Don’t Be A Writer: We’re doing a series of talks at Ayala Museum in 2014.
In 2014 we’re giving a series of talks at the Ayala Museum. The talks will be held on three Saturday afternoons at 3pm and are open to the public. Admission is Php350 (to be confirmed); the price includes an exclusive e-book (with a print on demand option). Each talk will be followed by an open forum, merienda, and book-signing. Obviously we can’t sign e-books so we’ll put the download code on a specially-designed card or notebook.
7 June 2014: Don’t Be A Writer. The hazards of the writing life, the perils of the profession, things we wish we’d known before we decided that our primary occupation would be ‘writer’. The writing process, our favorite assignments and interviews, strange side projects, how to beat a deadline.
George R.R. Martin visited Middle Earth.
5 July 2014: Game of Thrones, History and Fantasy. By July season 4 of the TV series will have aired, and we’ll need to huddle around the books and process what we just saw. We’ll cover the books and the TV series, historical inspirations for Westeros, fantasy epics—The Lord of the Rings and The Once and Future King, medieval epics—Le Morte d’Arthur, the Nibelungenlied, mythological epics—the Iliad, the Odyssey, and just geek out, generally.
2 August 2014: We don’t have a topic yet. Any suggestions? Movies, tennis, cats? What specifically about movies, tennis, cats? What would you like us to talk about? Post suggestions in Comments; if we pick yours, you can come to the talk as our guest.
Update: The Ayala Museum took a poll, and the winning topic iiiiissssss…World Domination. The talk will cover world domination theory, ongoing campaigns, and organizing the conquest.
Tickets will be available at the Ayala Museum next year. We’ll alert you as soon as they go on sale.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
December 3rd, 2013 at 09:19
Topic: If cats could write.
December 3rd, 2013 at 11:59
Ooh yes, people will pay 350 bucks and spend three hours listening to our cats’ compositions. Better: Stuff our cats wrote while playing tennis.
December 3rd, 2013 at 12:13
‘If cats could write’ topic — I’m definitely there!
Also: everything about movie adaptations of books and vice versa. (I remember reading the YA book version of ‘Pretty in Pink’ before watching the movie. The book ended with Andie and Ducky dancing in a ‘blur of pink’.)
December 3rd, 2013 at 14:30
How about on nuances between genres, like what we should keep on mind when writing short stories, journalism, movies…choose-your-own adventure books?
Or maybe an analysis of what the 50 top best sellers have in common (besides authors).
December 3rd, 2013 at 15:01
Please sign me up for the June 7th session! Lavet!
December 3rd, 2013 at 23:54
Momelia: Tickets will be available next year at the Ayala Museum. We’ll post the link.
December 4th, 2013 at 01:27
Your Grace, I will submit myself to Your Grace’s callings.
December 4th, 2013 at 09:12
I want to come. I’m so excited!
December 4th, 2013 at 12:19
My imaginary friend and I are going :-)
December 4th, 2013 at 18:44
jules: If your friend does not occupy space, you need only buy one ticket.
December 8th, 2013 at 01:45
Layunin kong ma-perfect attendance. Huwag sana akong maubusan ng ticketses.