Storytailor

Diem Judilla is a professional creative writer in English, based in Cebu Philippines A fictionist who specializes in story concepts, short stories, stageplays and screenplays. This blog features his portfolio of projects.

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The function of the first draft is to help you figure out your story. The function of every draft after that is to figure out the most dramatic way to tell that story. Darcy Pattison

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Look at your problems as problems & they’ll continue to hold you down. See them as blessings in disguise & that’s what they truly become.

TheDailyPositive.com (via thedailypozitive)

It's not a problem unless you make it a problem.

It stays a problem if you keep it a problem.

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On Passion

Passion... Let your passion be your compass, and no matter what you do, no matter that these seem like chores, these build up the road that'll take you where you want to be or build you up to be the person you want to be. Your passion as your compass, you'll never get lost no matter the obstacles you face or the side roads you have to take.

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Exclusive picture of a guy in heaven

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Death by bunnies

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http://ow.ly/kOs4z

Sir Arthur, thank you for Benedict Cumberbatch...

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What every screenwriter has to know... an improperly formatted screenplay is the work of an amateur. You want to be a pro, start now.

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Short stories by O. Henry

The anniversary of the life that was O. Henry's.

Thank you for the stories, all taught me that Life's greatest surprises are people.

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Education is an opportunity for learning. Sure knowledge can be found anywhere, and a school may just be a building but where else can one learn to recognize Knowledge if one comes across it? One may not learn everything with classmates, from a teacher, in a school but one can damn sure learn how to think like a sieve and separate gold from gravel.

-- Diem Judilla, Storytailor.

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I do try to think about the world, about the power of my labor and what I can add to the world.  I ask myself: “what is needed?” Sometimes these themes infect my stories and projects.  Sometimes they effect my polices and methods.  Sometimes they shape my commitments and relationships.  I think they make my films better.  I think they could make your life better too.  I think if we let them into our lives and art and business, we will build a better world together.  At least I am willing to hope that they all will.  And give my life, labor, and love to the effort to prove they might.

Oftentimes, I do think on my place, my purpose and the power of my passion.

Ted Hope was talking about film, but what is film but a medium for Story?

I hope and I would endeavor not to rely on controversial, radical themes or techniques just to provoke attention or notoriety to the labor I've chosen to do.

Following my bliss, I do want to make my life, my community, my people, and the world better ...

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A Writer-in-Progress...

WIP... I'm a Writer-in-Progress... aside from my job, I've been busy helping other writers on their works, student filmmakers on their projects and taking classes in Cinema Studies this summer...

For fun... I've been developing genre strategies for personal use.

A wonderful thing about taking Cinema Studies is that you get exposed to a lot of thinking and theories about content and form. Clearly, great minds have been cerebrating up the wazoo on genre, on conventions, on audience perceptions, a lot of information and ideas thought through and set into text  for decades and half-centuries.

Time to test the theories, prove it through a project.

Stay tuned.

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Ferdinand E. Marcos 10th President of the Philippines During His time as President, the Philippines is; -Richest country in Asia -First to have Airport in Asia -First to have Train in Asia -No.1 exporter of Rice and Sugar in the world -Drugs are not rampant and drinking alcohol on the side of the roads is prohibited -No Foreigners to Buy Real Estate in Philippines -The exchange of USD 1.00 = PHP 1.50 -The only president that does not make use of a cheat sheet When giving a speech here and abroad Projects accomplished and not just promised of: -Manila International Airport -LRT-1 (1st in Southeast Asia) -Heart Center of the Philippines -Kidney Center -Nayong Filipino -Bataan Nuclear Power Plant -Coconut Palace -PICC -Philippines Lung Center -Film Center -Golden Mosque for Muslims -Folks Arts Teatre , SLEX and NLEX (1st in Southeast Asia) San Juanico Bridge (c) to the owner

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Let me Refute the Claims.

Ferdinand E. Marcos

10th President of the Philippines

During His time as President, the Philippines is;

-Richest country in Asia (Actually, Second to Japan)

-First to have Airport in Asia (Actually true, but it was built in Makati during the American Period. The Runways are Ayala and Paseo de Roxas now and the terminal is the Filipinas Heritage Library Old Building)

-First to have Train in Asia (Actually True, but Philippine National Railways is already running from Manila to Dagupan way back the SPANISH PERIOD)

-No.1 exporter of Rice and Sugar in the world (Not Marcos would claim credit for this)

-Drugs are not rampant and drinking alcohol on the side of the roads is prohibited

-No Foreigners to Buy Real Estate in Philippines

-The exchange of USD 1.00 = PHP 1.50

-The only president that does not make use of a cheat sheet When giving a speech here and abroad (True)

Projects accomplished and not just promised of:

-Manila International Airport (This was inaugurated 1961 okay) http://www.arkitektura.ph/buildings/manila-international-airport

-LRT-1 (1st in Southeast Asia) Only one was built during Marcos Times but the planning was way back before him. Ever heard of Tranvias or Tramcars?

-Heart Center of the Philippines

-Kidney Center

-Nayong Filipino

-Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

-Coconut Palace

-PICC

-Philippines Lung Center

-Film Center

-Golden Mosque for Muslims

-Folks Arts Teatre

, SLEX and NLEX (1st in Southeast Asia)

Supposed NLEX and SLEX should Terminate at Laoag and Sorsogon, but not they are still at within 200 km radius from Manila.

San Juanico Bridge

(c) to the owner

PS: Please Kids, do not believe anything from the Net.

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^ FINALLY! I’ve been waiting for someone to disprove this post. Thank God there are still people on tumblr who actually think.

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Lest we forget, the victims of Marcos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe9DV1-OqYM

No claims of "economic gains" are worth everyone's equality, liberty and justice.

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The palest ink is better than the best memory...

 -- a Chinese proverb

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This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

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I Love Life...

Life, on the other hand, ...

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Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

-- Junichiro Tanizaki

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The Natural Way of Telling a Story

Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story.

The test of whether or not a writer has divined the natural shape of his story is just this: after reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.

-- Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17, interviewed by Pati Hill for The Paris Review, Spring-Summer 1957 No. 16

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The work of a writer...

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"Only the act of resistance resists death, either as a work of art or as a human struggle."

French philosopher Gilles Deleuze on the "act of creation", a meditation on the "mysterious connection between the work of art and the act of resistance."