haveyouseenthisgirl

When I first got into Wattpad, I read stories just for the mere fun of it. Again, same complaints with the sentence construction, grammar, and everything else. Pero para sa kwento, para sa kilig, binabasa ko lang. But when I read your work, I was pleasantly surprised. I saw the effort to maintain your sentences cohesive, clean, and comprehensible. I’m not that fluent in English, so I can’t just  judge other people’s English skills. Pero yung pati sa Tagalog, mali-mali? Kaya sobrang nagustuhan ko ang “Voiceless” mo. Because I saw the desire to produce a quality work. That, and the plot. It’s nothing new - fan and idol who ended up with each other - but you added so many elements to it that it became fresh and more interesting. I also like the consistency of the main characters. I like how you developed each of them. Momo was foolishly in-love, and you made her that way until the end. Which was absolutely necessary because to generate that much hate, one needs to be in-love that much too. As for Sync, I think it’s only right that, prior to the epilogue, you really emphasized that he’s not yet in-love with Momo. I mean, we’re all witness to how cruelly he treated her at times. And you’ve reiterated many times how deeply he loved Iris, to the point where he’d turn a blind eye to her obvious misdeeds and doubt his friendship with his band-mates. I think that’s consistency. Surely, for all those months he’d been obsessing about her, surely he wouldn’t be able to move on that easily? No matter how sweet and caring Momo was, it’s just not possible to completely move on. Which brings me to Kevin Sy, another really consistent character. I really dislike stories where the third party is hopelessly in-love with the female lead, and in the end, he finds someone else. True, that’s a  just ending and all, a happy ending for everyone, but I don’t think that’s how it really works. So, I guess, you can say that what I love most about your story is the fact that you stayed true to your characters. I’m a writer as well (sadly, though, I can’t write any of those kilig moments. That’s just not me. That’s why I read a lot of these Tagalog flicks, hoping those scenes would rub on me and I’d be able to write them someday), and I know that when a writer develops a character, it’s not always the writer who’s in control. The character becomes alive. He speaks to the writer. He tells the writer of his likes, of his love, of his life. The writer becomes merely ‘the’ instrument.