J.H. Jamorabo
@jh-jamorabo.bsky.social
He/they. Filipino contemporary writer. Still filling my bookshelf. Still finding kapwa—community.
https://medium.com/@jh.jamorabo
https://jhjamorabo.wordpress.com/
https://medium.com/@jh.jamorabo
https://jhjamorabo.wordpress.com/
Kamusta, Bluesky :D
August 1, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Kamusta, Bluesky :D
It’s so important to reach out to your go-to Filipino support group if you’re writing a Filipino book. Many of their stories will fill your cup.
If you find one, please send an invite 🫠
If you find one, please send an invite 🫠
June 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
It’s so important to reach out to your go-to Filipino support group if you’re writing a Filipino book. Many of their stories will fill your cup.
If you find one, please send an invite 🫠
If you find one, please send an invite 🫠
I don’t need to sound pretty, I already do… I wonder how long before I really understand that.
June 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I don’t need to sound pretty, I already do… I wonder how long before I really understand that.
Rewiring Myself After The First Draft: 3 Steps
It’s my first time completing a first draft. I’ve been a writer for five years. I stared at blank pages for minutes, hours, years. I had the brain of a planner, not the hands of a writer. Then, about last month, I sat at the laptop and finished a…
It’s my first time completing a first draft. I’ve been a writer for five years. I stared at blank pages for minutes, hours, years. I had the brain of a planner, not the hands of a writer. Then, about last month, I sat at the laptop and finished a…
Rewiring Myself After The First Draft: 3 Steps
It’s my first time completing a first draft. I’ve been a writer for five years. I stared at blank pages for minutes, hours, years. I had the brain of a planner, not the hands of a writer. Then, about last month, I sat at the laptop and finished a short story. Last week, I finished three more. Then, I finished my book, a collection of four short stories.
jhjamorabo.wordpress.com
June 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Rewiring Myself After The First Draft: 3 Steps
It’s my first time completing a first draft. I’ve been a writer for five years. I stared at blank pages for minutes, hours, years. I had the brain of a planner, not the hands of a writer. Then, about last month, I sat at the laptop and finished a…
It’s my first time completing a first draft. I’ve been a writer for five years. I stared at blank pages for minutes, hours, years. I had the brain of a planner, not the hands of a writer. Then, about last month, I sat at the laptop and finished a…
Want to ugly-cry in Filipino? Watch And The Breadwinner Is on Netflix
June 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Want to ugly-cry in Filipino? Watch And The Breadwinner Is on Netflix
The first book I opened was about a white boy.
The first POC book I opened was about a Chinese American.
The first Filipino book I opened was about a Fil-Am.
I should’ve known reading isn’t a race. It’s adventure. It’s a search.
So I search now. I write now. I will find more Filipino books.
The first POC book I opened was about a Chinese American.
The first Filipino book I opened was about a Fil-Am.
I should’ve known reading isn’t a race. It’s adventure. It’s a search.
So I search now. I write now. I will find more Filipino books.
May 31, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The first book I opened was about a white boy.
The first POC book I opened was about a Chinese American.
The first Filipino book I opened was about a Fil-Am.
I should’ve known reading isn’t a race. It’s adventure. It’s a search.
So I search now. I write now. I will find more Filipino books.
The first POC book I opened was about a Chinese American.
The first Filipino book I opened was about a Fil-Am.
I should’ve known reading isn’t a race. It’s adventure. It’s a search.
So I search now. I write now. I will find more Filipino books.
I keep forgetting the sense of accomplishment after a first draft. A gross jumble of text, but still so much use.
Yeah. I love first drafts now.
Yeah. I love first drafts now.
May 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I keep forgetting the sense of accomplishment after a first draft. A gross jumble of text, but still so much use.
Yeah. I love first drafts now.
Yeah. I love first drafts now.
Any Filipinos here who can chitchat with me about their OFW experience? Writer here trying to expand their knowledge for a short story based on an OFW in Singapore. Any help appreciated!
May 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Any Filipinos here who can chitchat with me about their OFW experience? Writer here trying to expand their knowledge for a short story based on an OFW in Singapore. Any help appreciated!
Have you ever over-edited so much that you notice your brain is so tense and pulsating?
If it is, it’s time for bed 😅
If it is, it’s time for bed 😅
May 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Have you ever over-edited so much that you notice your brain is so tense and pulsating?
If it is, it’s time for bed 😅
If it is, it’s time for bed 😅
Here's something about writing tips: humans love restrictions. So it has always been show don't tell. Plot, don't pants(?). So many don'ts when this whole time, it could've been "show and tell"
May 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Here's something about writing tips: humans love restrictions. So it has always been show don't tell. Plot, don't pants(?). So many don'ts when this whole time, it could've been "show and tell"
Have you guys read any of Mia Manansala's Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mysteries? I just finished Arsenic and Adobo today, and my gosh please don't read this book on an empty stomach or you could end up hungry in bed at 1am like me
April 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Have you guys read any of Mia Manansala's Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mysteries? I just finished Arsenic and Adobo today, and my gosh please don't read this book on an empty stomach or you could end up hungry in bed at 1am like me
A reminder to writers out there that your draft might look like bird poop right now, and that’s fine. It’s a WIP, not the submission.
April 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A reminder to writers out there that your draft might look like bird poop right now, and that’s fine. It’s a WIP, not the submission.
Practice sentences on imagery
April 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Practice sentences on imagery
I might just be such a caveman but Filipino food translated to English sometimes sounds so weird! Tocino = sweetened pork belly? Sinigang = TAMARIND SOUP?
April 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I might just be such a caveman but Filipino food translated to English sometimes sounds so weird! Tocino = sweetened pork belly? Sinigang = TAMARIND SOUP?
Have you guys read In The Country by Mia Alvar yet? It’s good.
April 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Have you guys read In The Country by Mia Alvar yet? It’s good.
Next read: Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay 📖
April 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Next read: Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay 📖
Just finished reading Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay. Just wow. Definitely recommend it.
April 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Just finished reading Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay. Just wow. Definitely recommend it.
If illustrators post WIPs of their art, why don’t writers post drafts of their story? 👀
April 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If illustrators post WIPs of their art, why don’t writers post drafts of their story? 👀
Change of plan: no free short stories in the first half of this year… they’re all connected now and need to be outlined more thoroughly. They’ll likely come out in the second half of 2025.
April 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Change of plan: no free short stories in the first half of this year… they’re all connected now and need to be outlined more thoroughly. They’ll likely come out in the second half of 2025.
I just read about that arrested Russian dickhead in BGC harassing locals. To all tourists, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AREN’T YOUR PLAYGROUND. You guys piss a lot of us off, more than you think.
April 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I just read about that arrested Russian dickhead in BGC harassing locals. To all tourists, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AREN’T YOUR PLAYGROUND. You guys piss a lot of us off, more than you think.
Reposted by J.H. Jamorabo
Yall piss me off so much.. GUARDS!!
*my terracotta army awakens and seizes everyone who has wronged me*
*my terracotta army awakens and seizes everyone who has wronged me*
April 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Yall piss me off so much.. GUARDS!!
*my terracotta army awakens and seizes everyone who has wronged me*
*my terracotta army awakens and seizes everyone who has wronged me*
Practice lines on word choice
April 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Practice lines on word choice
Do Filipinos still read Wattpad 😅? Im getting this sinking feeling we tend to read more non-Filipino works now in this decade.
March 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Do Filipinos still read Wattpad 😅? Im getting this sinking feeling we tend to read more non-Filipino works now in this decade.
Gaps in Beah's Drawing, a short story in a thread:
March 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Gaps in Beah's Drawing, a short story in a thread: