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wtf! i used to get $6 per 'how to' article back then. but $2 dollar per story? creativity is worth more than that

i think it all boils down to this fear of the church: family planning = decline of overpopulation. less people = less believers. less believers = less contribution of the people for the church.

*contribution can either be financial or faith

I'm a UP graduate and I've been working here in Davao for nearly two years. However the nature of my work serves the benefit of foreign clients. I think there's no difference between working abroad and working here for international companies.

Creative Writing is my bachelor's degree, so, as expected, here's my list.


Current Reads

1. Three: Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
2. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
3. The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum
4. Bad Haircut by Tom Perrotta

Gay/Lesbian-themed Novels

1. Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran*
2. Three Junes by Julia Glass
3. The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst*
4. A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
5. My Father and Myself by J.R. Ackerley*
6. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
7. Living Upstairs by Joseph Hansen
8. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

Humor

1. Lake Wobegon: Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor
2. The Taming of the Screw by Dave Barry
3. Bad Habits by Dave Barry*

Romance

1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2. Love Invents Us by Amy Bloom
3. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
4. They Whisper by Robert Olen Butler
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte*
6. Elegy for Iris by John Bailey
7. Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger*
8. We Think The World of You by JR Ackerley
9. M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang*
10. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers*
11. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
12. Cast in Doubt by Lynne Tillman

Coming-of-Age

1. Black Boy by Richard Wright
2. American Childhood by Annie Dillard*
3. China Boy by Gus Lee

Family Portraits

1. House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
2. Obasan by Joy Kogawa*
3. The Rehearsal by Sarah Willis
4. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez
5. We are still Married by Garrison Keillor
6. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx*
7. Goodbye to the Buttermilk Sky by Julia Oliver
8. Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
8. Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid*

Adventures

1. West with the Night by Beryl Markham
2. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
3. In America by Susan Sontag

Creative Non-Fiction

1. My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid*
2. The Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson
3. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin*
4. Life Under the Leaky Roof by David Owen*
5. Something to Declare by Julia Alvarez*

Short Story Collections

1. Tiger in the Grass by Harriet Doerr*
2. Follies by Anne Beattie
3. The Things They Carried by Tim O’brien
4. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler*
5. Women Loving by Jhoanna Lynn Cruz*
6. Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan
7. Living Up the Street by Gary Soto*
8. Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro

Poetry Collections

1. A Night Without Armor by Jewel
2. Black Wings & Blind Angels by Sapphire
3. Sunflower by Tita Lacambra-Ayala*
4. From the Skin In by Mary Connell

Other Writings

1. Women and Bisexuality by Sue George
2. Immortal Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown
3. The Practical Stylist by Sheridan Baker
4. Getting Real: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry by Gemino Abad*
5. Ladlad 2: An Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing edited by J. Neil Garcia and Danton Remoto
6. Conversation with Truman Capote by Lawrence Grobel*
7. Sex, Art and American Culture by Camille Paglia*
8. Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure by Kate Borstein and Caitlin Sullivan

(*) favorite books

bayut siya?? hehe

Absolutely not! Horace said that the poet should achieve a moment of tranquility before he writes. With that said, in order to visualize and understand the emotion, one should be removed from it.

I think you are talking about "Mad Poets" that Aristotle discusses in his literary theory, the Poetics

Nagbasa ko'g Time Traveller's Wife karon.. Naa sa pinaunang page kani nga poem:

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

-- Derek Walcott

ahahahahahahahahha (after 2 years) kaluoy intawon sa akong gibiyaan nga balak. inyoha man gisumsuman...


lahi diay kaayo epekto pg naa kay gibati sa una (nga abi nimo perteng lisura) pero dili diay. kataw-anan diay. hahaha

unta naay bayut nga musulat og ing-ani nga problema, para masuta jud ang intellect ni noy kulas. hahahahaha

bata pa ko para sa ing-ani nga pangutana.. hahahahahahahaha

dugay na kaayo ko wala nakasulat og balak, mike. english na man gud akong ginakaon karon. pero tistingan nako'g sulat balik. inspiration kaayo ni nga site sa akoa.. akong mga teachers sa creative writing gipugos kog sulat og balak sa akong final thesis. okay ra unta pero maglisud kog trace sa tradition of cebuano literature. nawala na lagi tong balak.mikeligalig.com nimo? pirmi ko mubisita ato ba, naa kay lahi nga index sa imong mga balak?

HAHAHAHAHAHAhAHAHA kanindot ba sa imong mga balak.. cge kog katawa.. hahaha

bahala'g walay uyab basta naay internet.. unsaon na lang ang akong panginabuhi as online writer.. nyahahaha

Kamusta mong tanan? Ako si boylawas nga myembro diri tong 2007.. Gimingaw ko sa mga kakulian sa mga tao diri.. Hehe..