My parents come from interesting backgrounds. My father was the middle son of a self-made furniture maker, who was able to establish shop in rural Philippines. Although life was plain, they had it well enough–my grandfather preached about the values of hard work, discipline, and precision, which culminated to my father becoming an engineer. My mother’s …
I‘m rehashing. I’m being a rehasher. It’s a long weekend and I’m suffering from artistic withdrawal. This is a thing now. It’s a bad side effect of training yourself to meet word counts every day. Some of my friends liken the effect of a “writing day” to a drug. It’s that bad. So I’m twiddling …
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I think my team must hate me sometimes. There we are, going through sales data and brainstorming early in the morning like we always do, and I’m like, “You know what, let’s make The Agartes Epilogues Book 0.5 a thing.” And everyone’s all supportive and cheerful but I’m pretty sure they’re all groaning and going off …
First things first: release day was a blast. And if you haven’t picked up The Agartes Epilogues trilogy over at Amazon.com for $2.99, there’s still time (if you want, that is. You don’t have to.) I found this article last night that I thought was worth sharing: http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/09/ask-polly-should-i-just-give-up-on-my-writing.html “If you’re a writer or artist or creative person and your work …
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I try to stay away from feminist conversations. Not because I don’t have my own set of opinions about the whole situation, but because I’m not educated enough about the various terminologies to accurately portray what I’m trying to say (which more or less comes down to “people can be whoever they want to be”). I know …
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