Pep Talk from Inez Ponce de Leon (illustria)
The words, however, come pouring out when a story means something to me. This year, my novel is my way of healing my own wounds, of looking at my own past and seeing how it made me what I am today. I also got a few pointers from my professors this semester, who were privy to my affairs. One professor told me to celebrate my grandmother’s life by writing, because I truly was bent on giving NaNo up this year. Another professor told me to tell the story of my family before no one would be alive and around to tell it.
By: illustria
NaNoWriMo 2007
One day, a few weeks before Christmas, the world as we know it ends. A new era begins, of pain, anguish, and sorrow; of a past that comes to haunt all of us; and a future that seems bleak with the shadows of ghosts and the unseen. Caught in this storm are the lovers Isabelle, who is studying in the U.S., and Alvarez, who is working in the Philippines. As the earth merges into one continent, and as the world they once loved threatens to destroy itself, they strive to find each other and be reunited. Their journeys will teach them that not all sad memories must be heeded, that true love can survive the tests of time and the past - and that there are ways to push back the ghosts into the doors in the mist, so that humanity can face its future once again.
Oh hai!
Julie (planet_telex) here, checking in to let you know that I’ll be working on the Featured Excerpts section of our site regularly for the next couple of weeks. Expect more excerpts by then! Hopefully by the end of March I’ll have uploaded the entire 2007 PinoyWriMo Anthology to the site!
Spreading the word for a friend who’s doing her Master’s at Stanford:
I’ll be deploying the teachermate to an underserved site in Pinas. (I’m
still in the process of finalizing the exact details with the partner site.) The
teachermate is basically an educational mobile device. It is currently targeted
towards teaching mathand improving literacy at the grade 1/grade 2 level.There are existing applications that will be deployed to the site in the
Philippines. However, a big concern is the literacy part. Since the teachermate was initially created for US children, the e-books are in English. My target is to come up with at least 20 stories in Filipino for the Philippine audience.Unfortunately, this is out of my expertise. I was hoping you could help me find:
- people who are willing to write short stories in Filipino. It doesn’t have to be that long — a minimum of 100 words is OK since these are grade 1/grade 2 level children
- people who are willing to do some illustrations based on the stories. The initial deployment is at the 3rd week of March. Not all of the stories are targeted to be digitized by then. Again, since the stories are short, this would require around 4 or 5 illustrations per story
(Note: It doesn’t have to be the same person writing and illustrating.)
Unfortunately, we will not be able to pay anything other than warm fuzzy
feelings for contributing. However, volunteers will be recognized for their
efforts. Any stories or illustrations they create will be attributed to them.Thanks! If you find someone who’s interested, please have them contact me
directly via my school e-mail address (msogono[at]stanford.edu).–
Mela Sogono
MA Learning, Design, & Technology
Stanford University, Class of 2009
Where else can we find a pool of talented writers but in the Pinoywrimos, right? :)
Hi guys! I know this post is terribly late, so let me first greet everyone a (belated) HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Congratulations to the following PinoyWrimo 2008 awardees!
WORD WARRIORS OF THE YEAR
The brave people who joined the 2008 Word Wars and came out victorious among the rest
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- Anne / DeSanggria (9595 total accumulated words)
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Hello Pinoywrimos!
I just got back from my trip to Makati where I met up with 15 other Wrimos to eat pizza and talk, talk and talk! It was such a fun afternoon — good thing we ruled Yellow Cab. :P Thanks to everyone who attended!
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