The Subtle Whoring Of The Filipino Writer (Ang Pag-Puputa Ng Pilipinong Manunulat)

Filipino writers are among the best of the best all over the world when it comes to flair and passion regarding writing. Unfortunately, scarcity and a poor government who fails in every minimal aspect of taking care of the welfare of its citizens are among the primary reasons in why we, as Filipino writers, engage in the futile search for a meager wage based on our writing skills. The Philippine government has miserably failed in solving all of its economical problems due to the fact that it doesn't do any tangible and credible efforts to address the antiquated problem of education, poverty and corruption of government.

The Philippine government has been sold to foreign principals ever since the United States had brought the rights of colonization from Spain in the late 1890's and as of today, is still the same state as it was then, scrounging for respect from our “masters”. Which puts me back to the main concern of the Filipino writer's plight of having to embarrassingly accept pennies and dimes from arduous writing obligations from principals all over the world. As writers, we are among the top best country with a high degree of English competency in the whole Asian region. We can read and write English, far more better than any of our Asian counter parts even though we are openly treated as slaves in more ways than one.

         (One of my favorite authors who conceptualized "sex, drugs and writing"...William S. Burroughs. The author of "Naked Lunch")

The global accessibility of the Internet has eventually led to further diversify the opportunities of earning added income to those who posses the adept skills in real writing. Unfortunately, honest writers, and I do mean many of them get short changed in regards to the right amount of compensation that should be given to those who truly deserve it in regards to their skills. There is even the frequent intentional misdemeanor of the employers part of making petty reasons not to pay the lowly author as to completely deplete any form of trust regarding such writing endeavors. There are no assurances of any security protecting the Filipino writer from this sort of discrepancy as it is just taken as a social reality that no matter how good you are in what you do, job wise, there is an 80% chance that you will be abandoned after you had done a good job.

Employers who seek out Filipino writers must at least reconsider our plight midst this dwindling morality that is being corroded by utter poverty. We want to earn as badly as the next person who would want to earn an honest day's keep, and we are even willing to do it well beyond the reasonable indicated rate for wages just as long that they be honest about the job that they offer to all Filipino writers. Filipinos are very honest and sincere towards their work and even go an extra mile beyond the responsibility of the job needed just to prove our faithfulness in our mutual respect for our employers.

Another annoying subject is that of those posing as legitimate employers from India and Pakistan, who ask for samples of original writing articles as they will first evaluate it for Copyscape, and then eventually fade off into the darkness, leaving the dumb witted and over trusting Filipino writer wondering what ever happened, as all is too late to realize the truth that his or her article has already been used by the so called employer. We have no way of controlling such matters of employment and it is only by chance that you be so fortunate to encounter an honest employer who will fully fulfill their obligations as honestly as they can. Some lame reasons that I have encountered employers saying that their business is not going so well and that funds can not be provided to pay for services rendered.

On-line writing is a very fulfilling endeavor if your efforts come to fruit in regards to giving informative perspective to the article that you write. Writing is not a lucrative undertaking and will not suffice you financially contrary to all the advertising that you come across the Internet stating otherwise. Be very careful in dealing with employers who are not willing to cross the threshold of trust. Write with your heart and mind first before writing for any other principles other than the truth of the reality of life as money and financial gain can derail you from your divine principles as a writer.

My Ode to The final Days of the respected Art Therein

Writing is a sacred art of conveying words into their proper place and meaning. Simply put to a suggestive thought of how honing our craft of wielding the pen and putting a cascade of incoherent thoughts into a sense of readable content that is perceived by people in an individual point of view. The general idea of writing as a means of supporting ones daily meager existence has always been a great dilemma for all “real” writers, and frankly the emergence of the Internet has made the dilemma even more resounding than ever.

The emergence of so called on-line writing employments had further put a strangle hold on a

writer's credible disposition regarding to their constituted skills and means of a quantitative and meaningful way of imparting a quality filled literary work. Writing was “never” meant to be a lucrative endeavor in its original intended way of somehow divulging an honest message in light of the author's insights and impressions of how we perceive the world around us. The present state that the Internet has made the purist approach to writing somehow vulgar and demeaning as to adjust with the present demand for the craft itself.

Today, writing has been reduced to a bargained  petty flea market like commodity under the

employ of people that need real good writers to facilitate in endowing their own personal interest such as to effectively convey a point regardless of any social importance if ever so. As a writer, I am deeply saddened with such an outcome that it feels like a compromise from putting real essence and quality to a body of work and trying to cope up with the haunting reality that “I need to pay the bills”. Thus a compromise must be made and most of us who truly regard writing as our life are forced to accept this present state in which we must follow suit in order to survive.

“Prostituted” in a way, such a vulgar impertinent gesture to define a once highly revered art form almost as comparative to that of painting. There is no parallel joy that a writer can have than that of a well recognized  distinction of authoring a work in which transverses the boundaries of social and economical standings among fellow human beings. A compensated recognized work that the readers understand regardless of any social inclination beyond personal beliefs and any form of reactive sentiment towards opinionated matters of stark proportions are truly the real achievements of a well crafted writer.

Writing in a way, churns social opinion and stirs the hearts and minds of men to which in their own terms of understanding find a small part of the humanity that makes them what they are amongst the words that a writer tries rationally to impart without siding on any matters that will eventually favour one end of the subject matter at hand. Today's social norms exploits the writer's wit in manipulating words to favour interests other than that of ones own opinion therefore making the irk of traditional purists shake in response in a silent way, with disapproval with the way writing had been used in a rather pungent manner.

Everyday, a writer's struggle to come up with words to feed his soul with original ideas and

emotions are now being paralleled by automation to try to come to par with the writer's natural sense of discernment of his own choosing by shuffling and rearranging words that try to emulate a sense of rationality, hoping that it makes sense to the human mind. The emergence of the “spin robots” that try to manipulate a simple body of literature and re-construct it to make it seem that it was a different article, has put the writer's work in peril. It all seems to be a convenient way to nudge off the necessity of  needing the services of a writer in the sense of being economically convenient.

But by far, I have had the opportunity to have witnessed the capabilities of these so called “spin robots” and if I may say so, they don't even come as near as close to the work of a real writer, thank goodness for that. There seems to be hope yet, as the need for real writers still exists and can still be put to good use even though writers nowadays are put to a less meaningful use and an even less sense of importance. Only a few talented writers remain in this world of ours as though they can be considered as a dying breed of artisans, being replaced by more convenient means and in such a manner, tarnishing the gleaming brilliance of the soulful meaning to the word “writer”.

Who would have thought that automation, in its early conception would have eventually come to the aide of a writer's plight in honing the craft to eventually give an adequate ease as a writer's tool, would turn against the writer in a threatening manner as to slowly render the art of writing to become a dwindling necessity. To some of us that have continued to struggle beyond such trying times, we advocate our skills to the needs of people who recognize the importance of a fairly surviving craft of wordplay, to which we find the inspiration to continue to write and we will not surrender to these “convenient social norms” regarding on what we do best.

Death of the old ways of writing seems eminent and there is no way to avoid that. All left is the love for the clamor  of the old ways of writing as that which can persuade our intellect. If this will be the last gasp of the calling to all adherent writers in the world, let me just say that the new generation will never see the true beauty of the pristine form of writing. It has been my utmost pleasure to have written such a deliverance of the old ways which the future generation will ever hear of such calling, as such as the final words of Shakespeare, Hemingway would have gone without resilience. 

Good bye old world, for it is my greatest debt and gratitude to have known the beauty of the simplicity of your splendour. A tear felt joy to the ages past as it glistens to the harrowing cries of misfortune...Good bye to the golden age of writing..I will miss you so dearly

                  "A heartfelt thanks to all of my literary heroes, I will miss you so dearly"