Sometimes Writing Is Like Throwing a Ball Down a Field and Hoping You Can Run Fast Enough to Catch It

I like making elaborate metaphors when it distracts me from actually having to write anything. Announcing my daily writing progress is my way of making myself stick to it. It’s a brain hack. Because writing is very hard, but I don’t like breaking promises. So I stick to it, even if it means writing way …

Worldbuilding Around My Culture: Why It’s Not As Simple As Calling My Work “Filipino Fantasy”

Whenever I talk about my worldbuilding, I mention that it uses a lot of “Asian settings,” as opposed to the usual European-centric fantasy that is all-too common in the genre. But it’s not just specifically Asian fantasy; there’s a lot of cultures at play, all of which provide the appropriate background for whatever character-centric drama …

Blackwood Marauders — a.k.a. “The B Team” a.k.a. Mercenary Soap Opera

Last week, I announced the new standalone novel I’ve been working on for the whole autumn: Blackwood Marauders. You can find more information on the Goodreads link. The blurb, if you don’t want to click:   Growing up in a quiet farm, Luc “Lucky” son of Jak didn’t think much of the world until he fails …

The Agartes Epilogues in Two Lines

These 4k a day marathons is making the procrastinator in me come out with these random blog posts. My brain reasons as long as I’m doing some form of work, it’s all right. Of course, the usefulness of this is all debatable, but whatever keeps me from actually writing, right? I’m doing two lines this time because The Agartes …