Got this from the Cheshire Kitten Project:
“Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”
—Isabel Allende
Lately, writing for me (and everything else, actually) has been nothing more than a race to an orgasm. I should just learn to take a deep breath and enjoy the (er-) ride, huh?
Thanks [...]
Dean Francis Alfar is now accepting submissions for an upcoming third volume of the Philippine Speculative Fiction anthology. What’s speculative fiction, you ask? Think surreal. Think haunted. Think mystic. Think worlds within worlds within worlds. Think stories within stories within stories. Think post-modernist. Think deconstruction and reconstruction. Think weird. Think sublime. Think Gaiman. Think, think, [...]
I submitted this to WritingCompetition.com and it actually won something (it’s not Palanca, but well). This is a short short story (less than 250 words) based on an opening line provided (”So now, it’s finally over.”)
Quarter Past Midnight
circa July 2004
So now, it’s finally over.
She knows this because her eyes are starting to focus. The [...]
I used to write for a now defunct inter-university paper that was also a monthly supplement for the national broadsheet Today. [Few remember that magazine, and the ones who do probably wrote for the publication at one point or the other. Oh, well.]
As Section Editor, I occasionally wrote the magazine’s We Said column, a [...]
The following was a requirement for my “Creative Writing: Fiction II” (advanced fiction). This is flash fiction, or short short prose. My teacher was Third Paran. He gave me a flat one (or an A+) for my final grade, and I felt pretty smug. But a year after we graduated, he became involved with my [...]
The following short story was a requirement for my Creative Writing: Fiction class in UP Dil. I’m posting the original draft, plus one of the subsequent revisions (also required). Take your pick (I actually like the first one better). Mia, by the way, is a character based on the real Mia. The voice, on the [...]
I thought I should start by posting some of my old works, circa late 90s and early millennium. Back when I thought I could be a serious writer, I actually came up with some pretty good stuff (though none that particularly made me proud). I’m fishing for comments, so feel free to rip my work [...]
