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#61
12-07-2004, 10:24 AM
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would it be okay if we will just do this at a certain member's house? crashburn is offering his place.. hehehe..  then we will just buy pens and pentel pens.. what do you think? i have a white board also, i could bring that with me.. or if layuan ra mo sa opon, we can always do the planning at chowking fuente or da vinci's mandaue.. but the disadvantage with that is we might not be that focused because there are other people also.. there.. that's my suggestion for now.. that's for tomorrow ha.. need your comments, reg and sir blongx!
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#62
12-07-2004, 03:25 PM
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thisbe.ara and reggiebuang,
Don't rush things up. I myself don't want to lose breath in facilitating the session. If it cannot be done now, then it cannot be done now. We'll just have to find better times for it. A strategic planning session is not a game of cards we can just do anywhere. CrashBURN's place is OK. But Chowking/Fuente and DaVinci? Banish the thought --- I believe we are a bit more dignified than to sneak in just any corner of the town and be ogled at what we are doing. I made several suggestions here in some posts above this. But it looks like you are not reading them. |
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#63
12-07-2004, 04:07 PM
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my bad, sir blongx..
i wasn't convinced with the chowking/davinci concept, either.. hehehe.. actually i asked bellavista hotel regarding their conference room because i might get some discounts there..however the room is booked from the 8th-10th.. anyway, the strategic planning is a nice idea and i know that this can throttle us into a better direction. however, considering the expressed time and individual activity constraints, i believe that it is best to postpone the strategic planning. so, what do you think? show of hands please! for the meantime, what do you suggest we do before the strategic planning, sir blongx? something like keeping the flame burning.. thanks and hi to your 2 emilys! (OT!)
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#64
12-07-2004, 06:41 PM
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thisbe.ara,
I don't know anymore. I just wanted to help. What I do not understand is why do you have to kill yourself finding that conference room when I suggested one that will all go for free plus consummables. If you want me around for anything that you want to be doing for iSTORYAN.writers, call me after September 2005. Thanks. |
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#65
12-08-2004, 05:38 AM
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sir blongx,
finding that conference room is no biggie for me because we use that room everyday. i just happened to ask around. hmmm...september of 2005 is way too far pa man oi. i'll just keep you posted. thanks. |
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#66
12-09-2004, 03:29 AM
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I try to be a writer, but I don't seem to like writing pero I have lots of ideas for stories...sometime I just have to draw em. I hate typing out words.
I have a few screenplays and ideas in minds pero most often people cant seem to realte to my ideas coz dili kuno pilipino...wala man gud planting rice na scenes. |
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#67
12-09-2004, 11:00 PM
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My writing has been stalled, incredibly. I only have my blog, but even with this, I don´t have enough quality time to invest in writing, thinking right and editing properly because I work fulltime by day, have a language class 2x a week at night and a house to run after.
BUT(!) I desire to improve my writing. I actually have a few book ideas on shelf somewhere in my brains compartment, cant tell much of it but I dwell on non-fiction categories (informative). In fact I have started writing this book, and with just a few pages, I suffered a writing relapse, lol. It badly needs some rehashing! Here´s what´s worthwhile - I made substantial researches for this book, may not be too exhaustive, but the fact that I have already started thinking of its marketing strategy means that its promising! There is a huge untapped market out there. OK, I am dreaming, its free anyway, lol. Come Saturday I fly to the Philippines for my brothers wedding and also spend a week holiday in a serene beach. And I just thought, well in fact decided, that its time to do the brains and keyboard pushing again, so I am going to stash my laptop in the luggage. My book needs desperate reworking. Would love to hear tips - advices or what have you from the professional and aspiring istoryan writers. Your input will be much appreciated. |
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#68
12-12-2004, 08:06 AM
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welcome, DutcheD... you have gone a long way already.. and best of luck to your keyboard pushing as you fly here to the Philippines... you could share your pieces to us..
the best person to help you with that is i think, blongkoy.. he is on a vacation right now with his wife and i am hoping to hear from him again.. as for now, i am keeping in touch again with my writing.. my wastebasket is alive again with all the scratch but from time to time, i would dig it up again and re-read the whole scratch thingies.. hehehe.. for the moment, i would encourage everyone to share their work here in this thread.. then maybe your comments and/or suggestions will help us with each of our pieces. what do you think, reg? i don't want this thread to gather its own moulds.. i want to keep this alive. suggestions, anyone?
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#69
12-25-2004, 07:25 AM
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Merry Christmas. Just got back a few days ago; had we delayed for another day, we would have been sleeping at some airport terminals and even spending Chrtistmas there. It was her wise decision to forgo other things in the list. Anyway, I am back. I wished DutcheD would pursue his/her non-fiction effort. But there is very little I can do to help him/her. I can, for example, help him/her set-up his/her bibliography; but, other than that, I might not be of much use. (He/she --- a construct indicating an unavoidable dilemma in cybertalk). I missed a lot of sleep during the whole episode of this travel --- there were many things to do and very little time to them. So I am sleeping most of the time since arrival. |
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#70
12-25-2004, 07:42 AM
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thisbe.ara and reggiebuang,
At Demel's in Vienna --- this little place of unforgettable pastries --- you can practically sip Christmas from a hundred-year-old Dresden teacup. In Bratislava, a romantic city by the edge of the remaining banks of glittering Danube, their goulasch suppe stayed in your taste long after you have emptied your bowl. In the meantime, the sight of Christmas just outside the shoppe kept on falling like it has never fallen before. The whole Danube episode was captured in video and will easily provide three or four cuts of "Turistang Ahat" stories. |
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#71
12-26-2004, 03:02 AM
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Blongkoy,
i wish you could have pushed me in one of your luggage.. hehee.. grabe.. i could just imagine the places you've been to.. i wish to have a copy of turistang ahat also. welcome home, sir blongx! it's nice to see you post again.
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#72
12-28-2004, 07:44 AM
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Where are the Istoryan writers?
Was that initial rush of feelings to get organized just like a small prairie fire? Even this thread is now seldom visited. Of course, we are all busy, this I understand. But I initially thought that writing was an integral part of our business --- in which case, so I thought, in finding company to this very lonely piece of work, we become a lot more energized. It is clear to me now. This idea of writing is nothing more than a passtime, nothing more than mere scribbling. Nothing more than plain and simple whack of our imagination. So now I go to find another community elsewhere. Thank you. |
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#73
12-28-2004, 05:37 PM
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As an independent, independent filmmaker, I am now happy watching SineBuano at a distance producing their own films. It was to this premise that I was excited sensing the sudden impetus of Istoryan writers to bond together --- (in my thinking) in the hope of setting up an independent publishing body both for self-expression and business (i.e employment of whatever talent we have in writing). I know there are resources out there waiting to be tapped. For over 30 uninterrupted years until 2001, I was involved in no small matter in grant management. I am just confident the Istoryan writers, once verified to be existing and raring to go and embrace writing for a much larger purpose, those resources are always available. Perhaps, I am rushing you guys to where you are not yet ready. Perhaps, I am expecting too much for things to shape up in a flick of a finger. Perhaps, I am just fantasizing the Istoryan writers to be a vehicle towards a more challenging engagement. May those "perhaps" be, in pushing for the creation of Istoryan writers beyond the bounds of ordinary, my only concern was and still is to find a community to belong, one that is filled with promise and hope in the twilight of my life --- the purpose for which we are all looking why in the first place we exist. See you all when you have time to go slow. In the meantime, I will keep myself busy on more mundane things. |
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#74
12-28-2004, 07:20 PM
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i respect that, sir blongx.
i admit i am not ready yet for the many plans that you have for this thread. in fact, i feel so honored to have this kind of support from a respected person like yourself. making this thread was just my thrust to find other people to ignite the flame of my writing interest.. a flame that has been set aside for so long.. this thread has helped me befriend my trashcan and pc again in the arts of writing. maybe i wasn't expecting a lot. my bad. i wish to get to know more, though. in my earlier posts, i mentioned how important writing is to me. i just want to get in touch with that. thank you guys for letting me know that side of me again. |
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#75
12-29-2004, 08:39 PM
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But, really, this inclination does not differ much from the desire of many to direct movies, unknowing of the many sleepless nights and lonely presence in post-production bays. In fact, I am of the opinion that many film producers in the past went into film production as a way of reclaiming their space in social status; precisely why past movies went down the drain because there was no business mind directing them. Writing, for its own sake and for the sake of the prestige associated with it, is not going to prosper if the writer remains the only reader of his/her piece. There has to be an audience willing to sweat it out in the sun if only to read the writer. But writing is not about money if this is the impression here. It is about fleshing an idea in the manner of surviving the process of creation. This is because the writer dies in the unfeeling world of his/her piece being laid by the wayside of appreciable literature. |
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