Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Sharing some answers I gave to questions I got from a student interviewing me for their 21st Century Philippine Literature class. When and why did you start writing novels? has it always been something you wanted to do?When I was […]
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I wrote this thread on Twitter in June 2022, and will now add it here. Someone asked on Twitter something like, where are the opportunities for authors who happen to be Filipino but don’t write about Filipinos in their fiction? […]
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I’m starting this series of posts because I’ve been rethinking which parts of social media should I be putting the little things I do that are not yet its own Big Topic. A few weeks ago I had decided it […]
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This was written in 2017 and sent to the subscribers of Aurora M. Suarez’s newsletter. Sharing now in memory of my Lola Z, who passed away on June 20.
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Last week, I moderated an online panel called The Hows of Romance Writing for NBDB, featuring authors Catherine Dellosa, Steno Padilla, and J.P. Adrian. A replay of the session (in English and Tagalog) can be viewed here: https://www.facebook.com/nbdb.phil/videos/347768140667684 We had […]
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This blog is already a recap of my year, so based on that, I can say that I did stuff. Was not lazy. Kept myself busy. The way I work, I’m never just focused on one thing, so I’m all over the place with new projects, new collaborations, crazy experiments. At the same time though, I reminded myself that I had to actually write, so this year I did allocate more hours to writing. The titles above are actually projects I released or finished in 2015, but half of them were started before 2015. And I started writing projects this year that’ll only see the world in 2016. A pipeline! That’s what it is.
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See you on May 29, at 6:30 PM! Will be giving a talk on writing romance at OMF Lit, and it’s free. Details here (see poster, via the OMF Lit Facebook page).
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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 […]
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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 […]
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