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I felt like I needed to write something because this month has been hella weird in the best way possible but I forgot what it was I wanted to say and so maybe for now I’ll just talk about how…
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Hello, I’m back. I finished the last edits to Pangkantong Gabay sa Pagiging Ganap, a Tagalog novel set in the end-of-the-world hysteria of 1999, and shipped it out to someone who will at some point decide whether they want to…
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(I took this picture in Singapore. It’s a painting by Jose Joya called “A Dimension of Fear.” I saw it and thought, “Yep.”) Sa totoo lang, I don’t really like talking about what happened. Not because it’s painful or shameful…
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I should probably just get over this push-and-pull of whether or not I should go back to blogging by coming up with something first draft-y to get it over with. Yesterday was my 39th birthday, which was as good a…
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I can’t. I can’t explain it to you. I thought I was doing better. I thought I had a grip on it. I thought I had finally acquired the kind of audacity it takes to actually be in the world,…
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I’m 15 pages away from the end of my red comp book, which I have started filling up with three to six pages of fountain-pen-scribbled morning ramblings since June 15 of this year. I have impulsively titled the notebook UNPACKING…
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Kakagaling ko lang kahapon sa unang araw ng Philippine Readers and Writers Festival dahil may katropa akong nasa isa sa mga panel nung umaga, at ang dami kong opinyon. 1. Ang daming pera ng NBS, an understatement Although nakakakilig ang…
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Para sa mga katropang nasasabihang malungkot nang “walang dahilan” I. Paano ba kasi mawala? Isang umaga, ang mawala na lang, nang matapos na ‘to. Ang ‘di maipaliwanag na bigat sa dibdib. Gusto ko na’ng mamatay Ang galit sa kamao, ang hirap…
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So gusto ko lang markahan ang araw kung kailan na-realize ko na mahalaga pala ang pagdesisyunan agad ang framing at POV bago simulang tahakin ang pagsusulat ng isang kwento. Kwento ko lang. So matagal ko na nililigawan ang kwentong ‘to,…
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I once took pride in myself buying 99-peso earphones (the really old Creative ones that play mono because hey no time for a splitter) from the Octagon Superstore and making do until it gives up on me, which is, because…