New #romanceclass lecture, 4Q 2018
Archive of ‘Writing’
New from #romanceclass: FLAIR
If you follow me and #romanceclass news on social media, you’ll be seeing a lot of this in the coming months. FLAIR (or #romanceclassFlair) is a new, ongoing project to release steamy contemporary romance (in English) by Filipino authors. There […]
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How to get a free copy of the #romanceclass textbook
In 2013, I facilitated an online class, and gave them resources to write a chick lit/contemporary romance novella. I collected the “lectures” (posts sent to the group) and made a little textbook out of it. This year, I updated the […]
continue reading...Feisty, flawed and all
It’s rare now that I’m in a position to read or edit someone else’s story before publication, but if I am, I tend to champion the “feisty female main character.” Feisty of course could mean anything from quirky to flawed and whatever else comes in between.
I like female characters who are a bit…out there.
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Question: Have you ever disagreed with what your editor commented about your story? Do you follow all their comments?
I’ve been getting questions sent to me through email, Wattpad, and Ask.fm. I think I’ll discuss some of them here on the blog too.
I’ve worked with at least five editors (and a few more beta readers) since I began writing and publishing, and yes, it still happens that I disagree with their comments. Sometimes. 🙂 I cave of course to anything factual, grammar-related, or lapses in logic in my story. Those I definitely work on, immediately.
continue reading...#SparkNA starts April 6
If you follow me on Twitter, you’re going to see me use the hashtag #SparkNA. That’s because my new online class, this time sponsored by Anvil’s Spark Books imprint, is starting on Monday.
continue reading...How I write my books with limited writing time
No one really has time to write.
There are other things we could be doing. I won’t even list them down because that’s just the reality of today — we all have other places we should be, things we should be doing. If you want to write, but think that the only time you can start is when you are free from your other responsibilities, then it might never happen. Because when really will the responsibilities stop?
And if you never start, then that’s too bad.
What I do instead is find out when I will have time to write, and maximize it. When I was writing No Strings Attached I wasn’t a mom yet, but I was working, and had thirty minutes at the end of every workday. I wrote most of that book during that time.
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#buqoYA: Another class ends! You are all awesome.
photo from facebook.com/buqoapp It’s all the same, but different. #buqoYA is a class similar to #romanceclass, #buqosteamyreads, and #flirtsteamyreads before it. It was mostly online, and you didn’t have to go to the meetups or face-to-face classes. It’s got a […]
continue reading...Workshop and training update
Print book formatting and affordable printing, with co-facilitator Tania Arpa, February 28, O2 Space Makati. Sign up here: bit.ly/learnprintpub After February 28, we are conducting training based on requested schedules only. Choose your schedule here, if you’d like us to […]
continue reading...Things you can join, do, and buy
Hello! You might have read the article about my work in the Philippine Daily Inquirer today. If you’re a writer in Metro Manila/Philippines and want to participate in the workshops, here are some signup forms: Ebook formatting and publishing, Jan […]
continue reading...About Mina
Mina V. Esguerra writes contemporary romance, young adult, and new adult novellas. Through her blog Publishing in Pajamas (minavesguerra.com), she documents her experiments in publishing.
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