Carlos Hernandez had a lot of good advice for our class. A main topic he addressed was digitally publishing work. He mentioned how long poems take up too much space in print form since you are paying for the white space also, but when you publish digitally the price is minimal even if it is a long poem. He also mentioned how you are able to interact with writing on a digital space so that is another benefit to publishing digitally instead of on print. Another thing he talked about was his inspirations. He mentioned how one of his inspirations for one of his poems was a painting and how the painting made him think of how they “would do whatever is necessary to keep living.” He also mentioned how somethings happen in your life that you want to capture and record and majority of the time those are the hardest things you can go through. He also gave recommendations on how to get a writing career started. He said that you should start publishing now to get your name out there. If you submit to a publishing company, they may reject you, but they will also tell you what you could work on for next time. He said to keep submitting work to publishing companies because there comes a point where they will want to publish your work. Carlos also said to attend conventions and build your network because it is all about who you know. I think Carlos coming in to talk to us was beneficial because students in the class who want to pursue a career in writing now have an idea of where to start and begin planning for their career. Him coming to our class also helped connect our class to real world publishing, to me at least. It was cool to hear an author talk about how he get published both digitally and print and how we could start doing that today if we really wanted.