Comments and Feedback

Comments and Feedback


- I like it tita. Keep on posting... (and keep on reading…)
- Naghihintay, nasasabik at nag-aabang na kami ng susunod pa. (marami pang kasunod, huwag kang mag-alala!)
- winner ito! sana everyday may bagong entry para may babasahin ako araw-araw. (twice a week? Pwede…)
- Thanks for doing this, until next blog. (do tell other interested Pinoys)
- may antas ang ating pagkatao kung saan si Dalisay ay ako,
ako ay ikaw; ikaw, ako ay iisa. (kay Anonymous, believe ako sa sinabi mo, sino ka ba?)
- enjoy ako sa pagbasa but I don't have any comments alam mo naman na mahina tayo sa pagsusulat. (basta enjoy ka, okay lang!)
- I enjoyed reading it. Please keep it up. Very entertaining (abangan mo ang iba pang kwento, closer to home!)
- I am downloading the article to a folder in my computer. (that’s fine, kaya pwedeng basahin at balik-balikan)
- Ang galing nyo po talaga Tita Eve! (ay, halatang kamag-anak!)
- Wow believe na believe na ako. (kailan ko ba isusulat ang kwento mo?)
- Kumirot sandali ang sakit ng puso ko. Ang kwentong ito, may kaunting hawig sa aking nadamang pagmamahal nuong akoy teenager pa. (tama si Anonymous. may antas ang ating pagkatao kung saan si Dalisay ay ako, ako ay ikaw; ikaw, ako ay iisa.)
- naaliw ako sa pagbabasa. parang naala-ala ko ang mga panahon nang Mills and Boon pa ang binabasa namin sapagkat romantiko ang kwento. (Mills and Boon kayo, kami ay Emilie Loring noon)
- Beautiful sad story. It reminds me of some of the faces of our classmates expressing shyness yet filled with radiant smiles. (Yes… sad…)
- Crushes, I have a few…….1st n foremost, Ano na nga ba his name? (am glad the kwento made you go back memory lane)
- Kung meron lang tayong ganyang kakulay na pag-ibig nang mga panahong 'yon, sana'y matatalakay mo rin sa mga kwento mo. Meron akong alam, pero…(off limits, alam ko!)
- Tunay ngang kahanga-hanga ang pagibig ni Dalisay, at tunay ding nakakalungkot. (ganyan talaga ang buhay…)
- Thanks for sending this story of Dalisay and Ramon Please continue sending this kind of story. I feel homesick! (Para bang kahawig ng buhay mo?)

I have been writing “kwentos” since the early Sixties, but I could count in the fingers of one hand the number of “fan mail” that I have received. Yet the feedback about my writing was quite good, if I may say so myself. Of course, hindi naman literary ito, but I hope that it is still a notch above the usual romance story. I tried. Kumbaga ay love story with a difference.

No fan mail, but I do have hordes of “tagahanga” among the Tabang, Guiguinto and Sta. Isabel, Malolos folks (panay kamag-anak!). And of course, mga kaiskwela at kapit-bahay at kasama sa dormitoryo. Na laging nag-aabang ng aking mga kwento. At ako’y ipinagmamalaki sa tuwina – writer ‘yan! (Kuno...)

My first fan mail came from Cagayan de Oro city, from a teacher in Pilipino at the Xavier University. She told me she was using my kwento and nobela which was then being serialized in Liwayway in her teaching the national language. Siguro, sa creative writing.

Another fan mail came from a young girl who wanted to be friends with me and who wanted to be a writer like me.

A third fan mail was sent thru the “Pitak ng mga Mambabasa” in Liwayway asking if I was still single and unattached. It came from Saudi.

The last one was a guy who liked the kwento I wrote, but questioned the Biblical aspect I wrote in there.

And once, a noted writer, a professor in creative writing in an exclusive school who had a column in a weekly English magazine critiqued my kwento (among others) published that month in Liwayway. The way I began my kwento daw is a no-no in writing. Was I downhearted! Of course, at another time, he included one particular kwento in his ten best list for the month. Win some, lose some!

The few times I learned that my readers liked my kwento and nobela were the few times I came face to face with some of them. Talagang nakatataba ng puso!

There was this professor at Bulacan State University (still BSU then) I met at the house of a classmate. When we were introduced, he asked if I was the writer of the nobela that came out in Liwayway with such title. I said yes and he began discussing the said nobela which he said he liked very much, reciting back to me the exact dialogue of my main characters. How he praised the conduct of one character as if she was a real person!

Then there was the sister of a classmate. At a chance meeting, she told me she could still recall a kwento I wrote years ago where the main character loved the poem – I would be true for there are those who trust me – and my classmate’s sister recited the poem to me!

And another sister of a classmate lamented no end and was heartbroken that her favorite guy in my nobela did not win the heart of my bida!

Also, there was this feedback that came from a very unlikely person – the next generation. My son attended a Mowelfund seminar and met a young attendee. When the young girl learned that I was his mother, she exclaimed that she was into arts and writing and whatnots because she was an avid fan of my kwento and nobela. She asked for my authograph on an anthology where one of my kwentos was included. O, baka may crush lang sa anak ko!

The latest was from a professor in Filipino at the University of the Philippines whom I met at a book launching. A writer herself, she was the author of many books about Angono, a picturesque town in Rizal. She said she just loved my latest nobela (I have written only two) and elected herself, in a text message to me as not only tagahanga, but president of my fan club (dalawa naman yata silang miyembro.

Tunay na nakatataba ng puso ang makatanggap ng mga ganitong reaksiyon sa aking mga sinulat. That is why I thank everyone who took time to send a line or two on how the kwento of the month “affected” them. Again, salamat, salamat, salamat!

Abangan ang kwento ng buwan ng Marso!