I have read somewhere that in order to nourish the craft of writing, one must engage in writing exercises on a daily basis. The comparison links writing with any other human activity that needs refining and fluency. Apparently, this seems true for me too. Although I have swirling ideas in my head and find almost no time to incarnate them on a page (or an online dashboard, in this case) I know that I have to abandon that pointless alibi.
What moves me further is that I have to come to realize that The Annual Palanca Awards are out again. I have shied away from joining the Palanca for varied reasons: ideological biases of juries, lack of time, no inspiring idea worthy of my attention, fear of grammatical violations creeping into my work, ridicule from peers and above all, an empty mind.
I tried perusing samples of worthy works : short fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Many of them actually have little or no "Carmina Burana" sounding background music heralding the grand nature of their themes. They are simply articulations of hearts and minds willing to speak out whatever their authors wanted. So then again, I ask myself: "To join or not to join."
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise; Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuff’d with the stuff that is coarse, and stuff’d with the stuff that is fine; One of the Great Nation, the nation of many nations, the smallest the same, and the largest the same - Walt Whitman
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