There once was a woman who liked dogs, JaneAusten, gardening, books. I’m that woman. PNW Writer. Editor. 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇸🇮🇦🇹 No DMs please.
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I’m pinning “that time my own English fantasy came true when I met Henry Cavill to sip champagne atop the London Eye,” so whenever I come to this app, I’m cheered up automatically. (True story. You can Google it.)
I spent 3 hours yesterday setting up my 1st post on my underutilized Substack. Only to realize today that I set up an entirely new account... I deleted post & new account, & now wondering why I wasted time on something that, after I deleted it, made no difference to me anyway.
While we slept, my monthly e-newsletter ON DITS landed in susbribers inboxes. (Did you get open yours?) I think it might be my best content yet. Just saying. ☺️☺️
One of the best ways to keep track is to create character profile lists with important details about each character. You can also keep notes about significant
events, locations, clothing, relationships, and other details that you may
refer to.
I interviewed Austenesque author Melissa Anne and discussed why and how she continues to write Darcy and Elizabeth stories.
thequillink.com/post/intervi…
What a lovely evening at the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Awards Dinner!
My 3rd unpublished novel, SELFIE, was a finalist in Women’s Fiction. Though it wasn’t my night to take home a top prize, I left grateful to be among such an inspiring community of storytellers.
I presented The Art of Self-Editing during the Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA) Hybrid Conference, sharing practical techniques to help writers strengthen their manuscripts before anyone else reads them.
(I hope I didn’t sound like a chipmunk, speed talking.)
My recommended resources for writers:
📕The Master List for Writers by Bryn Donovan Bryn Donovan
📕ACTIVATE by Damon Suede
📕The Author Checklist by Elizabeth Kracht
📕The Chicago Manual of Style
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I need you all to do something for me, and for yourself.
Take a deep breath, relax your shoulders, and your jaw. Now stop pressing your tongue into the top of your mouth.
October is Filipino Heritage Month, and I’m thinking about my father, how he came to the U.S. in the 1960s as a young doctor. He married my mother in Pennsylvania, and I was born and raised in Delaware.
But our American story began even earlier.
5) I’m proud to be a Filipina American, and forever grateful for the generations who sacrificed and dreamed to pave the way.
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#FilipinoHeritageMonth #FilipinoAmerican
4) Filipino blood runs through my veins but American ways shaped my upbringing. At times, being half Filipino and half White meant straddling two cultures and felt rather “complicated.” But today, I see it as a gift.
3) With my grandfather’s hard-earned money, my father was given the gift of an education, and that opportunity opened the door to a new life in the United States. His courage and all my grandparents’ sacrifices shaped the life I have today.
2) Lolo, my grandfather, came to Washington State and worked in the berry fields, and then Alaska canneries, sending American dollars to the family in the Philippines. Today, I live not far from where he once labored—a coincidence that feels incredibly meaningful.
Daybreak among the last gasp of blooms before a killing frost turns my garden black.
And of course, looking east for Mr Darcy to come striding across the pasture.
