of my manuscript for the other publishing, I'll start writing the sexy book. Yaay! LOL.
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| my workshop classmates :) |
