Dear Future Spouse
I’m writing this from my new desk. I’m back to my original work assignment as a news catalog writer. This sucks, but I’d rather have this than be an editor or a thesis writer or a proofreader. The past few months of working as an editor had given me the feeling of being downgraded, like I’m floating or like I’m [...]
The Mixed Martial Art of Writing
In his May 21, 2009 column for The Philippine Star, Isagani Cruz talks about blogging. He says he currently has five blogs, one of which is “terribly active.” This terribly active blog is mainly about his quest to make the literati understand the need for Multilingual Literary Criticism (MLC). MLC, in the simplest sense, is about mixed-language texts — like Taglish, [...]
On Writing
I was about to write endlessly without any edits, as what screenwriter Ricky Lee suggested in one of the exercises in his screenwriting manual. No edits, no nothing – I’ll write as if I’m thinking aloud. But you know I couldn’t afford that. Honestly, I didn’t wanna write anything, I just felt the urge to type down whatever the heck [...]
