Kwentuhan Tayo! The Aspiring Authors and Tortured Prose of Valenzuela
The Polo Park “Romance Novel” Workshop with Clichéd Plots
A writing workshop in Polo Park promises to teach you how to write a bestselling romance novel. The instructor presents a formula: meet-cute, conflict, misunderstanding, dramatic reunion. The participants, mostly middle-aged women, eagerly plot stories involving rich CEOs and feisty provincial lasses. The prose produced is full of “sparkling orbs” (eyes) and “throbbing members” (hearts, presumably). The workshop is less about literary merit and more about wish-fulfillment and understanding a profi
SOURCE: Bohiney News.
