Fire Starter at White Day High

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Extra: Trivias

• Lucas Martin's name came from my obsession on guitar playing and love with the Martin Guitar. Lucas was a name that I fell in love with from the novel I have read about a Spanish boy and an American girl falling in love with each other.

• Being in love with that Spanish-American love team, I decided to create a story back when I was at 1st year High School trying to mimic that Spainish boy and American girl format. That's how I get the Blaze name.

• The Blaze from my first story (the Spanish) actually had a surname called Cunanan, and when spoken with a Filipino citizen, will sound uncannily like Blaze Cunaman, or in English "I'm fast." Just to make fun of his name.

• I came up with the Harper when I tried creating comics, and I has this character named Blaze, since I hadn't really had the chance to continue that novel since I know no Spanish. I felt like if it'll be a comic, Cunanan won't be the suitable surname. Then, I came up with Harper, since I like the way a Harp sound.

• Doll Nova was the actual name of the American girl that was Blaze Cunanan will be dating on the first story I was writing. I came up with different names for her and I ended up Doll Nova since it sounded more realistic. I didn't edit her name when I decided to put her name into this novel.

• The names I came up before finalizing it to Doll Nova was Doll Dalnova, and Dolly Anmo. Just like Blaze Cunanan, it was supposed to sound something when read by Filipinos. The first one being "I'm to talkative" or "I'm to mouthy," and the other one was "Hurry up."

• I soon realized that Dolly Anmo being hurry up and Blaze Cunanan being I'm fast suited their partnership so well, so I decided to let that be for a certain while before I drafted to first chapter of that Spanish story.

• Moon was actually the name of Blaze's cousin in the Spanish novel I was writing back then. I left his surname blank since I can't think of something that will sound something when spoken by Filipino, but I think Moon was a nice name, so I leave it blank back then. With this story, I made him Martin as well, since Lucas and he were cousins.

• All the other names like Nath, Scottie, Winter, Ghaile were all from that Spanish novel as well. Since I'm not good at creating names, I decided to recycle them too since that story wasn't finished.

• I made this Fire Starter at White Day High story back at January 2020 when I was so intrigued with my subject Creative Writing. My teacher said that I excelled at that subject so I try to make my own story to test if I can really make it.