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Philippine Genre Stories: A Noteworthy Venue for Filipino Writers

July 10, 2007

One of the very very very few things I’ve learned in my Creative Writing class last year was how to read, not as reader, but mainly as a writer. Maybe I’ve never really taken the advise to heart because I (and half of the class, I’m compelled to say) got a tumataginting na kwatro in the course because, according to the professor, our “grammar sucks” in the 500-word short stories we submitted. Surprising, especially because other than the few cheesy lines, my story has been well-received by the whole class.

Even by the professor, actually. So okay, then 20-year-old Sands Reyes was born after a few minutes of “brainstorming.” I finished the story in only a few hours before the deadline. It wasn’t technically perfect, but it certainly passed the standard. The prof only strongly suggested that I stop reading those damn corny romance novels by Mills & Boons and the like. But he said that my language wasn’t as bad as in the previous stories we critiqued. A sigh of relief that time. One of my closest friends in class, Mark (the rumored boyfriend last year by the duffus, haha), even consulted his story with professional writers and still got a 4. We still got a frigging 4. What a big blow.

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