Istoryan Writers

[galenostiel]

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@IceDragon,

Yep, Rizal Public Library and Museum a.k.a Cebu City Public Library (found out they're one and the same). Naa ni sa may atbang sa Cocomall, which is before CebuDoc if you're coming from Fuente. It's the yellow building with the statue of Rizal. Naa sa ubos ang library, sa taas ang museum.

[radiostar]

nawala lagi akong mga post dire... akong juan pablo stories

[Soul_Captive]

..hey..am i too late to join the group? i consider myself a frustrated writer..not because i don't think i am talented enough (although, i do think so) but more because i never got the chance to develop what i think is a potential (to some degree)...i write because i find it to be the best way to express myself..i write because it is where i can fully make other people understand me and in the process, i learn to understand myself...i am more into the poetic side writing, was not educated enough about literature but can highly appreciate works of art in the form of words..i hope i can mingle with souls who share the same desires that i have..

[galenostiel]

'Tis never too late, methinks.

Right guys?

Welcome to the Istoryan Writer's thread, Soul_Captive. :mrgreen:

[galenostiel]

nawala lagi akong mga post dire... akong juan pablo stories

I think it was mentioned they were moved to the mature discussions board?

[Von!-x]

i just finished reading "Platinum", one short story by F.Sionil Jose. I want to read more later.

[radiostar]

asa nang mature discussions board?

[shaxyra]

it's hidden somewhere

[radiostar]

waaaaaaaa
ngano dile man ko maka access nyahaha
daghan unta ko e update...

modz help tabangi ko pangita sa mature discussions thread

[diem]

Butch Dalisay, writer and columnist, whose articles on the Philippine Star are those that I read often because these keeps me updated on the current trends and thoughts of the writing culture/community here in the Philippines. Sometimes, I'd like to consider him as a mentor even though he does not have an idea I exist.. yet.

Mr. Dalisay also keeps an online blog which he updates with his writings from the Philippine Star. Three such articles of his caught my attention and which I am going to share with you all the excerpts and the link source for further reading...

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Filipino-ness in Fiction : Butch Dalisay's Penman for Monday, October 1, 2007

THE YOUNG entrepreneur Kenneth Yu, who has been bravely publishing a slim but important volume called Philippine Genre Stories (now on its third issue, against all odds), wrote me to raise the question of what makes a work of fiction Filipino. Apparently, this has been the subject of much debate among young writers, especially as it applies to non-realist or “speculative” fiction, as Dean Alfar prefers to call it.

Thanks to a link provided by Kenneth, I’ve been able to peer into some of these discussions, and they display all the understandable anxieties of writers seeking to achieve or claim a certain identity while remaining free to write as they please about whatever suits them. Is “Filipino” determined by material, language, birth, citizenship, place of publication?

I’m not about to adjudicate that debate; I can’t, and I doubt if anyone can. “Filipino-ness” is one of those things that will take more than the six blind men of Hindustan to figure out. But having been asked for my opinion, let me think aloud and venture a few ideas toward an answer. (Read more @ http://www.penmanila.net/)

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Writing for Others: Butch Dalisay's Penman for Monday, September 24, 2007

I WAS asked again a couple of times last week if creative writers can make a living off their writing. And as I have for ages, I again had to say, sadly, no. And it’s true: no matter how brilliant you are, in this country, you can’t make a living from writing poems, stories, and essays, which is what most writers want to do.

You might survive, and even prosper, writing screenplays, komiks, speeches, and biographies, but these genres require not just talent but connections to the industries, networks, and special clients that require them; they also tend to be seasonal, and certainly won’t offer you any social security or retirement benefit. (Read more @ http://www.penmanila.net/)

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Coffee with Artists : Butch Dalisay's Penman for Monday, August 27, 2007

THIS SATURDAY, September 1, the 57th Palanca Awards for Literature will be handed out at the Manila Peninsula, bringing together many of the country’s best writers—at least for this year, and according to some people empaneled as experts in their field. The winners know who they are; the letters have been sent out (does anyone still get telegrams these days?), and informal lists of winners have already been circulating on the Internet. To whomever these fortunate few may be, my congratulations.

At the same time, I was prompted by an emailed letter from a former student to think again about the Palancas and some of their unintended effects. Could it be, my student asked, that there’s a connection between these awards (and others like them) and our inability to produce global blockbusters like Harry Potter?

I had to do a double-take, because if there’s anything the Palancas set out to do, it was to encourage the writing of bright new works. Even granting that J. K. Rowling isn’t Dostoevsky, I can’t imagine any Filipino writer who wouldn’t want to be in her shoes, or to write something—anything—that could reach so many. So why haven’t we come up with something as obviously compelling?

My student’s intriguing hypothesis is that we can’t write big because we’ve gotten used to thinking small, and that awards like the Palancas contribute to that mentality. I don’t think he was against the awards themselves, or the idea of encouraging writers with monetary prizes; rather, he was worried that many young writers seem quite happy to win a few awards—to make their mark, so to speak—and then write no more, or write nothing larger. (Read more @ http://www.penmanila.net/)