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February 17, 2020

The grand, the good, and the giver: a post-Valentines Day gratitude post

Good is greater than Grand. That’s what I’ve learned. That’s what I now stand for. There’s a lot of shiny things in this world — fame, fortune, a prolific social standing, a trophy lover. But if you’ve lived long enough,

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February 8, 2020

Life update: Yes, I’m still drawing

I have always been writing. Nudging my pen to create shapes instead of words has been a challenge, especially in 2019, where I wrote and rewrote the whole year. But now that the tide has ceased, and I am embracing

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January 6, 2020

The Weekend Closing: A New Decade Opens

If I think about it, all prayers are the same. They’re meant for healing, for having, for help. It’s a wish wanting to be granted. No matter how you do it — whether you bawl out your eyes or just

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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