A character sketch | The Manila Times
PEOPLE have written me to ask how I could write fiction with the moistness and vividness of dreams? I start with a character sketch, which is the literary equivalent of using pencil and paper to capture an image initially. One such sketch is for a neighbor I remember, back in my childhood days in Basa Air Base, Pampanga, where my father was a military officer.
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