The Labyrinth's visitor

The Labyrinth’s visitor is a book written by the Spanish writer Rafael Abalos. I got this book in Spain when I visited Europe this last summer. I was reading the 30 dollar film school (Review coming soon), I finished it and I wanted something to read for the road and I saw this book. To be honest it called my attention for the cover ( Go Marketing people!) and the abstract on the back. I bought it and I think that on the road from Barcelona to Madrid I read it completely.

I know I always say this about the books I read but it is true about all the ones I’ve written reviews of. They get you as soon as you begin to read them. I guess is just part of almost every writer, to intrigue you since the very beginning, otherwise you wouldn’t keep on reading it.

You might think this is Fantasy story. That’s what I thought when I read the back of the book. But it it’s not Fantasy at all. There’s some fantasy elements, but the book and the story doesn’t happen in a fantasy environment as other books do.

It is a story of self discovery ; a prince that is about to be king on the quest of his life, where He’ll have to learn what it takes to be king starting with finding his name. The answer when you try to understand the why of things is not always what you expected it would be. There’s a lot of philosophic elements in the story that really makes you think and wonder in comparison to your life. The author mentions topics as friendship, courage, bravery and success. Success; I like how he touches this theme giving an example of someone successful, someone everybody remembers, then the main character meets him and see the reality of the topic.

I really should have written this review months ago, because now I don’t remember many things to discus them. I would describe this book as fantasy for grown ups, it has all the elements but at the same time, is like they’re not there.

Stoneheart

When I finished reading the Twilight series, as I mentioned before, I felt empty…just kidding, I did feel sad the story was over, but it was time to move on my reading and start involving in another story. It wasn’t hard to do it. There’s a lot of books waiting out there for me to read them. This one, in particular, called my attention for the cover, because it had a sticker saying “ Movie coming soon” Fantasy, bestseller and a movie coming soon? My golden dream…So I bought it.

The story gets you as soon as u start reading the first chapters and makes you wonder many things. The main idea of the book is that all the statues out there based on something or on someone, have a life, they are impregnated with the essence of that being in who they are base on. There are good statues called “ Vitratos “ ( I don’t know the word in English as I read the book in Spanish) and bad ones called “ Maculas”. They all have life, but almost nobody can see them. So it makes you wonder why this boy called George can? And even more interesting why, he can just see them suddenly when before he couldn’t do it. Why are the macula’s chasing him?... I like and believe in the idea of life in a parallel dimension…hove you ever felt somebody is watching you? You feel that tickling on your back of a sight, and then turn around and there’s nothing there? And Even when you see and know there’s nobody there you still feel there’s someone or something staring at you?...Is someone in another parallel dimension.

I would call this “Light” reading, as it is easy to read and to comprehend. I like the fact of the chapters being short because I don’t like to stop in the middle of a chapter and continue after; I always finish one chapter before stop reading.

I really can’t wait to see this book turned into a movie. It has action from beginning to end. It is adventurous and meaningful. It left me wanting to read the 2 following parts but they are not out in Mexico yet, so I’ll have to wait until I move to most consuming country: USA.
The story happens in London, so if you’ve been there before you’d be familiar with all the places and the actual statues as they really exist there.
On a school trip to the Natural History Museum in London, a 12-year-old loner named George is banished for something he didn't do. Angry, he lashes out and breaks off a dragon's head carved onto the wall of the museum. Next thing he knows, a pterodactyl carving comes to life and begins to chase him. From Gunner, a walking, talking statue, George learns that he has entered another layer of reality, and that his arrival has started a new war between good spits (statues that are imbued with a soullike essence by their inspired makers) and evil taints (soulless carvings). With the advice of various spits, and the companionship of a girl named Edie, George seeks answers from two Sphinx statues, whose enigmatic clues lead the pair into a terrifying adventure. Creatively building on the plentiful gargoyles and other creepy stonework of its urban setting, this lengthy novel, the first in a planned trilogy, will draw capable readers for its suspenseful chase scenes, scary creatures, and highly original premise. Tixier Herald, Diana

Students life: the new beginning.

Every beginning has an ending and College isn’t the exception. It came to an end. I still can’t believe it. I feel like I’m on winter break and that I will return next year but I won’t. I won’t even step on college again. It is over, but studying will never end. We keep on learning during out whole life…

As We go on, we remember, we will remember out student life forever, as perhaps, the easiest part of our life’s. My parents told me I would miss school, but to be honest I still haven’t missed it, may because I’ll keep studying for the next two years, but anyway, I think you get tired of exams, homework, projects and attending useless classes, school should be more hands on.
By the end of College, you start realizing how much your life is going to change when you are done with your studies and begin to be on your own. Some start working earlier, some later, but we all eventually have to work and know how hard life is when you are no longer under your parent’s wings or in your parent’s nest. Your whole life will change. I haven’t’ experienced it myself yet, but I’ve seen people that have. In college, when you start seeing you classmates all dressed up for class, either they dress really nice or they have started working. I go more for the second option. Jeans and t-shirts are no longer part of your everyday outfits. Snickers? Are u kidding? You have to wear casual shoes! It doesn’t matter if you have to be walking from one side to another…comfortable clothes are only for weekends when you don’t have to work, opposite to how it used to be.

Wait there’s also a good side from starting your new life; instead of paying to attend something you don’t like to go, You’ll get paid! The bad side, if you don’t like your job it is going to be a hell and a pain in the ass too.

I really can’t believe I’m done with this. I got my Bachelor’s Degree diploma, I hold it, stared at it and thought: “This is it…four and a half years to get this piece of paper” But it isn’t just a piece of paper it is a complete set of knowledge represented in that piece of paper.

As I’ve written before, school gives you knowledge in many different topics, but more important, it teaches you lessons for life in the most important subjects, where you neither fail or pass, which are : Love and friendship. School teaches you the basics, life will give you the advance.
College is the end of a stage of life, “after college life” is the beginning of a whole new adventure….Nobody knows what it will bring, although we would like to know, but there again, it wouldn’t be as surprising…Life is going to be very different now and all I have to say is that I’m ready for the first day of my new life...

Student life: College

When I started college my father told me that now I was going to get real education, that I was going to learn stuff with really great value for life. No more biology things or how plants turn Co2 into Oxygen. I wasn’t really convinced to n start College. First because I would have to wait 4 years and a half to study what I really wanted to study. ( My dad told me that if I studied Business management He would pay the film School for me…And so I did) I knew or well…I expected that College wouldn’t be as fun as High School. Things were going to get really serious now. If I felt like a grown up in High School, I felt completely grown up when I started College. I remember my first week, I went to a party on a weekday. I didn’t get home until 11 pm and I hadn’t started my homework, I had a quiz the following day and I had to read 3 full chapters for a random oral quiz. I didn’t care. “I’m in College now. I can to go bed really late and wake up really early the following day. Can’t I? “ I was just 17 when I started College. I really don’t know why I felt like that. I see pictures of my first year of college and I look like a baby (Not that I look like the age I am now…but still).

Everything you didn’t do before , You will do it in college. EVERYTHING…if you don’t, then You’ll never do it. If you hadn’t get drunk before, you will do in College, if You heart hasn’t been broken before, It will be broken in College, if you’re lucky, just once, if not…well… As in High School you’d meet life time friends in College. A different type of friends. Friends that may not go out with you and party every weekend , and you may not see them in weeks or months, but friends that You know they’ll be there when you need them, even if you call them 4 am in the morning and they have a terrible hang over.

My dad was right, I learned a lot during College, but even more than business related stuff, I learned a lot from life. It was during College When I did the Filmmaking workshop back in 2005, also during college I finished my third book and published my first one. I studied a year abroad, but from that I will write in many more entries.

At the beginning, the first year of College, may be the first too, seemed to me like a continuation of High School, obviously with different topics to study, but then It got more complicated. Specially in my major, there’s lot of numbers involved. We learned lots of procedures that I hope not to use. I don’t see myself in front of a computer working 8 hours a day on the same thing for the rest of my life.

There’s a lot of good memories I take from college, but I wouldn’t do it again. I’m done with it! I’ll always remember “our taco day” where We had to set up a Taco Store just for one night, or the Speeches contest where I was chosen to participate ( I really don’t know how I did it) Or my book presentation…lots of memories….

The next step is different for everybody, I would write College is just the ending of the students life, but the beginning of a whole new adventure…

Student life: High School...

High School. You have 3 years to decide what You want to do with your life, in case You don’t know already. 3 years seem like a very long time, but BELIEVE Me they fly as if they were just only 3 months. I knew what I wanted since the beginning, but other had no clue and even now that We are in College, they don’t know if what we’ are about to graduate of, is what they wanted to study at the first place.

High School, I remember it as one of the best parts of my life. I had so much fun. I remember someone told me that it is high school were you meet some of your best friends for life and He was true. I met unforgettable people. I learned the true meaning of friendship. I have so many good memories from High School. If someone told me I could go back in time and High School would be the same it was as when I studied it, I would totally do it over again.

It was High School when I started writing. I changed a lot during the 3 years of High School and I bet a lot of people do change during that period.

Many will share this opinion with me, High School is so much fun. You learn more things outside the class room than in it. Some get their hearts broken an learn how to put it back together again, some will suffer from friends disappointments and betrayals…but at the end, You will be ok. That is what life is made of.

I remember that when I was in High School I felt like an all grown-up. Well...I wasn’t even close to that.

Many of us, try out first alcoholic drink during High School, just for trying, to know what it feels. It just wasn’t my thing. I didn’t start drinking until college, but I must admit that first time I drank was a fun night out…Talking about night outs, You start partying, You no longer have afternoon outs, but night outs.

Dates? OMG…I remember how nervous I was during my first date with a girl and when I had my first girlfriend I didn’t know how to act, how to behave, it all was very new to me.

As everything in life, High school has an ending too and the time came where Everybody took a different path, and my friends community broke apart knowing that when we needed each other, We would be there to give us support…

Quote of the Week

"Faith, is to keep believing with your heart, even when your head tells you not to"
"Fe, es creer con el corazón, aun cuando tu cabeza te diga lo contrario"

I was going through my third book and I found this line. To be honest I didn't even remember to have written it, but then when I read it. It gave me hope...

Santa Claus is coming to town..

Wow….The last month of the year has arrived. I love December. It is my favorite month. I love to set up the Christmas three and decorate the house. I love Christmas carols, I love the Christmas Spirit. There are just 30 days for this year to be over and for the year 2009 to begin .
I love the December vibe everywhere. It is something magical. Since I was a kid, I’ve like this month so much. I was one of those kids that believed in Santa Claus Faithfully, I loved to gather with my family on Christmas eve and then open up my presents the following day while listening to “Santa Claus is coming to town” or “ I’m dreaming of the white Christmas”….The only thing missing was the snow and that’s because here in Mexico we don’t get any, or almost any.
In my plans, there is to write a Christmas novel and also remake my all time favorite Christmas movie. It is an old Mexican movie called “Santa Claus”…but don’t’ be deceived. It is really different to what We’ve seen before. It is a fight between good and evil in a cleverly fun way. I really hope to get to remake it someday…
Well, the main reason of this post is to share with you a music video I made with my sister 2 years ago. ( She really didn’t want me to share this, because She said She was too fat back then) Here it is…hope you like it.

Twilight the movie

Yesterday, finally , Twilight, the movie came out on thousands of theaters around the world. I was expecting the movie since I finished reading the book. A part of me was dying to see it, the other part wasn’t, because I didn’t want to see the book destroyed into a movie. Anyway I bought tickets for the premier at midnight.

What I liked about the movie was that it is faithful to the book. They keep the essence of it. They didn’t take out something that was vital on the book. Our favorite quotes are there, all the characters, the most important sequences and our favorite love scenes from the book.
I felt that Bella wasn’t that important in the movie as She is in the book. I mean She is still the protagonist of the movie along with Edward, but I felt that something was missing about her. May be it was the fact the book was supposedly written by her, and so, there’s more detail about what’s going on in her mind and heart than in the movie… But for the movie, I think is great what they did. As one of my favorites quotes says: “Movies are a shop window of human emotions” There’s a lot of emotions captured in the film.

I think many girls will love the movie because of the fake idea the director tries to implant on the girls mind; which is the “Idea of the perfect new millennium prince”. Men like Edward are not likely to exists in this new real world (except for me, perhaps..hahaha) . I would go more for the existence of women like Bella, that even with flaws, it is the closet thing to perfection. The Love story between Edward and Bella is taken to different levels, depending upon the reader. In the movie, it just makes you dream to find this kind of love and makes you wish you do find it….
Well...The book is way better than the movie. It gives you the freedom to imagine the story as you please. The movie does a great job capturing Edwards and Bella’s love story, the book takes it beyond.

I can’t wait to see the following books taken to the big screen.

A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

One of my friends gave me a book by James Joyce for my Birthday. I was reading the Twilight Series at that moment so I save this reading for when I was done with the vampire books.
First, I have to admit it was hard for me to start reading non-fiction after having read tons of pages about fiction. In some way I missed reading about the vampire love and about Bellas life.
So , when my friend gave me this book titled “ a Portrait of the Artist as a young man” , she told me she wanted me to keep writing as I used to do and She hoped this book inspired me and opened new horizons for me. The thing was, the thing is that I never stopped writing. What happens is that I don’t write as much as I used to due to lack of time…
This book is really different to what I had read before. It is an “almost Autobiography” of the author.

There’s almost not dialogue in the book, it is just descriptions of a third person…it keeps changing in the same page. Once You are reading something, that suddenly changes to an imaginative situation and then it goes back to reality. There are points in the novel where You don’t know if what You are reading is actually happening or it is just another thought of the main character. There’s a game of words well managed by the author. The words are complex and so is the structure.

I can’t tell if I like it or not. I can just write it is different form what I read and that may be in the future I will use that style on my writings.

Stylistically, the novel is written as a third-person narrative with minimal dialogue, though towards the very end of the book dialogue-intensive scenes and finally journal entries by Stephen are introduced to mirror his alienation from society. Since the work covers Stephen's life from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandoning of Ireland as a young man, the style of the work progresses through each of its five chapters, with the complexity of language gradually increasing. However, throughout the work, language and prose are used to portray indirectly the state of mind of the protagonist, and the subjective impact of the events of his life. Hence the fungible length of some scenes and chapters, where Joyce's intent was to capture the subjective experience through language, rather than to present the actual experience through prose narrative.

What I like about the book is that it describes the process of a kid turning into an artist, the process of how the writer turned into the recognized writer He became. Also it touches the theme of religion; how strong it can be in people’s minds. How for fear of your soul going to hell, you keep yourself from doing certain things that in most cases are not even bad actions….
And now…I’m going to start reading a novel title “ Stone Heart” Fantasy, which I’m madly in love in.

Breaking Dawn

I finally finished reading Breaking Dawn, the last installment in the vampire love series. It is the longest of the four books and I would even dare to say it is the best one.

We’ve been wondering since the ending of the first book if Bella is to turn into a vampire…Well…you’ll find the answer in this one. I remember that before this book came out in Mexico, they had a trailer on the website. There, you could see a woman dressed as a bride, while She was walking, You could hear a glass breaking into pieces and then a baby crying… When I saw It, a lot of ideas came to my mind…I was sure she was going to get married with Edward in this book. They had been talking of marriage since the beginning of the third book….but what about the baby cry? Vampires can not have babies. The thing is, that when they turn into a vampire, they body “freezes ” in that state and it is not able to change anymore…so A vampire can not grow a baby inside her because Her body can not change anymore…But what about a human having a vampires child?...

The book is really good from beginning to end. We’ve followed the love story of Edward and Bella since they first met and now reading the wedding and the honey moon just makes it better. Edward promised Bella that He would turn her into a vampire if she married him, and She did. Now He has to fulfill his promise, but things are about to get complicated when She gets pregnant with a baby that is growing faster than normal babies does…

The book, as the others is cleverly written. The book is divided in 3 parts. Two of them written by Bella and the other is written by Jacob…That makes it even more interesting, because You read two different points of view. Jacob starts writing his story beginning from the moment He sees Bella pregnant and weak, lying on a couch. I didn’t like Jacob that much, but when reading how much he suffered from not having Bella with him made me like him a little bit more.
I like the fact that the book touches not only carnal love, but mother’s love and friends love…How different they are but at the same time how strong they all can be…

It makes me sad that this was the end of the Story. I’ve been reading this books since my last semester of college started and the story became a part of me. I felt like the story was real and when I read the ending: something like “ We were ready for our happy eternity”, made me thing that vampire story would be on my mind for eternity…It was different from what I had read about vampires before and made me wonder a lot of things related to the story. (Things I’ll write about in another post) when You live forever, What do you live for?

Now, I tried to think what the titles of the books meant in relation to the stories and here’s my theory:

Twilight: 1. The subdued light just after sunset or, in less common usage, just before sunrise
2. the period from sunset to dark
any growing darkness
a condition or period of gradual decline following full development, achievement, glory, etc.

I think that in the first story she used twilight to refer to the change that there was going to be in Bella an Edwards life’s. They were about to change drastically for good , but at the same time, they would have to front a lot of trouble.

New moon: In this one, a new moon represents the end of the moon cycle. That part of the story represented a change in Bella’s life, and the beginning of a new cycle or new life?

Eclipse: the sun passes over the moon or vice versa. I think that in this case the day turned into darkness for Edward and Bella.
Breaking dawn: this one is easy…after the night, there’s the light of a new sun.

Great love stories thrive on sacrifice. Throughout The Twilight Saga (Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse), Stephenie Meyer has emulated great love stories--Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights--with the fated, yet perpetually doomed love of Bella (the human girl) and Edward (the vampire who feeds on animals instead of humans). In Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final installment in the series, Bella’s story plays out in some unexpected ways. The ongoing conflicts that made this series so compelling--a human girl in love with a vampire, a werewolf in love with a human girl, the generations-long feud between werewolves and vampires--resolve pretty quickly, apparently so that Meyer could focus on Bella’s latest opportunity for self-sacrifice: giving her life for someone she loves even more than Edward. How close she comes to actually making that sacrifice is questionable, which is a big shift from the earlier books. Even though you knew Bella would make it through somehow, the threats to her life, and to her relationship with Edward, had previously always felt real. It’s as if Meyer was afraid of hurting her characters too much, which is unfortunate, because the pain Bella suffered at losing Edward in New Moon, and the pain Jacob suffered at losing Bella again and again, are the fire and the heart that drive the whole series. Diehard fans will stick with Bella, Edward, and Jacob for as many twists and turns as possible, but after most of the characters get what they want with little sacrifice, some readers may have a harder time caring what happens next.

REMEMBER THE TWILIGHT MOVIE COMES OUT THIS FRIDAY!

Student life: Life gets complicated

We finished elementary school. Depending on how fast you mature, you started realizing how complicated life can be, and at the same time, started experiencing the new pleasures it offers. Math get more complicated. Square roots? Square numbers? X, Y, Z? During our whole elementary school we thought they were letters, they never mentioned us the little detail that they can be numbers. Biology? During or early years we had thought babies were delivered by a big white bird from Paris, then they told us the story about mom’s and dad’s seed. ( In my case, They told me that when a woman wanted to get pregnant She told God and God would implant a seed in the woman’s stomach and that seed would grow a baby during 9 months….incredible, uh?)

With the new biology class at Junior High school We learned that babies are made in a really different way…Back then, We boys weren’t that interested in girls, and girls weren’t that interested in we, boys… and suddenly, if it weren’t enough with all the complicated things We had to learn at school (Damn sins and cos!), and that our bodies were changing growing hair where we didn’t know it could grow, We realized we nor only like the opposite sexy, but We started caring for them more than usual…We discovered the “heartaches” (And we started wishing we could be kids forever where there were no such things) Friendship no longer included inviting our friends to our houses to play, but to hang out, play video games, and girls started gossiping ( haha..no offense!) Some started having dates, having their kisses, getting heart-breaks…But well…In my opinion, one can not fall in love at that age…I guess it is just a love-illusions…You are crying one day because you broke up and then the next day you are dating another girl as if nothing had happened…

Some mature faster than others. In my case it took me a while. Almost all of my friends were feeling “grown-ups” while I was still playing with toys. My transition to puberty was Britney Spears. I turned on MTV one day and saw this fantastic school girl singing Baby one more time…it was love at first sight. Since then, I’ve been a number one fan.

I didn’t like Junior High School that much, but I have a couple of great memories from it. When I was on 3rd year I just couldn’t wait to start High School. I had been since kinder Garden in the same School and High school would be my change. My time to change and my time to meet many different new people and live one of the best times of my life…

Student life: The easiest years

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I’ve been very busy and not inspired at all. I’m about to finish college, so You can imagine how that keeps me busy by doing boring projects, useless essays and studying for my last exams. I won’t even have time to finish my fourth book this year. That’s why I postponed it until next spring. But The fact of me finishing college gave me the idea to start a series of essays about the “School life”. I’m going to keep with the ones about the international life, but I want to finish these before I graduate next December 8th. Here goes the first one, it is about Kinder Garden and Elementary School.
I think the part of our “student” life that We less remember is the Kinder Garden. I have a few memories from it and all of them are really Happy. I wouldn’t even consider it part of the student life because we don’t’ really study. We basically learned everything in the classroom. But We can’t deny those early years of our life are really happy. We all were really happy. Nothing could worry us. We believed in fantastic things. Specially me, I would believe everything they told me. I believed in magic ( I believe in magic…oh …oh) If We think in those 3 years of kinder garden They seemed like they happened in a blink of an eye…I remember I didn't like my Kinder Garden because I wanted to be where my mom worked. She used to be a kinder Garden teacher and I would cried for her to be my teacher.

Then we move to Elementary school. Back Then We would think it was really difficult, and it was…multiplications, divisions...We were only kids. Why would we have to deal with all that? (Later on we would know why). During the elementary years we are still very innocent. I remember I would even like to go to school during those years. I loved school, I just didn’t like the homework and sometimes I kept wondering who had invented the school? To be honest my only worry was to not be kicked out of the school… Junior High school seemed like the next step but at the same time It seemed so far away… High school? Centuries away and College? I wouldn’t even think about it…
It was the time of games and playing from which I have so many good memories… Parties would start at 4 pm and end at 8pm…Life was just staring and getting us ready for what was next; a series of changes, discoveries and life complications…Junior high School…

The Sleeping City...

Due to lack of time to write I’ve been force to move “Joe and the Sleeping City” to a Spring 2009 release. You won’t be disappointed, the book is really good. I’m even proud of myself. I waited many years to write it and all the ideas that were in my mind for this one are finally being developed. I really can’t wait to see this one turned into a movie. It is going to rock.


“The city awakes Spring 2009” Followed by Joe and The Magic Mythology What once was is about to be again…” December 2010”

US life Part: I:Moving to a new existence

During 2007 I studied in the United States. I’m going to write a series of entries about it. First entry is named “Reflections of the US life : Moving to a new existence”
About 2 years ago I started applying to study abroad. I had been waiting that since I started college. I was hard to convince my parents. They have always been very overprotective. I applied to go to Angers in France, but there were just two places in that University and 2 friends with a better GPA than mine got in. I got accepted to Belgium instead. (I’m glad they didn’t accept me. God knows why He does things and He had a very god plan for me) My French wasn’t that good, but anyway I was convinced to go. I was about to fill in the second part of the paper word the Walt Disney College program came to my university to give a presentation about the program. I attended and I fell in love with it. I did the interview and then they asked me what I wanted to take. There was an option of studying in North Carolina first and then going to Disney. I was so confused I didn’t know what to do. I ended up choosing the Greensboro- Disney program for many reasons. Between them was the fact that I have always like the US and that I had been 3 times to Disney and I love it.
I sent in my paper work by mid October 2006 . By then it seemed a very long way until January 2007. But time is treacherous and when you want it to stand still it rushes as if it was on a race against something. I closed my eyes, I opened them and I was packing to go away from home for 1 year. I left the country on January 1st 2007 exactly after the New years party. We drove from the Party to the airport. As soon as I step on the airport an copious sadness invaded me. I am/was one of those persons that are very close to the family. I wasn’t going to see my mom, my dad, my sister nor my brother. I was going to be on my own…. When I saw my mom crying I just couldn’t kept being strong and I started weeping. I was traveling with one of my best friends who was taking the same program as I. We had to arrive there 1 week before the classes started for introduction.

We got to Greensboro in North Carolina on January first around midday. We went to eat to McDonalds (How original, huh?). We went to bed and didn’t wake up until the phone rang and they delivered one of my suitcases and then we woke up the following day when somebody from the university picked us up at the hotel. We got the university. It was huge! Nothing to do with the one I go to. We had applied to an apartment type dorm, but We didn’t get it and stayed in a place called The I-House (International House). I got a room with a British red haired weird boy. I was so nervous in that new life. I remember I would go to bed the first nights and I dreamed that I was still in my home. I would wake up wishing to be back home…I regretted going to study abroad so much. The idea of going back to Mexico crossed my mind….But suddenly everything started looking better….

Eclipse

I finished reading the 3rd book of Stephanie Meyer on the vampire series. As I mentioned with my review of the second book, it seems like a really long novel split into 4 parts.

I would say the main idea of this book is the fact of being in love with two persons at the same time. Some may think it is not possible, but I think it actually is. The same with the book, it states that it actually is. You can be in love with two, so in love with two, but You always will love one more than the other…. you can’t just live without one of them, and at the same time You will suffer from the one you chose not to be with.
Inside You always know You can just live, love and be with one. ( Unless You are from one of those religions that allows marriage with two or more, and You are male)
Remember Bella is in love with Edward. Edward is in love with Bella. Bella is friends with Jacob. Jacob is a werewolf. Edward is a vampire. Vampires hate werewolves. Edward hates Jacob. Jacob is in love with Bella. Bella feels a very special love for Jacob…could it be love?
It is a really fun love story. It takes you from joy to the feel of fighting for the one you love. Love is a battlefield where everything is allowed, right? But at the end, You’ll give up to the one you love if that makes her happy. You rather not be with the one You love and her being happy, than be with her and she loving someone else.
When I finished reading this third part I immediately wanted to start reading the fourth and last one….The proof that You are totally in love with somebody is when are willing to give your live for that somebody. Bella is willing to give something even more….She has chosen to share an eternity with him, giving up to live a normal life…

"BELLA?"

Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.

This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine—like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.

* * *

As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob—knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

Here is the final trailer of the first movie based on the first book:

The Dark Love

Now is time to write about my third book. The last I have finished and the best one so far, I dare to write. I wrote that book in about 11 months or less and It is longer than the first two. I think it was the year I wrote the most. The ideas and the writing just seemed to flow. I had been planning that book since I started writing the first one. It was as if it had been on my mind for 3 years just waiting to be turned into words and materialize. If you read the first book and the second book ( And I mean really READ it. Read between the lines and analyze the clues) you can imagine what is going to happen in this third book. It is a more mature story than the first two, it’s a story that involves feelings, betrayal and a lot of action.
The dark love in this story and for me, it is when you love somebody that much but at the same time you hate it with all your body and heart. You love somebody that much that You will even give your own life to save him from death and protect him from everything… but Can you protect that somebody from yourself and your hate?
In this story it is also implied that each human ( wizard) has a good and a evil side. They control their good side, but from time to time their evil side take over them. When the evil side is dominant over their good side they turn into witches and sorcerers.
The last chapters of this book are so intense. Most people that have read it, have told me they cried at the end. It is just too emotional. I remember that at the end of it, I just couldn’t stop writing.
I finished his book during the summer of 2005. Right before taking the filmmaking workshop. There are a lot of quotes and life explanations in this book. Like the one I posted before. And there’s more that I’ll post eventually. (Like this week’s quote)

“After having been kidnapped Joe will have to face his worse enemy: himself. He’ll know the worse of feelings: the dark love, which will make him know his other truth and his dark side, which was hidden for many years. Now that Kukulcan has returned, He needs the Mystic Rose to recover his body and, along with his new allies He plans to use Joe himself to achieve his goal. Will Kukulcan be able to control Joe now that Joe has started feeling the Dark love? Will Him be able to face himself without hurting somebody else? What will happen when He discovers the secret that so jealously have been kept since his birth? The Dark love is a story filled with intrigue, suspense, and an ending that will mark Joe’s and Fantasy’s destiny forever….”

Quote of the week

This quote is from my third book too. I wrote it almost at the end of it. In spanish it says: "EL Hubiera es solo un deseo de lo que pudo haber sucedido y no pasó"

"Could have been is just a wish of what could have happened and didnt do..."- JCG

Quote of the week

"Even after the longest and darkest night, a big sun of hope will rise" - Zelen to Joe in "The Dark Love"

I wrote that back in 2005 at the end of my third book. And that`s how I feel. No matter how dark and long the night was, the sun will always rise again....

The abstract world of words

We think, We write, We communicate with ourselves and with others with words, but…What is a word?... A combination of letters, but that, by itself means nothing. What makes them so wonderful is the meaning we give them …What I like about them, is that they belong to the abstract world of ideas…You can not touch a word, you can touch the paper where it is written, you can see it, hear it, but you can not touch it…that’s what makes them abstract…The most amazing thing about them is that even when they are something conceptual they can make you cry or laugh…It is something abstract like love, something that makes you feel….The weirdest thing is that they are something you can not touch, however they make you experience a series of different emotions…and this is what I like to most about writing…There are millions of words, millions of different meanings…A simple combination of 4 letters can produce in your mind a revolution of ideas that will lead to a feeling “LOVE”….a few words put together might take you to tears: “At the end, She found him dead, that was when She realized that her world must come to an end, as She wouldn´t be able to survive without him and knowing that she was the reason of his death….”
What I love the most about writing is what I just mentioned. I can touch my book, but that’s what I’m touching, the cover and the paper with letters printed with black ink…I can open it and read the words, read them, but never touch them….and even when there’s just 300 pages, in my mind, while I read those words, I can create a new world and have feelings produced by the abstract world; The world of ideas, of imagination, the world of the non-existent becoming real, the world of words….
I love that with words you can create parallel worlds, you can make people feel what the abstract character is feeling, you can take him to tears or make him rejoice…There’s people that find confront and relieve themselves with words…You can take your mind and feelings way beyond the universe and create an intangible life worth telling and all that, just with different combinations of 27 letters….

Joe and the Everlasting Night

Joe & Everlasting Night

Now Is the turn to write about my second novel. It is the following story to the best seller ( Just kidding…Dreaming is free) Joe and the Black dragon Legend.
I think I hadn’t mentioned it before, but the original name to the first book was: The Prophecy : Joe and the Black Dragon Legend, but the publisher said it was too long, so they shorten it, taking out “The Prophecy”. So , as You can imagine the original name of the second book was “The Curse. Joe and The Everlasting night”. Nobody has told me to shorten it yet, but I simply did it.

To begin with. “Everlasting” is a word I love, I like the sound and meaning of it. Just by thinking of the synonyms of the word makes it even better: Endless, never-dying, perpetual, eternal, unending….There’s a lot of people that doesn’t like the night because of the darkness and that just stand it because at the end, the light will come again…Darkness is related to evilness, to fear…The night is the time when people sleep and when others take advantage of the darkness and make evil things, they kill, the steal, darkness is the time where vampires are supposed to be awake…

I got this idea when I did the brain storm for the first book. Originally this was supposed to be the 4th book in the series, but it changed to be the second. It is 100 word pages longer than the first one however it took me less to write it than the first one. It took me around one year to finish it. May be the reason why I wrote it faster than the first one is that during that year, one semester I was just taking 1 class, so I had a lot of free time I used to write (Oh…Good days….)
In the first book it was time for the prophecy to be fulfilled, the chosen was born…Now is time for the curse.

In Joe and the Everlasting night the curse made by Kukulcan is about to be fulfilled. His return is marked by the darkness, a night that is going to be eternal. Not only Kukulcan could be returning to the magic World but two other feared powerful beings are about to do so; The count Darius Vlood is about to awake and Giagon is about to be freed. Joe is just getting used to his magician life, but He will have to face a new challenge beyond magic...is friendship stronger than magic? Joe will realize friends can betray you, He’ll learn that love is not a game and that darkness is just the cover up for evilness now that everyday is darker and that light and hope is extinguishing …New and old friends, more magic, laughter and tension is what you’ll find out in this new adventure….

I imagine the cover more or less like the one I uploaded. But I would like to see the shadow of a bat on the moon.

A vampiric heartache- New Moon

I finished reading “New moon” yesterday. The following story to Twilight. It is a little bit longer than twilight, but anyway It doesn’t feel as a long book, because every chapter keeps your attention wondering What is going to happen next. It doesn’t feel like another story. I felt like I was still reading Twilight.

Different from Twilight in this story, The writer introduced the Lycans or were wolfs ( as You wish to call them) Who obviously are the opposite to the vampires. They can co-exist but they hate each other. Bella is in love with a Vampire and now she is about to discover that one of her best friends is a lycan. The love story between Edward and Bella stills gets you…It keeps me on wishing to find somebody that loves me like Bella loves Edward and to love someone like Edward loves Bella….What do you do when you want to keep safe the one you love? I’m sure You’d anything to keep that special person safe…But What if the only way to keep that person safe is to disappear from her life? To pretend you never met her and that you never existed in her life? Will you do it?....

Would Juliet had lived without Romeo? Would She had married with somebody else knowing that she would never forget Romeo?...No…That’s Why she killed herself when She saw Romeo was dead….And Romeo actually killed himself when He thought Juliet was dead…When you find that special person who can only be one and one only…You will never forget her…
"Shoot," I muttered when the paper sliced my finger; I pulled it out to examine the damage. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. Edward threw himself at me, flinging me back across the table... I tumbled down to the floor by the piano, with my arms thrown out instinctively to catch my fall, into the jagged shards of glass. I felt the searing, stinging pain that ran from my wrist to the crease inside my elbow. Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm—into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. **** For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning... Legions of readers entranced by the New York Times bestseller Twilight are hungry for the continuing story of star-crossed lovers, Bella and Edward. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.

Happy Birthday to me!

Well…I’m 22 years old now. That’s 2 decades and two years of life. It might read as too little time, but it is one quarter of the normal expectancy of life. By now a lot of people that age have kids, are married, own an enterprise, run a firm, well…by now a lot of people have accomplished a lot and I think that’s why I think my birthday is somehow depressing….I always think “One more year…and What have I done?” There are somethings I’m very proud of, like my books ( Not that proud as other people would be, but I’m kind of proud) I think life should be measure in years. Is ok to count them to keep track of time and have a official date to celebrate your arrival to this scary place called Earth…But I rather measure live in smiles, in moments of joy, tears, accomplishments…
I had to admit I had a lot of fun at my Birthday party, but there was nothing special at my actual birthday It was just another day...Well…Almost like a regular day, my parents took me to have lunch to an italian Restaurant and my mom took my to have breakfast to my favorite place...Besides that I was a normal day, phone calls, text messages, and tons of post in that thing that reminds you birthdays “Facebook” ( I love it…Or I would forget a lot of birthday, except for the people that is really close to me) Well…may be I just have the wrong idea that Birthday are supposed to be somehow special and well this certainly wasn’t…I think my best birthday to date was When I turned 21! That was last year when I was in Disney...That was a really fun Birthday! I won’t ever forget this birthday party, It was really fun times are you turning 22 again? I said: Next year I’ll turn 22 again…
Well…when Are u turning 22 again in Mexico?
Well…Never I answered. But I guess She just meant for my party, but on my actual birthday she wasn’t with me today…But well…

I’ve made a lot of pauses while writing this, I made my mind that Birthdays are just another day to remind you You are getting old…Big celebrations happen from time to time, sometimes you organize them and is a kind of obligation for people to remember your birthday and some other celebrations are made by very good friends who take the time to visit or hang out with you…I realized this birthday that the time has come where my friends and people I know are really busy working…But well..I’m sure There’ll be more nice birthdays than my actual birthday haha…

I think what I just wrote doesn’t make any sense..But anyway I posted it...

Guess What?

First of all, I would like to apologize for the lack of updates this week. I have been very busy. I’m turning 21 years old for the second time next week and I’ve been planning a party and buying the things for it.

Guess what? What could be the greatest gift for this birthday besides Britney’s new single?.... Well..I got accepted for the Master of the Fine Arts in Film making at the New York Film Academy. At least my future is not that blurry anymore… It is, will always be. But now I know when I’m leaving to the US and what I’m actually studying there.
http://www.nyfa.com/masters/filmmaking/

Hollywood HERE I COME!

1st Chapter from Joe and the Black Dragon Legend

again, Thnx to Donna Lansing for the correction.

So it begins...

There were two young men. One tough, one gentle. and both were half Wizard. One half Niwan, one half Malgien. Both were trained by the most powerful and wise Wizard of the Magical Word. Zcardus. One was Cankul. One was Joerend. And even when both learned the same and acquired equal abilities, one day Cankul left. And no one, not even when her mother died, knew what happened with him.

Years passed and Joerend became one of the strongest and most powerful Wizards along with Zcardus. Until one not very special year, Cankul reappeared with a new name. Dominant over them all Kukulcan (which meant Serpent Man in Niwan tongue). Not only his physic but his mind had changed too. Contrary to everybody’s ideas, his were mean. He believed in the awakening of Eviles and even thought he didn’t know how to achieve it, he was determined to do it. And this changed completely the Magical World.
He started gathering followers. If someone dared to intervene. Kukulcan killed the unfortunate immediately . He ruled over the Trolls, the Fawcets and the Boogerers, mean creatures of the Magical World. And he enslaved the Morphins in order to build a hut, a castle and a temple. They worked hard for him. The castle was built way inside the magic forest. The hut in a dark community on the east of the Magical World. The temple was built too, but it was never finished. Why did he built a hut a castle and a temple? The reason is still unknown.

After searching it thoroughly Kukulcan finally found Daed Island where Hades and Atenea rested. However he knew he wouldn’t be able to find the temple of the gods, where the other five rested. Unless he found first a special book which dated from time remote. A book that told the true story of the Magical World. The Popol–Vuh.

–Well, Joerend. The future of the magical world depends on you– Zcardus, an slim old man with ashy long hair, told him. They were in a very antique room inside Zcardus’ castle.
–But if he doesn’t find the temple of the Gods first, he would never be able to bring back the Eviles– Joerend answered. His curly hair was up to the shoulder, he was six feet tall and kind of tough.
–Unless we do something fast, he will. He had already destroyed Blissphilum and he’ll be here soon if you don’t prevent it–
–He did?– asked Joerend, amazed.
–He almost did, remember that perfect city can’t be destroyed. Not by a common simple wizard, at least– the old man answered.
–But I…I don’t know what to do– He said puzzled.
–Use your knowledge. You more than anyone else know him well–
–I used to. Now he is a monster
–Even the biggest and most powerful monster has, at least, one weakness
–Zcardus…–
–Yes, Joerend?
–I’m afraid
–Fear, boy, is the uncertainty to the unknown and after all is nothing but a feeling
answered Zcardus.
–Then, I’m afraid of what will happen..–
–You are afraid of what will happen if you fail!– A voice coming from nowhere was heard.
–Who said that?– asked Joerend, scared, turning his head to each corner of the room.
–This is and old castle. You shouldn’t’ mind voices you don’t know where they come from– told Zcardus to him, standing up from the couch and walking towards Joerend.
–But the voice is right…I am afraid of what will happen if I fail
–The future is uncertain, Joerend. But sometimes it’s in you the possibility to change it for better of for worse. Just be sure of your deeds and trust that it will be the right thing for everyone– told him Zcardus, placing his bony hand over Joerend’s shoulder.
–Still... I’m afraid– added Joerend turning around to face his mentor.

Zcardus closed his eyes and keep them shut for a while. In his mind he saw Kukulcan approaching to White City. He opened his eyes quickly and told Joerend:
–Here he comes, go, GO NOW!–
–Bu…bu…b…– stuttered Joerend.
–There’s time for nothing. Go now! Wait for him at the Coliseum.
–But what about you?– he asked while Zcardus pushed him out of he room. Taking him trough a secret magically opened passage.
–I’ll be safe here
–He knows you are the most powerful wizard that has ever existed. Surely he’ll kill you
–I will never abandon the castle. I swear –He rose one hand over Joerend’s head and told him: May the magic protect you– At last he pushed him and close the secret passage.

The secret passage was cold and dark, Joerend’s breath could be seen. He took his wand out of his pocket and whispered Lux. The tip of his wand lighted. Revealing Joerend a never–ending tunnel. Rocks, rats, and corpses were scattered all over the place. He walked slowly, thinking about what he had been told by Zcardus. The voice was right, he was afraid of what could happen if he failed. Joerend found himself unwilling to reach the end of the corridor. He didn’t want to know how will everything end up. He walked slowly. Feeling cold and doubtful.
Finally, he glimpsed a ray of light at the end of the tunnel. He walked faster. Decided to face his future. He knew that as soon as he came out of the tunnel, he would face his truth. A thruth which couldn’t be changed by anyone but him.
At the end his destiny awaited. He walked, decided, moving aside the stone that covered the exit and the first thing his eyes saw was the Coliseum in ruins. He hoped that only the Coliseum was destroyed. He jumped and raised to the sky. From above he realized the entire White City was completely destroyed. Seeing this, he felt his blood boiling inside and yelled: KUKULCAN!– His voice echoed trough the sky.
Not far from him there was an explosion from which appeared Kukulcan.
–Did you call me?– he asked with a cool sharp voice.
–Why have you done this?–
–It was necessary. I offer my most sincere apologies.– he answered sarcastically.
–This people were innocent and you…you killed them– added Joerend feeling angrier.
–Well, they seemed reluctant to surrender. It was necessary to kill them–
–Did you kill them all?–
–Yes, all of them. Not even a single survivor–

Joerend was furious. He rose his wand, pointed it a him, and yelled:
–DOLORUS!– From the tip of his wand a red sparkle sprouted towards Kukulcan.
–Hahaha…is this what that jerk of Zcardus taught you?–He told him between laughter. Joerend snarled, he aimed his wand at Kukulcan and yelled:
–ABRA CADABRA– Kukulcan was shot and fell to the floor. However he stood up without a single scratch and told him:
–You will need much more than in order to defeat me
–HOCUS!– Kukulcan shouted.

Joerend flew trough the air and collided with a destroyed wall of the coliseum.
–My dear fellow and friend, Joerend. Consider this for a moment. We would wake up the Eviles and force them to obey us. We could rule Fantasia. We could control the Magical World. Fire, Earth, Water and Air would be under our command. We would be feared and obeyed. Then the universe will be ours. The most powerful beings over the universe. You and Me. Together. So what’s your choice? Power or death?.–
–I’ll rather die a thousand deaths than join you– he answered rising from the dust.
–Ha. Stupid! Naive! You talk nonsense!. But if that’s your choice. Let it be then. Kanah, Kanah– called Kukulcan.
Trough a destroyed door of the coliseum a huge, black and red stripped serpent appeared. Joerend stood up, release his wand letting it fall to the floor and closed his eyes firmly.
–If you tell me where’s The Mystic Eye you will have a quick painless death. Otherwise you will suffer a slow painful death…am I right, Kanah?– The serpent hissed.
Joerend didn’t answered, not even single thought crossed his head.
–I searched for it in Zcardus’ Castle after I killed him, yet I couldn’t find it. You must know where it is. What’s your choice? The slow–painful or the quick painless–death. One…two…–Kukulcan started counting.
–WAIT!!!!!! I’ll tell you– said Joerend opening his eyes.
–OH! I see you are willing to help…that’s smart–
–ANGELAXUS!!– yelled Joerend extending his arms and the palms of his hands to the front. A mass of blue rays surrounded Kukulcan exploiting afterwards. From it emerged the ghost of Kukulcan.

–Damn you and the rest! But this is not the end I shall return from the hells. Stonger and more powerful than ever. I will get rid of white magic and I’ll rule the magical world. I curse you and all the white wizards, my curse will bring me back to life and I will have my revenge. I shall fulfill my word…This is my curse– Kukulcan swore. The sky turned gray and tempestuous
–Hocus pocus bocus mortus tilitus jokus– he pronounced. A red mass surrounded Joerend. The smoke was asphyxiating him. He could see nothing but Kukulcan’s ghost fading away, until it completely vanished. Joerend felt cold blood running trough his veins, his heart stopped beating then blood stop circulating. The last thing that crossed his mind was: I wish I could stop him, he will come back and I won’t be here to defeat him. I wish my master were here and told me what to do, but no, he has been murdered– He gasped . The last thing his lips pronounced was: By the power the magic has bestowed upon me, I swear…– He couldn’t finish and at last he died.


This was legendary battle. There was no wizard in the magical who ignored what had happened that day at dawn.

The Magical World recovered. But many things that were not supposed to be forgotten were. Blissphilum, the perfect city disappeared. Everything that once existed in there, (temples, relics, books and magical devices) vanished along with it. White City was never rebuilt and its ruins were forgotten as everything that was kept within there.

Kukulcan and Joerend’s last words left great doubt hanging in the magical community. For one side, everyone feared the return of Kukulcan the damned. On the other side, they wanted to know what had Joerend intended to promise before dying. Until one day, not a very special one, the Niwans revealed Joerend’s intended promise. In the Sun Pyramid they carved and drew the hieroglyphics which changed the magical world destiny forever.
“By the power the magic has bestowed upon me, I swear that Kukulcan shall be defeated. Forever, this time. A unique wizard able to defeat him will be born and I will help him”
The hieroglyphics read:

By the phoenix’s song he shall be announced
by nature he shall be recognized
For him shall weep the stars
But as in all good, evil will come along
hand in hand



Not only did the magic scientists found this hieroglyphics, but they found too that the Niwan civilization abandoned all their temples. Leaving behind the table served, the home fire burning, and not a single hint from them.

The news was spread quickly throughout the magical world. Filling the people with joy. Waiting the one day they will finally stop fearing Kukulcan’s return to power.

Years passed. Kukulcan never came back and the one able to defeat him was never born. The magical world forgot what had happened and with the passing of time, most of them began to believe it fantasy and myth. As the history told.

Still there were some who didn’t believed that. Kukulcan’s followers, fewer this time, awaited anxiously for the arrival of his master, and the supposed birth of the child. Determined to kill him as soon as he was born.

Years went by and the magical world evolved.

Until one of the last days of September at the hospital of the capital city Fantasia, an amazing event occurred at 00:00 am on September 29th. An Eclipse turned the sky from night to day for a few seconds, while a mother gave birth. It is said that when the boy was delivered a phoenix crossed the sky high above the hospital, singing and lightning the already darkened firmament. After the song and the flight of the phoenix, the baby cried for the very first time, leading a golden arch to gleam over the hospital.
At the hospital window a young man with curly hair was watching Nature’s performance until a second cry was heard. The golden arch disappeared and the night was invaded by gray clouds, thunders and lightning. The young man withdrew from the window. The sky remained gloomy for a few seconds and then the sky became still as if nothing had happened.
At the hospital door, a strange carriage pulled by two unicorns arrived. From it descended a a tall, bearded man with long white hair, wearing a blue robe. He entered the principal door and closed it. Few minutes later he returned followed by a couple which was inconspicuous in the dark. He opened the door and they entered the carriage leaving the storm behind them in a hurry.
When the carriage entered the city, a group of trolls appeared from nowhere to chase it; throwing their spears attempting to stop it. A blue fire ball flew out from the carriage knocking them down . The carriage turned invisible and remained like that until it stopped in front of a house inside a private in which the carriage turned visible again. The couple and the wizard descended from it and entered the house. They stayed there until late at night. Finally the couple left their home. The beautiful lady, still pale for delivering, holding in her arms a baby wrapped in a blue blanket. They got in a car and flew away from the house.

Prologue

Here's the Prologue from Joe and The Black Dragon Legend in English. ( Special Thanks to my friend Donna Lansing who helped me correcting it)

Prologue

Earth was created, due to the evilness found there, God decided to create a new world, similar to the earth. However its inhabitants were given supernatural magic powers. Everyone there lived in harmony. The races of this new world got along in peacefully in equality.

The Dwarves, were the mine workers and the managers of this world’s resources and riches. Their powers, extended as far as levitation, magical excavation and axe handling.

The Malgien, were one the most powerful and wisest of all the inhabitants of Fantasia; protectors of the forest, the wizards and the magic world. They were forbidden to intervene in wizard’s affairs, and were rarely seen by one of them.

The Tritons and the Mermaids, inhabitants of the magical water world. Its supreme being Triton, king of Sirenia, had the ability to control rivers, lakes and seas at will. He was the Lord of the Oceans.

The Morphins, small talkative animals were created to serve wizards joyfully. They were capable of performing any activity and never complained about it.

The Gnomes, were little beings between eight and sixteen inches tall. They were the workers of the land and handlers of the magical cattle.

The Fairies, as the Malgien, were protectors of the wizards. Each fairy was given a wizard to protect.

The small fairies had largely insignificant magical powers; they were the underground inhabitants of the giant mushrooms and danced by the light of the moon.

The Elves, were clever beings; possessors of the ability to make objects vanish temporarily; mischief-makers dedicated to annoying the wizards.

And finally, Wizards, those gifted with the grace of Magic.


Just as in earth, the tinniest evil spark ignited wickedness. The most powerful demon of the seven hells, Satan, gave extraordinary powers to seven wizards in exchange for their souls.

He gifted Poseidon with the control of waters, giving him powers which surpassed those of Triton’s, the Lord of the Oceans. Aeolo, Master of the Draughts, was given the power to control the air.. Chronus was offered the ability to control the time at will. Hades, ruled over the dead. He gambled with death as if it were merely a game. Tearth was made landlord of the grounds, he had power over the grounds and soils. And finally Athena better known as Atenea, the only woman who decided to sell her soul to the devil. Unlike the others she didn’t ask for power, she asked for a gift. The most outstanding gift of all: Wisdom.

Never again would a soul be the same after being possessed by the devil. With the pact of these seven wizards, The Dark Era in the magic world began. And death came by evil and by good. The Seven Evils started gathering followers, raising witches, and sorcerers; feeling like gods.

Half of most of the magic world was destroyed. They controlled everything. If someone dared to face them, Hades would have cut the string of their lives and they would die.
But, she rebelled, Atenea. She was unable to beat them. Her mistake was not having asked for magical powers such as the others.. Even though they fought as hard as they could; immortal as she was, she could not be killed. So. she was locked up on Daed Island, where she was guarded by Hades until the end.

They reached their glory, but it came hand in hand with their doom. Three powerful Malgien sacrificed their lives in a powerful spell called “The Sleeping Death”. Five of the Seven Evils were trapped in their temple forever. The temple was sealed with a magical charm that only one single wand could break. The wand was hidden, to be found later.
Hades and Atenea perished on the island. Hades was locked in a crypt, “The Crypt of Death”. The devil collected their souls and took them to hell, where they now belonged.

Without the seven evils, the Magic World turned back to its normal state. Still the seed of evil had been planted. And it grew slowly but strongly. Waiting to be sowed.

Little by little everything was rebuilt. New cities were formed: Blissphilum, “the indestructible city”. It was also known as the perfect city. Built and designed by the best architects of the Magic world. Its secrets await now to be discovered. The second, White City the former capital of the magical world; nowadays lying in ruins. Also two new cultures appeared. The Niwans, wise and powerful, seers of the future and The Masters and Mistresses, wise protectors of nature, but less powerful than the Niwans.




Time passed and the Magic World returned to the way it used to be before evilness spread throughout it. The tragedy once experienced was forgotten. It was recorded as history, and from history it passed to story, from story to legend, until it remained a simple mythology; “The Magical Mythology”

Hundreds of years passed until the evil fruit was sown, grew and ripened...

Narrative Statement

Here's the essay I wrote to get into the Master's Program at the New York film Academy. I still haven't gotten anwer yet, but i'm hoping and praying to get in!

Narrative Statement

As far as I remember, I have always been interested in story telling. When I was a child I always loved watching movies. In my imagination I could go to all those fantastic places that movies can take you. I began to grow up and my interest for story telling grew, too. I began writing short stories in my notebooks while I was in Elementary school. When I was in Junior High School I wanted to write a movie screenplay and send it to a Film Company so they would make a movie out of it. I was so naive. I never wrote.
It wasn’t until High School when I started writing again. I took a piece of paper and did a brain storm of ideas I could use to write a book. I had so many ideas in a matter of minutes that I had enough material for several books . I finished my first novel when I was 16 years old. A novel of fiction and fantasy that was my escape from everyday life problems. I finished my second novel when I was 17 years old and my third one when I was 19. It started as a hobby but then it became a necessity. I can not go long without writing .
I knew that making movies was expensive and something I could not do at that time, but writing stories was something free that just required my time and imagination. However, inside me, was the desire to take all of my stories to the big screen. That desire and actual need, has only gotten stronger. I’m hoping to transform the characters who now live only in my imagination, into moving images.
I believe every human is born with a “gift”. Some are born with an impressive ability to play soccer, others are excellent swimmers or have an angelic voice. If somebody asked me what mine is, I would say that it is my imagination. I can make a story out of almost anything. I like this gift and I wouldn’t change it for another.
I finished high school when I was 17. Now it was time to decide what I wanted to study. “Film making” I decided. I love to write stories But I love even more when those stories are told with film images and can even more make you feel a part of the story as If you were living it. I love movies that make you forget that they are films; that make you experience and empathize with what the character is feeling; virtually become part of the story. These great films make you forget about reality for 90 or 100 minutes. Even after having seen them, they live on in your mind and keep you thinking about what you have seen and felt. They open your heart and mind and when they are really good they set fire to your ideas and inspire passion in their audience. I can continue to see, hear and feel moments that were powerful in these films, for hours, days, sometimes years after I have seen them.
I was told to study something else first and then my dad would pay for film school. If that was the price I had to pay to study what I really wanted to do, what I love to do, then It was something I was willing to do.
That’s one of the main reasons I want to attend the New York Film Academy. I don’t want to use another 4-5 years of my life studying filmmaking when there’s this hands-on master who will give me the knowledge I need to have, to be able to direct/write quality films.
Back in 2005 I attended the 4 weeks film making workshop in Orlando, Florida and I simply loved it. It convinced me even more, that film is what I want to do for the rest of my life. And the New York Film Academy is where I want to learn the basics to do it. I fell in love with the whole process.
I admire many film makers, but particularly Steven Spielberg. He has proved that he is not only a successful commercial director, but that he can also make very profound movies. He is one of my favorite directors. But perhaps, even more than he, I admire the Hispanic and Latin film makers like Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro because no matter what their citizenship, they have proved that Mexicans, too, can create great films and become world reknowned in this most fascinating of mediums. I would like to be like them. They inspire me.
I would love to make movies that touch people in the same way that some movies have touched me. I have many ideas that would make perfect screenplays. It is not that Hollywood screenplays are bad, but I believe that they could be better. I feel that they can still make a lot of money and at the same time make movies with depth as well as entertainment value. I see my self in the future writing and directing quality films and becoming a recognized film maker.
The reason I chose the Master in Film Arts program is that I know it is more challenging than the other programs you offer and that is what I need. I need to challenge my self. I need to breathe, eat and dream of film-making. I am committed to doing whatever it takes to become a successful and accomplished filmmaker. I hope you give me this opportunity. With your help and the knowledge and experience that I can gain through your program, I want and need to make magic onscreen; to inspire, move and entertain others with my dreams.

Joe and the Black dragon Legend

Not Is time to talk to you a little bit about my first book. Joe Y la Leyenda del Dragón Negro. (Joe and the Black Dragon Legend)…. I started writing it when I was 15 years old and finished when I was 16. It took me about 2 years. I remember I had always liked writing but I never wrote that much of a novel, just short stories.
One day I decided to take a piece of paper and did a brain storm of ideas and I had several, actually. Enough to write many books. I decided to split the story in 8 parts.
Joe and the Black Dragon Legend
Joe and the Everlasting Night
The Dark love
The sleeping city
Joe and The Island of the Death
The Niwans mistery
Joe and The magic Mithology
And….the last one “untitled”
I began writing the book. I wrote as If I were a witness of the story and were telling somebody else what happened. I outlined the novel, but I wrote as I was writing…I knew what It was going to happened but not how it was actually going to happened. I had a lot of fun writing the novel. I can still remember the songs that would inspire me and How I couldn’t wait to finish it and start writing the second part.

When I got to the last chapters of the novel. I had a kind of writer’s block. And guess what? The ending of the book (If you read if. From the part they get to the Dark Castle to the ending) It all occurred to me in a dream. Same time happened with the book I’m actually writing “The sleeping city” . The whole concept occurred to me in that world where everything can happen.
I finished the book. I was just 16 and I had never been good at grammar nor spelling. So You can imagine my novel. I was full of mistakes. I “Tried” to correct it and then sent it to CBH books (www.cbhbooks.com) A co-editorial enterprise. The answer I got said something like this:

There’s no doubt you have talent, but You still need to work in your novel. You have to rewrite this, change that, delete there.
I remember I got really depressed. It was as if I had waken up from the magical world. I wanted to delete my novel from the computer and pretend I had never had written it. Thank God my friends kept me from doing it. I got over it and continued writing my second novel. “Joe and The everlasting Night” It was then when I decided to shorten the story to 6 books.
Joe and the Black Dragon Legend. Joe and The Everlasting Night. The Dark love. The Sleeping city. Joe and the Magic Mythology. And the last one, still untitled. ( I’m still thinking in many different possible names)
I wasn’t until I started writing my third novel (The Dark Love) When I started correcting the 1st one. I sent it again the same co-editorial and guess what? I got accepted this time! I was so happy!!! The rest is history… Here I leave you with the synopsis from editorial.

In Joe y la leyenda del dragón negro, the author describes a magical world—a place similar to planet Earth—, which is in grave danger. An evil wizard named Kukulcan, who had been defeated by the white magic of Joerend, has sworn to return to rule and destroy this beautiful world. The appearance of the legendary Black Dragon would mark the beginning of this terrible deed. Despite the fear instilled by this promise in the inhabitants of the magical world, they are hopeful because of a prediction made by Joerend: A magician more powerful than Kukulcan would be born to eliminate evil once and for all. The wizards awaiting the arrival of Kukulcan are ready to destroy this infant, whose birth would be announced by the Phoenix. When the child is young, his parents take him to Earth where he would be safe. Who would have thought that Joe, the boy from London who was always fascinated by magic, was the boy predicted to save the magical world? A mysterious door and a mirror that does not reflect come together to help Joe discover his powers. (AVAILABLE IN SPANISH ONLY) José Cardona González, a talented young writer, was born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico on September 29, 1986. He is the oldest of three brothers. His interest in literature began when he decided to create a world where everything people imagined would be real and not just pure fiction. At the age of 16, he finished writing Joe y la leyenda del Dragón Negro (CBHBooks, 2006), the first part of this magical story. He immediately began writing the second part of the story titled, La maldición: Joe y la noche eterna. He has already finished the third book in the series: El amor oscuro. He is currently writing the fourth book, titled, La ciudad dormida. Cardona González is a student of Business Administration at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Upon graduating, he would like to study film, and specialize in direction and screenwriting in order to bring this story to the big screen one day.

I combined a lot of elements from Fantasy, mythology from all around the world, including Mexican.

Here’s the cover.