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When I am not writing the kind of stories I want to read, or the poetry that just won't quit, I am a freelance journalist, writer, member of the Manila Critics Circle and one of the judges for the Philippines' National Book Awards.

I worked as an Associate Editor of the Philippines Graphic magazine, where I also handled stories on technology, science, health issues and worked as the Literary Editor, to boot.

When I'm not writing or chasing some news story or the other down, I cook. My first book, in fact, is a cookbook. That, and I'm still waiting for the Mother Ship. :)

Oh, and my short urban fantasy fiction collection, "Maligno Unbound," is up on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075RB8WYM/...

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Alma Anonas-Carpio No coffee. The world ends.

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Alma Anonas-Carpio I cook. Or dance. Or work on my news-gathering and reportage. Or I play with my cat. Or snuggle with my kids. Or I go outside with my arnis sticks and…moreI cook. Or dance. Or work on my news-gathering and reportage. Or I play with my cat. Or snuggle with my kids. Or I go outside with my arnis sticks and work the frustration off that way. Or I hit my heavy bag until I manage to punch or kick a hole or two into the leather.

When all those other activities aren't possible (they usually aren't at three in the morning because, well, that's just for my writing-for-me time), I just keep writing until what I write makes sense. Then I delete the stuff I didn't like.

Alternatively, I put on music and read. I have bookshelves in every room of the house for just this purpose. I also have both an extensive playlist of music and full-to-bursting digital bookshelves on my phones for the same purpose.

Sometimes the voices in my head need the company of voices from other peoples' heads. Shrugs.(less)

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“To love was to regain the capacity to remember a world without names, to recall by virtue of the whorl above the beloved's knucklebones and to blue of the veins beneath the skin the unbearable fragility of mornings in this counrty, to find October odors trapped in the skinfolds between her toes along with the scent of talcum powder and soap and human sweat.”
― Ninotchka Rosca, State of War

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