Back to School, Writing, and Future Plans · 6:43pm Jan 7th, 2018
First off i want to say that blogs ain't one of my strong suites, nor do I truly understand their use on this site; people just seem to use it for anything. But seeing that I have now actually published something I have the urge to at least inform the few following me about things going on.
Tomorrow college begins again, and being a history major, that means that the next six months is nothing but lots and lots of writing and reading. Since school is more important than fictional colorful talking ponies it will cut into writing here. I'll still try my best to publish chapters on a regular bases, thought. At the moment there is only one story I am working on, Odisea Ecuestre, which I am working on chapter by chapter. Which brings up the most recent addition, which I could honestly say could only be described as a disaster of a chapter (as in quality not content), that I am going back and fixing while also working on the next one. I hope to unpublish and then republish the last chapter as there is some serious changes to be made, along with the new chapter to at least show that I am making new stuff, but that will take time. I plan on putting out a chapter every month, maybe more counting on what mood I am in, and as time goes make this a habit to get into.
Writing this post feels wired for me as I prefer to present physical proof of work instead of just telling people to take me at my word, which was in part lead to the rushed and horrible chapter I wrote last. But to at least give those interested in the story some insight, I write this post for.
Thank you for reading and have a nice day.
This blogs are for personal use, so we can vent anything coming into our minds (as long as we don't break site rules) and that include informing followers.
I recommend you to read books while you're in school. That way, you can have a better idea of how to write your stories, after all, I'm certain that there must be people that wrote about the era of conquistadores (although I'm fairly certain that most of them must be spanish speakers) and the like.
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Thanks for the clarification.
I have been reading up on the Conquistadors, both history and story wise. Last semester I took Colonial Latin American history, which got me on this story in the first place. There were numerous books and primary documents that was introduced in class that I have been using for this story. The main books I have been reading, and using as a template, is "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Díaz and "The Ambivalent Conquests" by Inga Clendinnen. The first is an account by a Spanish conquistador, Bernal Díaz, of the Cortes Expedition in Mexico which he was a part of. Its a good read and chronicles the conquest of the Aztec as well as the interactions between the Spanish and the peoples of Mexico (My template for how the Spanish would act in Equestria). The other is about the conquest of the Yucatan and the conflicts between the Conquistadors, the Church, and the Crown.
There good reads, I highly recommend.
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Thank you, I'll keep the names to see if I ever get them.
In my case (besides history books from school) I have a book called "History of the Conquest and Population of the Venezuelan Province" by José de Oviedo y Baños, which I'll check once I finish the autobiography of José Antonio Páez.
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You know there is a book that you might be interested called "Dragon in the Tropics: The Legacy of Hugo Chavez". I'm reading it for Modern Latin American History this semester, as we will be talking about Venezuela near the end of the course. The book was published recently and is a political and economic study of Hugo Chavez time as president. Thought you might be interested since it touches upon some of the things you have talked about.
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Thanks for the book, while I haven't read modern books (I'm focusing on history ones first) the idea of books talking about Chávez is something interesting because it's very hard to cover everything he did.
I wouldn't mind hearing what you find in there to be honest.