Toward the best E-Zine: Tau Zero

One day, when I was 15 years old, I was watching on television a newscast made for young people. It was broadcasted by Canal 13 and it name was "6 P.M." In that chapter , the presenter, Soledad Onetto, invited a young girl who was becoming connoted in the world of Harry Potter`s fans clubs. Her name was Francisca Solar and that was the first time I knew about her.

That news talked about the amazing success of a book written by Francisca. Her work was specifically an "e-book", it means, a new kind of novel accessible only trough Internet. That book was called "Harry Potter y el Ocaso de los Altos Elfos" and it was an example of the new trend between the fan clubs: create own versions of the original productions; make fan´s movies, fan´s comics, and like Francisca, fan´s books.

Today, those fan´s books have been called "fan fictions" or "fanfics". Untill that day, I have never listened anything about "fanfics", but I loved (and I still love) the Harry Potter books, so I felt the need of knowing more about Francisca Solar and the "fanfictions".

Few minutes after the program had finished I found the page where Francisca had published her fanfic. Sadly, the page was collapsed of visitors so I couldn´t read what Francisca Solar had wrtitten. I couldn´t read that, but I preserved the hope to find more fanfics in Internet so I started a hard search that took me to a page, about Science Fiction, called UTOPIKA. In that page I met for the first time a style of interaction with other cybernauts: the forums.

I didn´t use to "sail along internet" so much, but since that day I can not stop taking part of discussions or debates in diverse forums and blogs.

One day I entered in UTOPIKA and I discovered that it had been removed because the admininistrators had embarked in a more ambitious project: make a virtual magazine or an "e-zine". The name of the magazine was Tau Zero and untill today I can´t stop checking it and taking part in it. It e-zine is about science fiction, fantasy, literature, movies, comics, science, tv-series, it means, all what I love. Tau Zero is my favourite page.

In Tau Zero I knew about a lot of more prolific writers. As prolific as Francisca Solar, but about a lot of more variety.

In this link you could find Tau Zero, the best chilean e-zine:

http://www.tauzero.org

My Notebook: almost a therapy

My notebook. Definitively the notebook is my most loved piece of tecnology. In this electronic device I can practise the activities that I really enjoy. I can do wathever I want to do.

When I have freetime, the first thought that comes to my mind is "My notebook! Now I can loose my time doing all I was waiting for "

I love writing, reading, listening music, and watching movies.

I could look for a pen, a paper, a comfortable desk and start some writing: a story, an university´s work, anything. Then, I could choose any compact disc of my collection, go to my stereo, put the disc on the player and listen my favorite music. If I get bored doing that, I could take a great book and read for some hours and, finally, select my best movie, put this on the DVD player, look for a good seat and enjoy the movie. I can do all of that.

But, with a notebook I can listen music, watch movies, write tales, even play videogames. Al that in the same time.

With my notebbok i dont need any more. Is almost a therapy. I love my notebook.

Welcome!

You are reading this, so I can see there are three possible features in you. You belong to the same english class I am, you are interested in my personal life, or you are really, really idle. Actually, I hope your alternative is the number two because this blog will be like a memory box. In this space you are going to find the edited or eliminated scenes, alternative endings, deleted characters and the making of the script of my life.

A life that began nineteen years ago in Miraflores clinic, Viña del Mar.

My first years I lived in Cerro Alegre, Valparaíso, my best years in Quilpué and, now, I distribute my days between my loved fifth region and my studys in Ñuñoa, Santiago.
I enjoy writing things as this one and some texts a bit more interesting. Well, that´s what I should do like a student of Journalism.
I admire what compatriots like Jorge Baradit, Francisco Ortega, Alvaro Bisama, Francisca Solar S. Meier and a lot of more, have achieved.
If I´m not watching fiction, I am creating. When I don´t do it with my mind in the seat of any Transantiago´s bus, I am using the keyboard of my notebook.
I use to loose my time with "Condorito", Marvel, "El chavo del 8", "Big Bang Theory", "Harry Potter", Isaac Asimov and "Lost".
Sometimes I try to watch it in English to practise. I understand the importance of handling that language and that´s the reason I´m not writing all this in Spanish.

However, I love my own language and my priority is to perfect myself in it.