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Last night, I finished the first draft of my Siglo: Passion story, a soapy dramatic vignette set in Palawan during the latter part of the Second World War. Some of the details in the story are based on actual events, retold in a book Palawan: The War Years, which was edited by my grandmother. For those who don’t know, Palawan is the home province of my mother’s side.

The graphic you see here is draft art from my sketchbook, only meant to help me get into the mood of the story. I pray that the Siglo editors don’t chop my script up to bits. Next on my list is the script for the Alamat anthology.

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