The little hardcover Moleskine 2011 Daily or Weekly Diary Planner in black, blue, red, pink, and green is now available at the Moleskine store in National Bookstore in Greenbelt 1 and at National Bookstore branches. I take credit for this: I nagged them into ordering the planners.
Monday: They’re not here yet.
Tuesday: They’re still not here.
Wednesday: When are they arriving?
Saturday: They’re here!
The winners of LitWit Challenge 2.8 are Boranzohn and Stellalehua. I like their facility with their chosen languages—they don’t turn themselves inside out to impress us with the verbiage—and the use of detail rather than adjectives to evoke a specific moment.
Congratulations, the My Pilipinas Moleskines are yours!
Winners, please post your full names in Comments. I’ll deliver your prizes to National Bookstore at Power Plant Mall in Rockwell and alert you when you can pick them up.
The Weekly LitWit Challenge is brought to you by the lovely people of National Bookstore. LitWit Challenge 2.9 is coming right up.
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Boranzohn and Stellalehua, you can pick up your Moleskines any day starting Wednesday, 28 April, during store hours at National Bookstore, Power Plant Mall, Rockwell, Makati City. Go to the Customer Service counter. Dean from the previous LitWit Challenge, your books are there, too.
Why we love Conan, from Letters of Note.
Ooh, notebooks! This week two winners will each receive a large Moleskine My Pilipinas notebook. (One with plain pages, one with lined paper, we’ll figure it out later.)
This week’s LitWit Challenge: How to write a thunderbolts and violins scene that is plausible and non-bloodcurdling, that does not make us want to run screaming from the computer to wash our brains out with soap and water.
Your instructions: Write the scene in which you meet the person you fall in love with. It doesn’t have to be literally thunderbolts and violins, but it has to be clear that something significant has taken place. Subtlety would be highly appreciated.
This first meeting could be factual or fictional, we don’t care as long as it’s the best writing you can crank out. At the first sign of schmaltz you’re out, so think it through. Consider Pride and Prejudice, the grandmummy of all matrimony novels. The first meeting did not go well, but you know there’s more.
So you know how you’re doing, we’re turning on the Yucch-meter. This way you can rewrite and repost your entry. While we’re at it, let’s allow readers to comment on each other’s work. Be kind.
1,000 words maximum, deadline on 11.59 pm, Saturday April the 24th.
The Weekly LitWit Challenge is brought to you by the lovely people of National Bookstore.
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The Yucch-meter has been activated. See Comments. We regret that we are not available to critique your work after this contest. If you send us your manuscripts they will not be read.
I like hanging out in National Bookstore, but then I am the kind of person who hyperventilates when she sees nice paper. Some of the things I’ve spotted in store lately:
I’m not sure if my puberty was triggered by seeing Warren Beatty in Heaven Can Wait or Matt Dillon in Rumblefish, but when Heaven Can Wait came out in 1978 (After the ice had thawed) I convinced my mom to take me to see it thrice. (Now that I think about it, my mom and I had the same crush.) My friend took a simpler approach: He put pictures of Warren Beatty under his pillow.
Star (Hardcover, Php1259) is the biography of Beatty by Peter Biskind, author of that great book about Hollywood in the 70s, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. The megalomaniacs and demented geniuses who defined the filmmaking of that period make the indies of the 90s onwards seem bland and wimpy: Down and Dirty Pictures is a little boring, even with the excesses of the Weinsteins.
On the left: a travel notebook (Php419) that contains an accordion folder for your travel documents, receipts, etc, and a notepad. Right: A set of 55 antiquarian bookplates (Php634.75).
You like bookplates huh? Okay, we’ll also give away bookplates with this week’s LitWit Challenge.
In the children’s section, The Lost Files of Nancy Drew: the scrapbook of our favorite girl detective. It comes with a set of postcards with the original cover art of the series. (Php395)
Wells Tower’s short story collection was a fixture in critics’ best books lists last year. The title story is a hilarious, gory, deeply moving tale of marauding Vikings. (Hardcover, Php1149)
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