Lakangiting garcia biography examples

“DULCE (beauty) plus utile (use) equals effective creative writing.”

Aspiring creative writers found guidance in the words of Lakangiting Garcia, Palanca laureate and a professor of Filipino of the De La Salle University, during the “Malikhaing Pagsulat” seminar sponsored by the UST Publishing House last Feb.

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Like travelers embarking on a journey, Garcia discussed to the young writers creative writing fundamentals, emphasizing the importance of basic formulae which include the writer’s creation of truth, beauty, and goodness as well as the necessary visual, vocal, and verbal elements of any creative work.

According to Garcia, there are three types of thinking towards writing––pre-critical, critical, and post-critical. Pre-critical thinking does not involve decisiveness in writing as he compares it to a reaction on a tap on a shoulder; one doesn’t think about it but merely responds to it.

“Critical thinking gives consideration to the originality of the composition des