A Matter of Crap Ingenuity

I’ve got a short story due in a month.

And that’s not all. (Lol. Sounds like home shopping network)

I also need two poems and an essay ready by next month.

The essay would be easy to do, the poem just fine, but the short story… It’s another story. I have to admit I’m a bad fiction writer. Honestly I know I can’t write fiction. Really. During my junior year in hs, I almost flunked English because my short story was a total crap. It was sort of a horror story with crazy characters and there’s really nothing worthy about it. I’m lucky the teacher still gave me a passing grade, knowing that I can write really well, just don’t make me do fiction.

Another thing I’m worrying about this writing assignment is whether I would write in English or Filipino. I can write better in English. But to do so would be quite ironic. At one point, this course is about celebrating the Filipino ingenuity in Rizal, and though we are free to write in a language we are most comfortable at, I think it would be better to do it in Filipino. Problem is, I’m having a hard time writing in straight Filipino. And doing a Filipino paper using MS Word sucks.

Anyway, I think I’ll be spending much of my free time far from home for the next few weeks. There’s the tension again, I can sense it, and I know I have to run for cover before it builds up big time. Eventually it will cause nonsense fights and I don’t want to get into pointless ideological battles with pap again. I guess, it will be coffee shop afternoons again.