Slip of the Pen

Drum roll please…presenting Karimlan, my new blog where I finally let loose some crisp curses in Tagalog.

I’ve got one admission to make: I’ve been losing the urge to write in English these past months. Even my choice of books has slowly been tilting to Tagalog. Credit that to LIRA; aside from getting invaluable workshop lessons and appreciation for the native language, there I met a couple of minds attuned with mine, and to cut a long story short, the new friendships formed have led to what could become a major development in my life as a Filipino writer in Filipino. (This post’s postscript adds a bit more intrigue to it.)

Given all that has happened, I saw it a travesty that I wasn’t keeping a Tagalog blog. Right now, my Karimlan posts are more diary- and rant-ish types than serious works, but as time flies, poems and stories will find their way in.

(FYI: You’d be surprised to see how frequently I’ve been updating Karimlan. Even I am. Poor Slip of the Pen.)

That said, I won’t be abandoning this blog, much more writing in English. Sooner or later, my muse will swing back to Anglosphere-speak, and Karimlan will be the one with a dearth of posts. I’m betting that I’ll be long-suffering from a struggle between the foreign tongue and the tongue in which I dream.

Okey, tama na ang dada.

Pasinayaan ang Karimlan!

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