Emari Valdicar

I just had to tell my stories. There were times when I couldn't even sleep until I wrote it down in a few pieces of paper or on my laptop. Even as a young boy, I remember recording these stories on this digital recorder and adding special effects to liven the storytelling - crunching grass for walking or water faucet dripping-things like that, and then throughout my middle school years I contributed to the school newspaper, writing articles on taboo subjects no one wanted to talk about.

An outline is crucial, to know where the story is headed, but do not follow it exactly as planned, sometimes a story takes on a different path and that is good as long as all the major points are resolved at the end.