Wednesday, August 02, 2006
i've finished my paperwork in Eng101 (English Prose Style) class to be submitted on friday...i felt a gush of relief when i typed the last word. and guess what that word is. BACLARAN. the story is a secret. it is a four-page fiction. i had a hard time thinking about an interesting story but it was worth it.
the further i study about creative writing (or writing in general) the more i find it difficult. maybe because now, i look at it in a more liberated lenses. i mean, before, i had a totally different definition of writing, and it's "me"- oriented. i wrote because i wanted to express myself, i wrote because i had something to write, i wrote because i wanted to. now i know that those intentions are wrong motives for a true writer. writers write because they have readers, not because they have themselves. as what mam bucoy always says "readers don't give a s*** on what you think, on what you feel and what you want to say." as a writer, one must give his readers something they haven't experienced yet, and must give it in an extraordinary way. now i wonder, can i really stand being a writing major and eventually fight against the competitive world of words and metaphors as a profession. do i have what it takes to be a fierce warrior of words and a commander of someone else's (my readers to be) imagination? it's so early to say. if only writing is as easy as writing. *sigh*
okay, that was quite serious. that was my alter ego, my writer alter ego. :) i don't want my entry to be as boring as that. but i think i have to admit i have boring tendencies sometimes. so, to deviate from the boring part, i'll include here a conversation we've had this afternoon while hanging out (and not ordering anything) at mcdonald's.
conversation:
diana: grabe, 14 speeches sa spcm104 (occassional speeches) ang required sa 'min.
mafe: e di dapat pagkatapos mo nian, good speecher ka na. (laugh)
diana: ha?
mafe: sabi ko speecher.
chino: speecher? tama ba yun?
mafe: hehe..basta gusto ko speecher. (laugh)
bullet: anong sabi mo mafe?
mafe: (looks intently at bullet)
bullet: yung huli mong sinabi..
mafe: MANOK!
(all laugh except Bullet.)
hay! the beauty of life.. :)
