Staying focused and motivated to smash your writing goals
Finally, you already fired up that keyboard (or pen and paper) and wrote the outline of your story. You may already even have written a few chapters …
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I am officially entering my non-fiction author era
If 2024 was my adventure author era, I guess 2025 is my non-fiction author era. 100 Life-Changing Quotes for Couples came to me as a surprise. If yo…
Setting realistic goals in writing
So you want to write? You’re thinking of a story but you can’t just get it out of your head. Or maybe, you’ve been already been writing but it’s been…
Overcoming writer's block
I do not believe that writer’s block exists… at least until I attended a writing workshop where the respectable speakers said there is no such thing …
Say hello to my new book, Marahuyo
I was in Boracay when I received the invite to the initial meeting of Pinoy Indie Authors for their second collab. The week before that, Yeyet Soria…
Destiny Cheated Me is 10 years old
Storytime to when I submitted my first published book to the publisher. I actually submitted Destiny Cheated Me to two publishers. I can no longer re…
Your guide to writing romance: Befriending your characters
Characters make your story moving. Essentially, they are the life of the story, and so may it be a person, an animal or an inanimate object (in fable…
Your guide to writing romance: Coming up with story ideas
Story ideas pop in my head all the time. When I'm drinking coffee. When there's an ending to a book or a movie or a scene in a Kdrama that I …
Your guide to writing romance: An introduction
All of us have a story tell, or two. Or maybe a lot. Sometimes you feel like your brain is going to explode of all the things that want to be written…
Let me show you The Shape of My Heart
Yay for my newest book out in the market! The complimentary copies of The Shape of My Heart arrived in the mail last month, right before Valentine…
Free writing workshop, anyone?
One reason why I don't want to go back to school and learn the essentials of writing is because I know I can learn all of those from worksho…
The making of Right Where You Left Me
Right Where You Left Me is my latest release to date – I introduced it to the world in April last year, two days after my birthday. It was supposed…
If I Knew Then has a new book cover and I am excited
If I Knew Then is my first self-published book in print – it was released back in October 2016. After almost 3 years, I can still remember the eupho…
I rummaged thru my old files and this happened
Oh yes, for once the traffic wasn’t so bad—I got home much earlier than my usual ten-thirty. Of course, I was pretty excited because that meant I…
Revisiting my very first self-published book, I Still...
I wrote I Still… in 2015, during the very first writing workshop I attended, #JustWritePH. This was by far the most generous workshop I attended, bec…
How Did I Become a Published Author
They say there's no such thing as a frustrated writer. That as long as one writes, then one can be considered a writer. I wanted to believe this …
Finally, A Dream Come True
It's Christmas eve, and while most of the blogs today might probably be talking about menus for Christmas dinner or maybe how to gift-wrap proper…
An early Christmas treat
It's just less than two months before Christmas, and though I could already feel the cold Christmas breeze on my face, the one that just makes me…