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Nov.18.2012
All right, here we go, another confessional blog. I confess that the most literary thing that I've done the past week is to shop for books. And not just books. Well, Christmas is coming, after all, but mostly I simply couldn't resist the sales.
I live in a fairly remote place where there are few...
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Nov.08.2012
I've just had some rather peculiar dreams lately. A few days ago I had a rather fun one. There was supposed to be a costume party at my husband's school where the theme was to come as your inspiration. My husband was thinking of going as J.D. Salinger, though he isn't exactly the type. I tried to...
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Oct.22.2012
I have just now been looking for a better-paying day job. Preferably one that does not require one to be chained to the computer. Because wearing myself out on the keyboard over other things keeps me from doing my own writing.
There are other jobs I am qualified for other than writing. I can...
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Oct.18.2012
I have just been writing about shoes for one of my day jobs. And, I confess, enjoying it. I drooled over a pair of red Naturalizer clogs I couldn't afford and pondered with amazement the many physiological aids built into one athletic shoe that caught my eye mainly because it was colorful and...
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Oct.11.2012
This is not going to be one of my literary blogs. This is nuts-and-bolts advice. It's about how to learn to read in a foreign language in just one month. Maybe you'll find the story inspirational. But I mean to deliver strictly practical ideas for anyone trying to master a language.
The master's...
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Sep.20.2012
It's rare that foreigners write about the Philippines in their fiction, so I definitely wanted to read Andy Mulligan's trash, set in Manila. From what it says about the author in the back of the book, I figure we are about on equal footing in terms of our familiarity with the world of Philippine...
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Sep.18.2012
At last I can confess. My name is Raissa. I'm 36 years old and I'm a YA addict. But I'm in good company. I just read a survey that showed 55% of US adults 30-44 years old purchase YA for themselves. Not for their children, other relatives or students. They read it for their own pleasure.
There are...
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Sep.16.2012
Just watched Inception on DVD. It's about someone who influences dreams as his business. An interesting concept and the dreams work out beautifully visually but ultimately everything would make more sense written as a book, I think. This is because the filmmaker missed out on one crucial fact: that...
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Sep.14.2012
During my young adult creative writing class, I decided to finally write the book that I had been waiting 12 years to write. When I was finishing my undergraduate degree in art studies, I did extensive research on an obscure topic, nineteenth century women artists in the Philippines. With its...
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Sep.10.2012
I watched two videos recently with my daughter. She is four and rarely watches TV--her own choice. Mostly she likes rewatching her old Elmo's World and Little Einsteins videos. She cried when she saw the tyrannosaurs in Land Before Time II. My husband reproached me for getting that movie for her,...
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Sep.04.2012
I've been working on a story in a realistic, contemporary setting which transitions to the spiritual world. The character has a vision of the past. Now I'm having trouble getting her back into the present where I will somehow have to address her psychological concerns. How to get back to writing...
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Aug.29.2012
My creative writing classmates all admire me for being able to go to classes and submit all my requirements on time despite my having one kid and being pregnant to boot the last two semesters. But now I can't write. Not much, anyway.
Oh, well, I'm blogging. That's different. Before there were blogs...
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Aug.26.2012
The way the history of the Philippine revolution is taught in schools focuses on important personalities and their roles. It tends to gloss over the details, so one of our nation's greatest dramas is presented as unspeakably dull. Admittedly, it was not a sudden flame that burst and srpead like...
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Aug.22.2012
Although I wasn't able to attend the full conference on Literature, Media, and the Romance of Childhood: States of Innocence and the Business of Frightening our Children, I think towards the end of the first day, we had all become rather concerned about how desentisized young people have become...
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Jul.29.2012
I went to write about my son's baptism in his baby book the other day, only to find there wasn't a page for baptism or christening. The closest it had was a page headed "Celebrating." In the blank for "the first holiday we celebrated after I was born" I had written Easter.
I love this baby book,...
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This book contributes to the literature that gives voice to women by weaving together the stories of two female painters from different eras....
[S]ilent space in history is vividly recreated in the novel. ”
—Review: Woman in a Frame, Xi Zuq's Nook
About Raissa
As a child I loved to read fairy tales and myths and pore over art books. My writing now, mainly fiction, reflects these interests. My YA novel Woman in a Frame is an art novel, which may be downloaded from Amazon, Kobo, or Flipreads. I have also written a...
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