The Elisean Plains

Kagabi, or kaninang madaling araw, pabaling-baling ako sa higaan kasi nakikipag-debate sa ‘kin si Apollo Marasigan na unahin ko na raw siya at gawing Sentinel #8. Dahil mahal ko siya, at dahil hindi ko pa sigurado kung gusto ko isulat ang dapat at original Sentinel #8, nag-isip ako ng heroine para kay Paul. Alam ko [...]

“Why wouldn’t you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself. It’s far more interesting to write about others.” Susan Sontag Paano ba kayo mag-develop ng characters? Base ba sa iyong pagkatao? Base sa pagkatao ng mga kilala ninyo? Base sa mga taong gusto niyong maging? Kung ako kasi ang [...]

Okay, so I’m supposed to be writing about Jordan but I ended up going online and doing a quick little research on a background I’m building for Mac whom I’m not supposed to work on yet because I still have Dan and Wesley, then three other Sentinels whose stories go before his. But since I’m [...]

I thought I still has about five thousand words to go before I get to 50K words, but when I did a word count, it turned out that after the paragraph that I started about thirty minutes ago, I officially have 50,064 words and NaNoWriMo 2009 has officially been won *throws confetti* *happy dancing* *collapses* [...]

It’s only a week before November, which means we only have seven days before NaNoWriMo! NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is what I’ve been doing every year for the past two years on November. It’s when people (writers, professional or not, talented or not hehe) all over the world write like crazy for thirty days [...]