Before I begin, I’d like to acknowledge the handful among you who have been with me through the ups and downs of my writing career. I’m glad that you’re all there for me, even during the moments when I feel like giving up. Thank you, from the very bottom of my heart, for all the love and support that you
Usually the conversation between art and commerce tires the living daylights out of me, but since there’s a big cultural war being waged over this all over social media I might as well put in a few thoughts that can’t be contained in my usual Twitter mega-threads. Here’s the thing: Every time art/literature/cinema gets brought up, I am always reminded
Two weeks ago, I had the Windows 10 OS refreshed on my laptop because it had been acting up for some reason, and one of the fun (read: not fun) things about getting my laptop fixed at the shop was the process of backing up my files. which I had to do by myself. Not all of my files have
CW/TW: Suicide ideation, depression/mental illness If you’ve been following me on social media these last two weeks, you may have noticed that I haven’t been very “present” lately, in terms of posting as myself. Most of the posts I’ve made have been retweets, and if I was posting any original content it was usually 1) little things that caught my
While I was drafting the FAQ for this site, I started writing down the questions that have been on my mind for a while–not that anyone ever asked me, but they were things that I needed to sort out for myself, in terms of what has happened to my career and where I could go moving forward. One of the
Been thinking about writing a long thread about my last two to three years as a writer, but it hurts too much to lay it all out in public. So I’ll just give myself space to mourn, and maybe move on forward. — Stella Torres (@TheStellaTorres) August 13, 2019 I’m going to be honest with you: As much as I
is the author of the adult contemporary romances Save the Cake, Crushingly Close, and Nine Years Away, as well as the short story “Be Creative” in the anthology Kids These Days: Stories from Luna East Vol. 1.
In her previous life, she has worked in public relations, taught English as a second language, and even attended graduate school (twice!). She has lived in Indonesia, Honolulu, and Quezon City before moving back to her hometown of Los Banos, a few hours’ drive (with traffic) from the heart of Manila.
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