@cupkeyk
Author of Wing of the Locust (Scholastic Asia Book Award 2018, Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award 2021) Ani ng Dangal 2021 for Literature. Clarion West 2021 cohort. Rimbun Dahan Artist in Residence 2023.
When eating, you go, "this tastes like it was cooked with love."
Buti na lang di ganun sa reading otherwise we'd go, "this reads like self loathing and the dread of being overwhelmed."
Me: I seem to have found my short story niche at 6000-15000 words.
Also me, proofreading myself: I am sick of proofreading, why is this story so long?
Submissions are open until 30 November, with an extended window to 15 December for trans and BIPOC writers.
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I use deadlines to motivate myself to finish projects. Last July, I crammed 60+k words for the Epigram Book Prize.
I didn't get long listed but that's ok. Finishing a novel is a reward in itself.
/Sweetlemons
I have two pending manuscripts for publishers and I was told to expect news in October. And I am have been having a hard time resting because I KEEP FUCKING REFRESHING MY INBOX. I need to calm my ego. Delays and rejections are not a reflection of my skill or hard work. Exhale...
I blame Emily Dickinson for my love of em-dashes
I won't say that these personal essays that push soundbytes come from TikTok culture because I've certainly read preTiktok essays that have these "gems" that make you want to highlight them, or reblog them, turn them into tshirts... But maaaaaaaan, why do I feel like I am walking through sales talk?
Rotc story idea.
5% of population are born with powers and they are obligated to join a reserve forces of the military as a semblance of agency but during times of crises they are mobilized to differing successes.
As an atheist editor, I would occasionally run across Christian fic, and the text tends to explain their faith based realism. I don't see this in Buddhist or Muslim fic where things just happen. I wonder why.
So... My Facebook got suspended and it's not looking hopeful. Si I might as well move to my existing socmed elsewhere
That was yesterday. Social battery depleted. Hybernate.
If you want me to run thus for your class or group, dm me.
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This is the third draft of this workshop. I want to spread simplifying novel(la) planning to as many people who'd want it. I see myself adding more activities and games to pull in participants who might not be as confident in their work.
pinoypageturners.substack.com/p/9-spellbin...
Check out this substack. Let's support our book content creators Kasi they really help in growing our market.
I have an event at the Alfredo Tadiar Library in San Fernando, La Union this Sunday. Things are about to heat up so you will want to be there as at soon as it opens at 10 AM
Alam mo yung "my boss is an inconsiderate slave-driver with no respect for my needs and boundaries" except I am writing, so I am my own boss atm.
PEAK WRITER FEELS: Having my trilogy on the Fullybooked Bonifacio High Street Window.
My newest story, They Wear their Truth like Mobile Battlesuit, pits the Doñas Victorina and Consolacion from Noli Me Tangere as tech powered trans women on different sides of the 1896 revolution, give or take a century.
#fiction #sciencefiction #scifi #sff
Oh my a title reveal!!!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/55...
I have two sets of The Alipin trilogy for sale for 1000 pesos plus shipping
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Snuck a peak at Heirs to Flame's good reads. So far so good.
I love that you called it a tweet
Get started on the Alipin Trilogy for the price of a coffee.
Napakamura. Kumusta naman royalties ko diyan? Nakakaloka.
Ito link ng store:
s.shopee.ph/2qIpDsYgj4
Ngayon din sa Shopee Store #sale #fiction #fantasy #filipino #youngadult #middlegrade #reading
I prolly didn't plan that Livestream well BUT I got to rave about Priest's Faraway Wanderers (Word of Honor on Netflix).
This novel is not novelling. Juskolord. This is due end of July. So help me, universe.
