Category: Questions
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October, You Sneak
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 when I went out to run again I could not find the morning goose doing…
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A Reading History
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 edit my work or not. Then comes pitching/querying, yadda yadda. Tradpub or indie, marketing, yadda.…
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On Keeping a Notebook (with Apologies to Joan Didion)
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 in teal marker because there was space for a label. It was one of three…
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Mga Natutunan Ko sa Philippine Readers and Writers Festival 2018 Day 1
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 venue dahil nasa Raffles Makati ang festival, at mahuhulaan mong pinaglaanan ng pera ang pagrenta…
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11 Things I Learned in 2011
I won’t deny it. 2011 was a terrible, engrossing, heart-breaking, soul-shaking (I hear a song coming), wonderfully challenging year. But we can always choose to make sense of the things that happen to us by…making life lesson lists. So. Here’s what I learned last year: Your mind trumps the universe. If you don’t think it…