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I am amazed and humbled to all of the kind responses to my 1st Fiction Novel. Many have requested that I don't just stop here.
When we return from our Cebu vacation in September I may try to write some more additions to this story.
This will make me a good winter project as I look out at the snow!!!
Thanks everyone!!!
Billy (aka aerosick)
Thanks everyone for all of your support. And to those that agree with the Reader's remarks below, remember this was just Fiction!
No young (or old) Filipinas were hurt by my typing fingers! And no Islands were relocated! My story was proof read by my Filipina wife (a teacher) and she kept me from including any of the flying super creatures that live there. This was just a "Fig Newton" of my imagination!!!
Again, Thanks to Everyone!!!
From a Reader:
"If you want to write about a country, the first thing you need to do is read a little about it and then read some more.
This story is so full of mis-information it hurts.
The women of the Philippine during the time you are writing about were in no way as you stated.
If you found one in a remote vlliage that acted as you discribe, she would have been been branded and thrown out of the vllage.
You forgot and maybe do not know, the Philippines is and was a VERY strict Catolic country. You need to write an apology to them and rethnk this story. By the way I know I was married to a philippino was there in the early sixties. Even then it was no easy to meet any women but BAR girls. (whores)."
I will upload Chapter 4 today.
Thanks for all the Feedback !!!
I get some that I reply to and we go back and forth, then I get the dreaded Email "mailer-daemon" saying "that Email is not valid."
I answer every Email I get, just letting y'all know what's happening if you don't hear back from me!
Thanks everyone,
Billy (aka Cpl Blackie)
Thanks for all of the "tips" about the natives travelling from Guam to Davao. Jan said it best:
"Guam is south of Manila and about level with the
Philippines as a whole.
The Maori tribes sailed all across the Pacific in
open boats before Europe was overrun by the Danes
(Vikings)"
If I ever visit Guam I won't worry when it "tips" over, I have an escape route!
It's gonna happen! A politician said so. And they won't lie to us, will they???
That's my joke for the day...
Thanks everyone!!!
Billy aka Cpl Blackie
Anonymous wrote me:
"Might want to check a map. Guam is way the hell
North of the Philippines."
Guam is more easterly from Davao. It's about 2,200 km or 1,400 miles and people on small boats have sailed this route for centuries.
But thanks for your interest and keeping me on track!
Billy (aka Cpl Blackie)
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