Page 29 of A Lot Like Adiós

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Fine, you can check mine and let me know what I got wrong.

Gabe:

How is that saving me time to write chapter 2?

Michelle:

Let’s just plan it out now and we can write it later.

Gabe:

Okay. We left off with Zack unconscious on Riva’s ship. Where are they going?

Michelle:

His mom hired her to find him, so Riva will be taking him to Queen Seravida. And I think there should be a tía.

Gabe:

Like the Queen’s sister?

Michelle:

Sure. They’re Latinos in Space TM. You know they’d have lots of tíos y tías. I think you should put one in this scene.

Gabe:

I should? What about you?

Michelle:

You’re better at world building.

Gabe:

Sounds like somebody’s gotten a lot of “include setting details” notes in their Creative Writing class.

Michelle:

I see the details in my head, I just don’t write them down. Is that so wrong?

Gabe:

Since Ms. Shapiro isn’t telepathic—yeah, that’s wrong.

Michelle:

Whatever. You’re still writing this part. And I think it should also be from Zack’s POV, like chapter 1.

Gabe:

So Zack and Riva arrive on this planet, and there’s a random auntie waiting for them there. It’s a big moment. The first time Zack’s seeing his mother again, after thinking she was dead all these years.

Michelle:

Zack’s Latino. He should call her Mami.

Gabe:

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