Arms and more… (meaning a new story)
I haven’t done a #postaweek post in a very long while, which sort of defeated the purpose of joining that challenge. I am an epic fail in doing weekly blog posts *deep sigh*.
Anyway, continuing my love for Christina Perri, I am starting to love a couple of her new songs off her lovestrong album: Arms and Penguin. Of course, there is Bang Bang Bang and Jar of Hearts (which had a separate blog on its own) which I super love even way before the album was released. For the video of Arms, please see below:
I loved the lines: You put your arms around me and I believe it’s easier for you to let me go / I hope that you see right through my walls / I hope that you catch me coz I’m already falling / I’ll never let our love get so close / You put your arms around me and I’m home ♥
Such a sweet, sweet song :)
I have to do another entry on Penguin, but maybe when she comes out with an official video of it. Haha.
Anyway, somewhere between heading home and watching Mara Clara (I am screwing up my timelines, thank you), I decided to release one more story. Tease. I think I won’t do any effort in promoting this. I just want to get it out there just so it can move on already. I started this story back in 2009. Yes. Two years and it still isn’t done! Well, it’s mighty long, so…
Just check back on this blog to see updates. :)
Love,
Kessica.
New Story: Mamihlapinatapais
Hey everyone,
Yey, new story! :) I wish I could do this — release a story monthly if there’s no ongoing story. Anyway, to see what Mamihlapinatapais (sige nga, sige nga — say it with me?) is all about, read on:
Keala and Ian: neither one is a stranger to the other. The stares they shared, the stolen glances—no one knew something would happen. But someone decided to start something. Was it worth the risk?
The chapter list is here:
- Prologue: Handmade Coupon #8
- Chapter 1: It started with a tweet.
- Chapter 2: Are we still two scared, non-committal, single people?
- Chapter 3: Oh the first time.
- Chapter 4: A Need-You-Now Call.
- Chapter 5: I Should Have Seen this Coming.
- Chapter 6: Are we ready?
PDF download is at the end of chapter 6. PDF download will also reveal who the story is dedicated to (although it is also written at the end of chapter 6).
Hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you guys think :)
Cheers,
Kessica
P.S. I saw the term mamihlapinatapais over the tumblr of a schoolmate, Rachel. Thanks for the inspiration :)
Coz there are stories that are better left hanging.
It was last December when I released No One Will Ever Get Hurt. I got reviews that it is bitin. Some are asking what happened to Casey, what will Richard do, will they get back together, etcetera. Frankly, I spent the next days after I released it (and up to New Year, actually), thinking about how to go along with the story. I came up with more than ten scenarios as to what will happen to them, started to write, but… nothing came out.
There are some stories that are just better left hanging. There are some books that I’ve read that had just gone sour when a sequel was added. Or the story wasn’t as good as the first. Or the writer just mysteriously lost his/her touch with the characters and his/her heart just wasn’t in it.
That’s the case with this story.
I started it off, but I immediately know it’s not going to turn out as good as the first (if the first one was even good, but that’s entirely a different story). One of my avid readers, Ate Faye, told me that it’s better left that way, or–if in the event that I want to come up with a sequel–it has to be written… after a long time. Maybe when the time is right or something. But just right now, the story is good on its own.
Is this weirdly applicable to real life too? Like there are just some “stories” in our lives that are just not worth continuing, or that it’s not the right time to continue the story?
Anyway, just so I can confuse you even more, I’m posting here the scenarios I came up with when I was brainstorming with me, myself, and I (I am cliquish like that, haha).
MAJOR SCENARIO 1: WITH BABY — Casey’s baby is actually… well, she gets to give birth to the baby. (Click the picture to make it larger, or mouse over picture, right click, open in new tab)
MAJOR SCENARIO 2: WITHOUT BABY
So… there. For any readers who are expecting a continuation to No One Will Ever Get Hurt, maybe not this year. In the meantime, maybe we can all just vote which scenario will turn out best? Haha. :) ♥
Road Block Announcement
Just a couple of notes for readers of Road Block:
- Voting ends February 4, 2011, Friday, at 10PM. So vote, vote, vote :)
- Starting next week, chapter updates could just be one chapter per week. Keyword there is could, so it actually depends on my low EQ level. I could finish the story this weekend and just upload everything by next week [Hey, Roadblock can be my birthday story! haha] :)
- By the looks of it — it could end by Chapter 25. A few more weeks!!! :)
So there. Vote. :)
Love,
Kessica ♥
Christmas Story: No One Will Ever Get Hurt
Hi everyone!
Let’s take a break from Road Block, shall we? In lieu of posting new chapters for Road Block today, I posted a new story entitled No One Will Ever Get Hurt. This is a song actually by A Rocket to the Moon, a bonus track from their album On Your Side. And though this story’s ending is far from being Christmas-sy, I hope you all like it. :)
You may read the story–all 11 chapters–here.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
Kessica
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*PDF copy to follow.
**Please do try and guess who inspired this story. :)
UPDATE: The title is taken from one of A Rocket to the Moon’s songs, No One Will Ever Get Hurt. Apologies for not crediting them earlier.
So… what’s next?
So after Confessions of a Basketball Addict has finally been put to a close (after a very long time, if I may say so), what’s next for this site?
Well, for one, I have been putting off renaming the website (and eventually transferring it to another username: kessicatanglao.wordpress.com) for a year already, but then again why change sparksfire when it works and when it’s unique?
Another is that by December 1 (Yes, that’s next week–next Wednesday, if you want to be on the dot), I will start releasing episodes of Road Block. If you’re wondering where Road Block came from when it wasn’t in this list, well, it is actually in the list–just in another name. Its first title (when I wasn’t creative enough) is It’s Over. I’ve revisited it and weighed by options. This one, albeit a bit challenging, is easier to write over Lie. Initially, about 108 pages of Road Block has already been written, but I reworked it and did some major overhaul due to the introduction of one other character, Steve. So technically, I started from scratch after Chapter 1. Don’t fret — I’m already 50 pages on the way (and I’m just on Chapter 10). Maybe once I started to release chapters, you’d understand why it’s challenging to write. :) You can see the preview here.
Hopefully no hiatus and no writer’s block will impede the progress of this story. I’m actually loving writing it–so much so that I am willing to give up hours of sleep just to do so. Haven’t felt this way ever since My Ball Game, so hopefully I am sending good vibes to the way of Road Block.
So there. I know I still owe you a bunch of stories — Lie, Cut, the part 3 to Evey and Justin’s story, and My Ball Game’s Part 2 — and I promise to work on them. I’ll get there, one story at a time.
Thanks again to those who read my stories and my blog.
Cheers! :)
Confessions :)
Heya guys,
Apparently if I would just upload Chapter 22, it’ll be bitin, so I uploaded 23 as well.
What you see in the two chapters are a product of after-work brain cells (meaning I wrote these after midnight), so I hope they’d do me and this story justice.
You may read the two chapters by clicking on the links below:
Enjoy!
Love,
Kessica Tanglao :)
Love The Way You Lie – Video
Check out the video of one of the songs that inspired Lie (and will also be a part of it, actually):
Love Eminem. Love Rihanna. Love the song. Love the video :)
Teaser: Lie
Hi everyone! :)
A few days ago, one of my avid readers, Justin, “checked” up on me and on any updates that I have on this site. I remember telling him that I am pretty much busy as work consumes pretty much all my waking hours (at least 15 hours a day), and when I get home my mind is too drained to actually produce anything. Anyone who follows me over at Twitter would know this. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on anything. I am halfway through Chapter 21 of Confessions of a Basketball Addict, and you will meet Anya there. Who she is, I won’t reveal just yet. :)
And I am also working on two stories which corresponding plots just won’t leave my head. One of them is tentatively entitled Lie, and here is a sneak peak of this story (the entire chapter 1, basically, haha):
By my bedside, in my Aldiko… Current reads:
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