Istoryan Writers

[IceDragon]

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who is that girl?

[crystselene]

who is that girl?

daghan bya girls og mga pa-girl diri...

[crystselene]

try nako join sa mga contest...YAHOO!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

hehehe...

[diem]

@crsytselene, good luck po!

The Stuff Dreams and Lives are Made of. Why I write what I write, Part Two.

I simply love stories. I love coming up with stories, making up characters, developing plots and twists then working towards the endings. I have read stories, listened to stories and watched stories. I am a writer primarily because I love stories.

How did it all begin? It was only in recent years that I could really pinpoint the exact events that inspired me to be a storyteller writer.

It was in my childhood and often at night when my mother would usher me and my brothers to bed. Instead of beguiling us with lullabies, she would often tell us bedtime stories. Not beautiful fairy tales of Damsels-in-Dresses and Princes a-Charming but of dark, real tales of strange things that go bump in the night. Of Ghosts and Goblin dogs, of Wakwaks and Kikiks~

Terrifying things, terrible things and she would make it real by involving herself or another family member or a family friend to experience the chills and horrors.

As a child, I would be frightened but exhilirated at the same time~ I would close my eyes tightly and fall to sleep as soon the story is over as quickly I can if only for the night to pass faster in order for the day to come.

Yet from since those bedtimes, until to the times I would read on my own~ I would always fancy stories more than any other written material.

Here are the literary forms I am most fond of:

1) Short Stories.

I enjoy reading and writing stories because of all the literary forms I believe these reflect life best.

How come?

What is life but a collection of short stories that we make and we keep in memory?
It is boring to observe a person's normal routine. We'd want to get on to the juicy parts of a life; The first love; The first hate; The first kiss; The last kiss; The great miss; and the great win.

Life is made of moments; we remember the best and the worst. Like favorite episodes. And these are basically in short story form.

And what a variety one can have with a short story! Genres to pick from like parts of the Vegetable/Fruits section. Horror, Adventure, Fantasy and more more. You can mix it up into chop suey or a fruit salad! Yum!

And its quite challenging to fit a lot in a bit. Where everything is less is more. And the authors that I consider most influential to my being a writer are often short story writers: Conan Doyle, Lovecraft, Poe, Kipling, King, and O.Henry. I also favor Joaquin and Reyes.

And these writers assumed a body of greatness using small steps called the short story.

2) Scripts(Plays, Teleplays) and Screenplays.

I find that the easiest way to write a story is through a script. The descriptions is general. The characters are simple in their depiction. It's the Action and the Dialogue that solidifies the entire thing so the only thing you got to worry about.

It is really easy once you get the knack of it.

3) The Novel

Ah~! This is something I still have yet to achieve as a writer. A novel. That is why I am most fond of it. It is a challenge that I still have to conquer and that's alluring to me. It's my El Dorado, my buried treasure, my Path to the Stars. I have the map to direct me, the skills to get there but it'll takes more than these for me to accomplish this and it really excites me-- it draws me like the moon to the tides-- it calls to me constantly, taunting, teasing, pleasing, leading...

I will one day write the Novel, my novel~ It'll be like a child long wanted, the ritual completed but its no conclusion, no ending~ only the beginning.

Only the Beginning.

[diem]

6th Barlaya Writing for Young Adults Workshop

The 6th Barlaya Writing for Young Adults Workshop, sponsored by Adarna House and the Filipinas Heritage Library, shall be held on September 6 and 7, 2007. Ten fellows shall be chosen on the basis of their literary work.

Guidelines for prospective Barlaya fellows:

> The workshop is open to all Filipino citizens.

> All submissions must consist of
a) 2 sample chapters (not more than 20 pages);
b) a story synopsis (not more than 3 pages in length) that includes details regarding the plot, characters, and any special twists the story might have; and,
c) a 1-page bio-data of the author.

> Submissions may be in Filipino or English.

> All submissions must target readers within the age range of 12-18 years old.

> All submissions should be typewritten on short bond paper, double-spaced.

> All submissions must be original and unpublished. If the entry has won an award, please indicate this on the first page of the entry.

> Four (4) copies of each entry should be submitted, enclosed in 1 long, brown envelope. The envelope should be labeled with the author’s name as well the phrase, “Submission for the 6th Barlaya Writing for Young Adults Workshop.”

> Prospective fellows may send in more than one (1) entry.

> All entries must be sent through snail mail or parcel service to Adarna House, 2nd Floor, FSS Building, 20 Scout Tuason St. corner Scout Castor St., Quezon City.

> All entries must be received by Adarna House no later than 5:00 p.m., on July 2, 2007.

> Successful fellows shall be notified by August 17, 2007. Submissions that are not chosen for the workshop, must be claimed no later than September 21, 2007, from Adarna House, after which they will no longer be the responsibility of the organizers.

[IceDragon]

daghan bya girls og mga pa-girl diri...

ma o ba? ngano kahibaw man ka? pa girl2x ra ka no?

[diem]

WHAT WRITERS SAID ABOUT WRITING~


Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. He is perhaps the best known of a group of writers and friends who came to be known as the Beat Generation. Kerouac's best known works are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur and Visions of Cody.

He is now, however, considered to be one of America's most important and influential authors. His spontaneous, confessional prose style has inspired numerous other writers and musicians.

He called his style Spontaneous Prose, a literary technique akin to stream of consciousness. Kerouac's motto was "first-thought=best thought", and many of his books exemplified this style.

To do Spontaneous Prose, Kerouac said one must remember:

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr[sic] own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside your own house
4. Be in love with your life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yrself[sic]
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr[sic] morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr[sic] experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr[sic] exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

Mindless thoughts, anyone?

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Truman Capote (30 September 1924 died 25 August 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognized literary classics. He is best known for the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (195.

Of the short story, he said:

Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has divined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right. (Capote, The Paris Review, 1957)

[IceDragon]

malingaw ko sigeg kani na column.

[diem]

This topic thread is for those iStoryans who write for a living or for leisure, who are avid readers now wanting to become ardent writers. Through this phase of your evolution, let this thread be your guide into the basic and advanced aspects of creative writing.

Please feel liberated to share your experiences, post articles of personal prose such as essays, biographies, and short stories for others to view and review.

This is also for iStoryans who just want to enjoy good original literature and literary efforts. Please feel free to share your comments on the works here, both past and present.

Please remember to critique politely, if not positively, as to foster and guide others' potential and passions.

News and events of the writing world both local and international, writing tips, guidelines, seminar schedules, contests, and grant announcements will be posted regularly in this thread.

The Work of a Thousand Words begins with the First.

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Author, 96, proves it's never too late

By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press Writer

BRICK, N.J., USA - Into his 90s, decimated by the loss of his beloved wife, and alone at night with the memories of a rough and sad childhood spent battling an alcoholic father and vicious anti-Semitism, Harry Bernstein decided to write.

What started out as almost a form of therapy eventually turned into a book called "The Invisible Wall" that chronicles his childhood in a northern England mill town and — considering that it wasn't published until he was 96 — serves as an inspiration for aspiring authors.... [i](Read more on online source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070401/...irst_book_at96)

[IceDragon]

naa unta ko'y i upload karon na story gi suwat nako pero walay Disk sa akong PC. Naa man gud ko ron sa
internet cafe. Maybe next time...