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December 31, 2019

2019: a roundup

2019 is many things. Like starting new stories. Writing poems in Tagalog. Listening to a lot of local music instead of deciphering another’s tongue. Not writing the things I should have, which I regret (coughcoughNOLIcough). Hitting the brakes on querying

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December 30, 2019

What this decade taught me: the 2010s

There will only be a few rare occasions where I get to write a title like that. No kidding. Maybe this is the only time I could write that. Who knows? In the next decade, I might not be blogging

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December 2, 2019

The Aftermath of Foreshadowing

Incredibly talented writers-editors Nova Ren Suma and Emily X.R. Pan unveiled a Kickstarter project last year under the skin-shaking name of Foreshadow, an online anthology of short stories from new and established writers in the world of YA. I saw

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November 30, 2019

Remember this November

I have been planning to write this post yesterday, the 29th, so I could sit down and vomit an entire month of painstaking resilience and joy I have never seen happen all at once. Which didn’t happen, because I was

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November 3, 2019

The Weekend Closing #153

The thing about this Sunday is when I have pulled out my favorite blue swing dress because I have nothing to wear for church, I found out that there are two giant blobs of bleach stains in the front (therefore

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October 31, 2019

The tall October order

There has never been a month where I was forced to not do things, and be grateful for it. Restraint is a skill I never learned to have, not until circumstances say so, and now, circumstances did. By the first