and… sent
Posted in short stories on Sep 11th, 2008
Can I say that revisions to an existing story are harder than just writing a new one? But I have revised and resubmitted. Now off to rest my bleeding eyeballs.
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
Someone turn me in; for the abuse and overuse; of the semi-colon.
gush gush
Posted in season of rains on Sep 6th, 2008
Is it seemly for a writer to love her own book as much as I’m loving Season of Rains right now? I just did a read-through of it prior to massive revisions. And instead of compiling a long list of all that’s broken, I just sat and chuckled over my own witty dialogue and turns [...]
stranger than fiction
Posted in random on Sep 4th, 2008
The Husband (who apparently trawls the Internet looking for random trivia) sent me this item about a natural rock pool at the very top of a giant waterfall in Africa. It is appropriately nicknamed “The Devil’s Swimming Pool”. And this, folks, is one of the reasons why I read so much non-fiction. There’s nothing like [...]
the secrets that we keep
Posted in guilt, motivation on Sep 3rd, 2008
I had a revelation last week while I was doing a bit of freewriting on why I write. Amidst the usual reasons of megalomania (“I am GOD of this world! Tremble, all ye minions! Bwahahaha!”) and delusions (“The voices in my head told me to write this”) of grandeur (“I will be rich and famous!”), [...]
the big bad blank page
Posted in creativity, drawing, inspiration on Sep 1st, 2008
Hello. *raises hand* I’m a writer, and, um… I’m afraid of a blank page. For several months now, I’ve talked/dreamed/blogged about taking up drawing as my secondary hobby (which means that in terms of priorities it has to fall way below things like “putting away laundry” and “cleaning the oven”). I’ve bought and borrowed how-to [...]