Why I Write….

Because as I see and feel both pain & love, I want and need my experiences to become words that exemplify the beauty in both –  – Natasha Guadalupe

Penetrating The God of Walls

By: Natasha Guadalupe Lasting for an instant, today and tomorrow. Oshun’s warm waters flowed over the steep tower’s edge. Empty corridors swelled, as amber ripples swam. Adorned and rich. Palpitating against its gates Primroses ignited. His thirst quenched. Eroding its structure, dissolving its defenses, Oshooon….went her waves, seeping trough hidden chambers, where casted dreams and

‘The ringing bells of the piragua cart…

‘The ringing bells of the piragua cart clicked clacked down the cobbled stone streets of Casica Blvd. They chimed the ugly truth that began to penetrate his mind. It seeped through his skin like the cherry stained lips of school children licking the shaved mountains of ice. Each sparkling flake of snow flying out into

Writing By Hand

I didn’t have my computer at the cafe last night, so I wrote…..by hand, with my best pen in my worn spiral notebook…. It felt good. FYI excluding a few cross-outs its a really good way to not self edit (which I suffer from…badly) You can’t really go back and erase…you’ve got to keep moving.

‘The warmth of the water….

‘The warmth of the water caused the wet cedar planks to slowly perfume the air with the sweetness of flowing sap. Looking above the clearing of the cabin, the tangled branches seemed to reach up to the distant stars creating a jagged picture- framing both the night sky and crescent moon. The late hour was

Some Of The Tools I Use

Tools of the trade.. Books I’m reading to inspire and help structure my story (Oh yeah-that’s my bike helmet and doggie biscuits in the background..the essentials) BOOKS TO INSPIRE ‘Tinkers’ –  Fiction Novel By Paul Harding ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Short Story By Annie Proulx. My absolute favorite short story.  But I mostly have it near me

RESEARCH… Visiting the Bronx VA Hospital

Story boarding isn’t just for the movies….

  Now the question is can I read my handwriting…hummm?

SEX LOVE AND WRITING

…..OK, so I want to incorporate a love scene into my story….Not wanting to use the language of smutty romantic novels and sugar sweetness of Twilight’s pillow biting scene, I’m doing a bit of research. Just how did the great novelists of our world go about adding sex and love into a story? Well here

‘Trying to focus on the sleepy warmth of his son’s body…..

‘Trying to focus on the sleepy warmth of his son’s body and the steady pace of his breathing, Juan wished for more time and more moments such as this.  Instead, his thoughts drifted to the beginning when the decision was first made, when the decision to be alone would affect both his and his son’s