good grief. that's a quicky-post for me? i've always known i tend towards long-ish posts, but this is ridiculous. i've hardly left anything more for me to say on the awards.
so i guess i'll just ramble.
nope. nothing left to say really.
however, i was immensely pleased to have gotten to meet the winners of the prose category. i'd really wanted to meet the author of Atha, it being the only shortlisted entry to be of the sort of visual/sensory fantasy that i truly adore (as evidenced by my preference for the Titus Groan books and Mieville's work). as it happens, she was the first person i had the honor of meeting, having registered immediately before i did, allowing me, with the help of Mabel, to pick her out from the crowd once we learned that the story was written by Ma. Michaela Atienza. (she had signed herself in as Mikey Atienza, and her name had fortunately made it through my reactive autism at events that are even remotely approaching being social, and filtered into my subconscious as i signed in immediately after her.)
i would have liked to have had long discussions with the winners on their works, influences, style, all that writerly nonsense, but i suppose they all had their own agendas for the night.
i do hope they take me up on my request and drop by here to join the fun. Philbert Dy, by the way, has already posted a comment on the entry that contains my review of his work. i'm hoping to have more from the authors to put up here in later days, but more on that as it comes.
Ben, who did Karnabal, was complaining that i was descriminating, having only invited the winners to post, so i make it clear here that all the writers and artists who made it on the list (and those, like me, who didn't) are more than welcome to drop by and let themselves be known here.
(in fact, if you didn't make it on the list, i would gladly review your stuff, and say things like how your story should have made it on the list, if you send me your stories. for that purpose, i take a leap of faith and leave you my e-mail ad here: furnival@yahoo.com. feel free to drop me a line.)
so please, feel free to look around, drop comments wherever, throw fruit, whatever suits your fancy.
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Can we throw rotten vegetables? :-D
sure. faeces. crash test dummies. whatever.
hey, mike, welcome aboard!
hmm... does that mean you didn't get my e-mail? hope i didn't get your e-mail ad wrong. i sent you my story yesterday morning.
i don't mind getting the comments section cluttered up. your "deconstruction" of the ideas behind your story is actually very illuminating.
shows us hacks how to REALLY win an award. hehe.
i myself am very un-cerebral with my writing. i "shoot from the hip," you might say, with mixed results. mostly it means that my own stories often catch me off-guard and do things i don't really intend for them to do at the start. to use an analogy i used a while back on this blog, i suppose that makes my writing the Ellison to your Asimov.
if you haven't gotten any of my e-mails (i actually sent 2, and there's a "very important request" in them, apart from my story), let me know. drop me a line through furnival@yahoo.com.
thanks for giving us your two cents. with interest.
don't worry, i was having fun with my last post. in fact, i love it that there are blogs that actually reviewed the pieces; the wait for the awards were getting quite boring. i'll give my comments on what you posted on mine, and if you want a further discussion that would be fun! congratulations to the winners, by the way :)
cool. can't wait to hear your comments. see you hereabouts, then, ben.
i know this isn't my space to go on a fanboy moment (indulge me, skinnyblackcladdink), but i'd like to say i'm lining up behind those who really like 'god equation,' although after reading it more closely i realize that the 'pi' comparison i made was totally facile. besides, 'pi' wasn't the first to explore the connection between math and mysticism (math books themselves do that; i'm thinking, offhand, of something like amir aczel's book on georg cantor). unfortunately i'm only a math-wienie-wannabe, so i couldn't really say anything if i were in a discussion on set theory or whatever.
and this is mr co's first short story? argh. i'm crushed.
yes, we haven't been saying it but i think we were all crushed by that little declaration by mike.
at least, i know i am.
note to self: when using a double-action revolver to blow your own brains out, remember where to position the loaded chamber.
i'm glad you liked it! atha was sort of an experiment for me - i don't read a lot of sci-fi and i had never tried writing it before, so in that sense i didn't really know what i was doing. i had an idea of what i wanted to write about, and what kind of aesthetic i was going for, and where the story was set, but the rest - the most important part - was surprisingly difficult to flesh out. two weeks to the deadline, i still couldn't figure out why a gigantic flying monster might be terrorizing an old man on top of a skyscraper. but i liked the idea of dead cities and construction and metal, and a "mad scientist" figure that was more nostalgic than he was ambitious.
i'm really glad it came out ok, because i didn't have a definite plan. to be honest, i didn't know it was going to be sad until i killed conrad in the very end. i didn't think i even had it in me to write a sad story.
it was nice meeting you the other night! i'm really, really glad you liked my work.
hey mikey! thanks for taking me up on my request.
glad your story came out ok? Atha was amazing! don't mind what Paul has to say about it. he doesn't read that sort of thing. hehe.
i do have a request. how would you like to answer 5 questions for the blog readers here? i've already sent the questions to Philbert Dy, and i'm waiting for mike (you reading this mike?) to respond to my request.
please? i think it would be fun and i'm sure the other bloggers here would love to hear what might be going on in your heads.
really simple questions, just for fun. whaddaya say?
Oops, I posted my comment before checking my email. My bad. But I'll read your story and tell you what I think, promise. I guess email would be the proper forum for that.
I'm extremely flattered at the response I've gotten from the folks who read your blog. And before you think that I'm some literary demigod in disguise, I'm just an insecure schmo that got lucky. Never been commercially published. A literary nobody. A geek.
My ulterior motive was for my story to at least get noticed by the local comic art community ... I wanted it to be a graphic novel. In fact, if I had an artist to collaborate with, God Equation would've been my entry for the graphic category.
Hey, who knew?
Sure. I'll answer any number of questions ... 5, 10, 15, 20 ... I don't mind. Hope I can help.
awesome! send you the questions in a bit.
sure i'll answer questions :) what are they?
Arrrgggh! No wonder I was getting a dissonance reading the comment thread, what with a Mikey and a Mike both answering questions and both non-blogger linked. Grrr....
cool, thanks Mikey! actually, i was going to e-mail them to you, but the questions are the same as the ones i asked Mike, so if you prefer, you could just go check out my post called "Exclusive! Mike Co Unmasked!"
you don't strictly have to answer them. feel free to be as elaborate or brief as you like, and say whatever you want.
do you mind e-mailing your responses to furnival@yahoo.com though so i can post them officially when i get them rather than have them buried with the comments? thanks much!
haha, sorry banz. to clarify, that's the supremely intelligent being known as Michael Co and the lovely and utterly talented Ma. Michaela Atienza.
geez, i talk like i know them personally. which would be great, but i don't really. not at the moment, anyway.
Just wanted to say I appreciated ( and enjoyed) your reviews on the Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards, and also your taking time to speak with the authors of the winning entries. ^^ I didn't go to the actual event so I've been surfing around on info on the winners of the contest (for some reason fully booked itself hasn't posted any info on it yet) and this was so far the most informative. I haven't properly read any of the entries yet (just a few paragraphs, at most, because my adobe reader hasn't been working well) but I actually agreed with most of your choices (Atha in particular, but the other choices too), and I'm happy to hear that they won.
Nice of you to offer to read other people's works. (I'd send mine, but I'm only sixteen and starting to realize all its pitiful points, ahaha.) The insights the authors share are also interesting and helpful reads. ^^
Would you happen to have any idea what happened to the Youth Award thingy though? ^^; Curious.
that's a great f**king question. what DID happen to the goddamn youth awards?!?
sorry. i enjoyed the event itself, but that's me, i just have fun with things regardless of what implications they have on what's going on beneath it all. call me superficial.
but that really is a good point. anybody here have an answer?
mellish, as for your story, heck, i'd love to review it for you. and to be honest, the reason i was so harsh with the other stories is because they made the shortlist, so that implies a higher standard of judging, if you know what i mean.
actually, more than reviewing it for you, i'd really love to read it. if you want a review, you can even specify how much you want to know of my opinions. and he, they're only opinions, right?
so the offer stands for everybody. i've left my e-mail ad all over the place here, so feel free to drop me a line.
I really have to keep up with the thread and to Mikey, dapat ikaw lang yung nanalo. I really thought your story captured the whole SF theme of the awards.
I mean, Ian's was good but it doesn't deserve to share the first place with you
der fuhrer, i think you meant Mike and not Mikey? although i'm all for Mikey winning, too. not that i don't think you deserve it Mike. and not that i didn't like your story either, but you gotta admit, Mikey's was pretty awesome.
hehe. anyone else getting confused?
*raises paw*
dammit. it's getting harder and harder to pin down everybody's comments.
i'm taking this blog moderator thing WAY too seriously.
office broadband is EVIL.
Shit, I am freaking confused. Basta I heart whoever wrote The God Equation.
and guys, Nick/Zoneseek has started a forum regarding local spec fic so it would be great if you guys join.
http://zoneseek.proboards37.com/index.cgi#general
I thought Atha was good too. Kaya lang, di ako pinatulog.
Nice colors. Keep up the good work. thnx!
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