'Hey thanks for the resource head's up. If you go the traditional route, then yes you have to find an agent to help you connect with a publishing company and they'll hook you up with an editor....|||Hey guys. I'm working on releasing my first novel Souladonis very soon. Souladonis is a young adult fantasy series that has an entire MMORPG world built behind it. The problem is paying for the...|||Hey guys. I'm wondering if any of you have self-published a book and how you dealt with paying for the copyright, ISBN numbers, cover art, and etc. Also, do you sell through Amazon in e-book format,...|||That's something that I've been curious about. Back in my high school days we had Myspace. Yeah, I'm a fossil. How do people start beef online? Is it with facebook? I need more details.|||Someone else mentioned having to see the school psychologist about not expressing herself. Some of the stuff that I've read on this thread is so crazy that it sounds like it could only be the work of...|||By the way everyone, my friend just told me about a documentary called The War on Kids today. It can be seen on youtube. I didn't even get past the part on zero tolerance policy before I couldn't...|||In my school there was the honors program and the regular program. The honors classes were generally harder and the best students were primarily in those. I thought that it was standard practice to...|||hailfire  First off:  http://images.wikia.com/the-house-of-anubis/images/3/30/Preach%21.gif  That  is life as a middle child. People are often dismissive about my acute  middle child syndrome,...|||When I was in the second grade, I took a realistic looking toy gun to school. The safety patrol caught me and ratted me out to my mother. The school didn't do anything to me at all, but my mother did...|||huesos  Thanks for that post. I had never heard the term trigueña before. The picture you labeled morena is basically what I had in mind when I think of the term morena. I wouldn't call a...|||Well I need to marry a Mexican woman then. There is a Spanish Catholic church in town. It's a bit far from my house and I don't know anyone there, so I've never been there. It'd be a good place to...|||Yeah that's the problem. It's such a vastly complicated topic. I won't be able to do it perfect justice since there's an array of different characters with different problems to cover, but I want to...|||The Pageant of World History? That doesn't even sound real. Who would name a history book that? You make your school sound like something out of the movie The Waterboy. Were those the regular...|||Isn't it an socio-economic thing? Since people really look down on illegal immigrants and are quick to think that any person with Latin features might be an illegal immigrant? Also Mexicans are easy...|||Teachers get abused in this country. I want to pull my fro out whenever I hear teachers being scapegoated as if the poor state of our education system is their fault. Being a teacher is a sacrifice....|||Which race would that be? People said some messed up stuff about you. It really degrades them more than you though. People speaking bad about others only shows their self-centeredness and their lack...|||Dude! I just now looked at your profile huesos . This whole time I didn't know that you were a girl. That's a horse of a different color.|||WamphyriThrall  I think I get it. I actually spent three months living in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. There, almost everyone was what one would call prieto. There was only one morena and I kind of...|||Yes it is helping. The character Estefania represents the American born Mexican. She sort of distances herself from her Mexican heritage to shield herself from anti-Mexican insults. Julio is the...|||huesos That's weird. Do you mean black people or just really dark skinned Latinos? You know, there are light skinned Latinos that practically look white like Lucero, then ones with the olive skin,...|||WamphyriThrall  That's very interesting. I can sort of relate to that as an African American as opposed to American Africans. Although I think the situation between Mexican Americans and Mexican...|||Haters gonna hate. You don't seem too bothered by it though.|||Linadami Picking on special needs children is just messed up. Back in high school, one kid whom at one time I had considered a friend, threw a basketball at a special needs kid. I think he had a lot...|||Crono91  Yes practice makes perfect. Do you ever do short stories? Some of the ways that I practice different points of view, voices, vocabulary, and presentation styles is through short stories. ...|||Ah yes the uniforms. I got out a year or two before uniforms became prevalent. I spent 7 months teaching English in France and totally had favorites amongst the students. It's kind of hard not to....|||meltedsorbet Man you make me want some authentic Mexican food. I don't think I've ever had tamales exactly.   How do you feel about Mexican American self-hatred and about Mexican Americans taking...|||Crono91 Congratulations on finishing your book. I just recently finished one myself, but I want to self-publish it so that I can keep the copyright to it. The one that I'm doing research for (topic...|||My white INFJ friend keeps accusing me of not being black. It's starting to annoy me and I may have to get ghetto on her so to speak. I think the reason that she thinks I'm not black is because she's...|||Yeah I know what you mean meltedsorbet . I find it difficult to write from the perspective of female characters. Not that I can't do it, but if feels kind of inauthentic. I don't think that I'll have...|||How about one's that are martial arts/fantasy novels with combat akin to Street Fighter? Bullying is only one aspect of it, but it's a pretty standard experience of high school so it has to be in it.|||Aubbs  I see. That's kind of hard to work into a book though. Do you ever experience this cyber bullying business. Do people burn on each other on facebook? What if a kid got beat up, people took...|||Aubbs  What role do sites like facebook and twitter play in the lives of the students at your school? Back when I was your age, the big thing was AOL Instant Messenger aka AIM. How do people talk...|||I've done some work on composing the character Estefania. I'm open to any comments, suggestions, or corrections. I will do the character Julio later.   Estefanía GonzalezMain Problem: Estefanía is...|||Yeah I know how that is. I live in Nashville, Tennessee. While Nashville is a major metropolitan city, many of the surrounding counties are not. Whenever I see a rebel flag, I worry about getting...|||That is a brilliant idea meltedsorbet . Instead of focusing solely on negative stereotypes, I could also include things that people are not expected to be. And I know exactly what you mean about just...|||Daaang. What happened that made it that bad? Was it bullying, not fitting in, bad teachers or what?   Unlike  a lot of people here, I actually had a few good moments in high school.  In fact, my...|||If she meant college, then I could agree. Wait, you're English aren't you? I noticed you say mum. I mean university. Uni is awesome.  When people ask why are you quiet, you should tell them, We...|||Yeah I'm like that too. It everyone were then we'd have world peace overnight. Are you a Type 2 in the Enneagram?|||AriesLilith  Wow, that is some racist stuff. Although I find it ironic that the Portuguese are trying to call a Chinese person stupid. They had better check the current state of the world again....|||No, she's a normal lesbian, but a cross dresser. The strangeness of the way she speaks and dresses distracts people from the fact that she's a lesbian.  ...She's a normal lesbian? What am I talking...|||huesos No Samuel a.k.a. Samantha Mae West is an openly lesbian student who dresses and speaks like a 1920s gangster. She figures that if she displays a weird eccentric personality, then people will...|||But it is the purpose of the book is what I am saying. Samuel the LGBT student gets made fun of for being a lesbian, Lee who is Korean and has aspergers gets called a chink amongst other things, the...|||huesos Well see there, that's exactly why I thought that I had better ask. I've known people from Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Spain, but I don't really know any Mexican people. But as this story is...|||Yes good point. It's a school with a lot of international students. Technically, they wouldn't get too much grief based on ethnicity. But that's technically. The point is to mirror the actual...|||I'm doing the planning work for a novel that I will soon be writing about the misfit students in a high school of applied martial arts. There's fighting and energy blasts and all that stuff, but...|||Hey thanks. I took a lot of that down. Back in my day (2003), we didn't have the facebook, or the twitter, wifi cellphones, or all of this other newfangled technology. Shoot, back then we still had...|||If it makes you feel better, I was once the suspect of a bomb threat in middle school. But it wasn't me, it was one of the other quiet kids.|||You had to go to the counselor's office for being quiet? I get what you mean by labeling. By segregation are you referring to different cliques or like to literal old school racist segregation? I...|||What was so bad about Jane? Thanks to you I now have Tom Petty's Last Dance with Mary Jane stuck in my head.|||Do you mean that you pretended to be more like everyone else rather than being your true self? What do you mean by not becoming what you could have?'