I just want to write some personal essays in english as part of my goal to renew my skills in writing in english. As a former features and literary editor of our university paper The Featinean for two years, I wrote most of my articles there in that language.
When I became activist, and wrote for the workers and urban poor publications, I wrote mostly in Tagalog. More than one decade after, I believe I can still write in english and I want to practice this again. That's why I created this blog.
I titled this blog "Alone in the Battlefield" because this depicts what I really am. A loner perhaps although I have so many friends. Or probably a survivor, I've survived many battles and accidents and I'm still alive. Or maybe a one-man army, doing many things through DIY (do-it-yourself), such as publishing books that I sell. I've published about 30 books already, and I've written almost one-third of it. I layouted the book, design the cover, and published it alone.
But most of the time, I'm alone. Not because they want me that way, but because that's what I chose. I want to be alone so that I can think and write my articles and poems with preciseness in thought and clarity.
I hope that my relationship with the english language and for the love of poetry, I can write more often now in english than before.
Hope you read what I have written, although you may not like some of it. You're free to give your opinion on anything I wrote. Thank you very much.
When I became activist, and wrote for the workers and urban poor publications, I wrote mostly in Tagalog. More than one decade after, I believe I can still write in english and I want to practice this again. That's why I created this blog.
I titled this blog "Alone in the Battlefield" because this depicts what I really am. A loner perhaps although I have so many friends. Or probably a survivor, I've survived many battles and accidents and I'm still alive. Or maybe a one-man army, doing many things through DIY (do-it-yourself), such as publishing books that I sell. I've published about 30 books already, and I've written almost one-third of it. I layouted the book, design the cover, and published it alone.
But most of the time, I'm alone. Not because they want me that way, but because that's what I chose. I want to be alone so that I can think and write my articles and poems with preciseness in thought and clarity.
I hope that my relationship with the english language and for the love of poetry, I can write more often now in english than before.
Hope you read what I have written, although you may not like some of it. You're free to give your opinion on anything I wrote. Thank you very much.
