Mangohead is Live!

The Mangohead Chronicles Fan Page is now live and is the best place for updates on Mangohead and his hijinx across San Marcos.

In other news, it seems as though the writer platform thing is actually working. I'm getting a lot of people from both twitter and facebook to visit the new project site but they're not translating into votes. Hopefully it will though as soon as I get some more people to share and vote. I figure there must be a way to link polls from a blog to a facebook page. Does anyone out there know how to do that?

Mangohead and the Zaboca Thief - An Update

This is my first serialized novel. I shall be posting up weekly updates. I will also be using some of YOU as characters, but of course I won't tell you which character represents who. Please Note the character and not their motivations or inclinations are based on you, i.e. ONLY how the character looks, not how he/she thinks. The only way to find out if I included you in this story is to read it, week by week, as it comes out on Tuesday Evenings. I will also be asking a question to see which way the story goes the next week, in the form of a poll, so don't forget to vote.

Mangohead and the Zaboca Theief

Interruption for a cause here guys. I'm still working on the 30 day author platform challenge, but I wanted to interject here to mention a project I'm working on. I'm not sure how many of you are fans of West Indian Fiction (I'm pretty sure most of you have never even heard of the genre) but being a Caribbean author, I've been bombarded with the standard of fiction writing in the Caribbean to be the likes of Sam Selvon, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming et.al. If you've never heard those names, I advise reading some books (The Lonely Londoners by Selvon, A House for Mr. Biswas by Naipaul, and In the Castle of My Skin by Lamming are among my favourites by these authors). Having been influenced by this and the concerted postings of the anecdotes of my friend Angelo Bissessarsingh on his facebook page, I've decided to give this thing a whirl. I've decided to do a weekly column with my writing and post it where available to see if I can get some readership involved. I plan to include all the diaspora of the Caribbean region, especially of the small rural district where I grew up.

Have you ever been inspired by a friend? I'f love to hear how...

Of Furniture and Moving

Personal space is a thing that I have to see about getting and maintaining responsibly. The "responsibly" part is what escapes me. I'm moving soon so I went to check to see if I can afford furniture on my current wage and it turns out that, hey, I can! That said, I'll have to see about how I'm getting furniture from outside the apartment to inside the apartment. The size of the door makes it slightly impossible. Which brings me to the question: Who Invented Doors that can't fit a bed through? Like seriously.

Have any of you guys ever had the need to move? How was it? Furnished or Unfurnished apartment?

30 Day Platform Challenge Days 11 and 12

Taking a little breather here to get in a blog post. I've gotten to days 11 and 12 of the challenge and I won't tell you what they are because it requires input by you guys and gals etc.
Firstly, I found this on my blog feed today and just HAD to share it because as writers I know that we ALL get into a certain humdrum way of writing that leads to our stories etc. being single-voiced and at times monotone. Miss Tydell makes some good points in that post and I'd advise anyone who writes to read it so you don't end up using one storytelling style all the time. Variety IS the spice of life after all.
So readers, do you have blogs? I'd like for anyone who reads or read this post to comment me back with your blog address so I can add you back. I like following new blogs; it's more variety. I guess that makes my life spicier than Mexican Chili?

Busy schedule just screwed everything up

So between moving (from whence I will have no internet for about a week) and all the stuff going on in my personal life, my updates have been a little sparse. I'll have to apologize. As it is I'm not sure what happened that made me end up getting home at 2:45 yesterday morning, but whatever it was it was probably good.
Couple the amount of sudden appointments I have with the idea that I'm sick with some sort of stomach bug and you get a person whose mind isn't on blogging, but rather is on trying to make sure his innards don't revolt and try to run for the border. Here's to hoping I'll recover sometime soon to be able to continue the 30-day challenge!

30 Day Challenge - Days 7 and 8

So for day 8, I was tasked with creating a LinkedIn profile here which took about an hour total. I managed to join a few writing groups and pending approval on a few others, but I'm well on my way I think. Day 7 was simply adding a share button to my blog posts if on the off-chance someone decides they'd like to share my work with someone else on twitter or facebook or even G+.
I also am keeping up with other blogs and commenting sparsely on posts using disqus (which I need to set up properly, note to self,: do that soon). I undertook a minor writing exercise on The Write Practice blog using the word "refusenik" in a short flurry of writing that would take up 5 minutes. It didn't turn out all that great, but it's not unreadable either. I dunno if it evokes any emotions though. I'm trying for emotion in my latest series of writing and I don't know if I'm failing miserably at it. Maybe I should just stick to tried-and-true writing with trope-like storylines and predictable characters...ah who am I kidding, I was never like that in the first place.