January 2012
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I was re-reading some of the romance novels that I used to read and it feels… tidy. I’ve not read the romance genre for a number of years and in that time, I guess my expectations for stories are different now. I want stories and characters I can relate to, plot lines that are in shades of grey instead of just black and white. I guess that’s what happens when you read different...
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What do you do when you have writers block?
Cross-posted from my main blog.
Do you just sit there, staring at the blank page or screen, willing the words to flow?
Do you just let your stream of conciousness fill the page with inane thoughts and babbling?
Do you drink copious amounts of coffee, hoping the caffeine will jar something lose? Or that the frequent trips to the porcelain bowl will help you think?
Do you sit in the sun,...
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Is it unreasonable to be pissed off?
When the bookstore shelves Mercedes Lackey’s Tales of the 500 Kingdoms series under romance? Sure, they’re published by LUNA, which is under Harlequin who publishes romance novels, but do most of us read the 500 Kingdoms for the romance? I know I don’t.
I read it because, like the Elemental Masters series, 500 Kingdoms was a retelling of the fairy tales. The romance was a...
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Six word story #11
Meet new people, fall in love.
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Six word story #10
Coffee, a gift from the gods.
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six word story #9
Human biology, it’s all about sex.
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six word story #8
She stabbed him and ran like hell.
November 2011
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Science fiction author Anne McCaffrey dies at 85 →
I feel like I lost a close friend and I can’t help but grieve her passing. As the writers I love pass on, one by one, I feel like we’re losing something special. I know that when Mercedes Lackey’s time comes, I’d be bawling.
October 2011
10 posts
I can’t write indoors. My urge to write on seems to come when I’m sitting out in the open, with the sun scorching down on me.
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six word story #7
Must not drink all the coffee.
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Six word story #6
Pearl necklace, not what you think.
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Story snippet: Popping the cherry
She held in in her hand, marvelling at the perfect roundness of it. She loved how smooth it felt in her hand; warm and blood red. She brought it to her lips, kissing it, rubbing the smoothness against her lower lip. She licked the smooth skin, tasting the slight sweetness of its juices. Holding it by the stem, she popped it into her mouth. She let it roll against her tongue, warming it, savouring...
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Six word story #5
Bright sunny day. Time to relax.
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Six word story #4
Ran out of coffee. I’m sad.
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Six word story #3
Heavy metal doesn’t drown out idiots.
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Six Word Story #2
She wanted coffee but there’s none.
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Six Word Story
He broke her. She killed him.
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Starting afresh
Every year, as I gear up for NaNoWriMo, I get a new notebook to plot and plan for that year’s novel. This year is no different.
I’d gone to the little hipster store to look at notebooks and there so many pretty ones. I was tempted by the lovely feline covered ones or even the thick hand bound ones but in the end, I decided to be practical and ended up at a normal bookstore and got...
June 2011
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January 2011
3 posts
harperofthedandelions asked: Ah, You must read Changeless and Blameless!
Also, Gail's blog is fantastic and full of delightfully victorian and steampunkish things :)
I read the whole series (thus far) and it is wonderful!
Also, Gail's blog is fantastic and full of delightfully victorian and steampunkish things :)
I read the whole series (thus far) and it is wonderful!
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Story snippet: The First Taste
She stared at it, the thing in her hand. It was warm, making her sigh. She had heard all about it, how it felt to some people; silky, smooth, strong, spicy, musky and every combination of it. She had led a very sheltered life and had never had the opportunity to try it. Now that she was no longer living at home, she could finally give it a try.
She brought it to her mouth, letting it rest...
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Peeved off
I was reading a couple of short stories today and came to a story that while it seems interesting, had one thing in it that pissed me off enough that I just stopped reading. The story had a number of Chinese characters incorporated into the story, without any translation or anyway of reading it. I’m not of Chinese decent. I neither speak nor read Mandarin so having these characters in the...
December 2010
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10 Things Writers Know →
the-write-idea:
10. Writing is easy. Writing well takes work.
9. It takes longer than a week to write 80,000 words.
8. Fiction means made-up. I’m not my sleuth, nor are you one of my characters.
7. Just because I’m staring into space doesn’t mean that I’m not working.
6. Characters take on lives of their own.
5. You never really get a day off.
4. Just because a writer asks the right...
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Erotica Short: Mine
She hummed as she did the dishes, enjoying the feel of warm soapy water over her hands as she rinsed the dishes in the sink. She knew that he was leaning against the kitchen entrance, watching her. She could feel his gaze burning into her back. When she placed the clean dishes on the rack to dry, she felt him wrap his arms around her waist, placing a soft kiss on the juncture of her shoulder and...
November 2010
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The end of NaNoWriMo
It’s the last two days of November and most of my friends have already completed their 50k word goal and validated for the Purple Bar. Strangely enough, I don’t feel regret or even guilt that I didn’t complete the goal this year. It’s been one hectic semester and I had choices to make just so that I don’t flunk out of school.
Anyway, for those of you who won...
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Erotica Short: Wet
Something I wrote on the fly:
She missed the way he smelled, that subtle manly scent that was all him, mixed in with his aftershave and cologne. Watching him undress, she felt her mouth go dry as he slipped the shirt off his broad shoulders. Her eyes couldn’t help but follow the hair trail from his navel, down his flat tummy and disappearing into the waistband of his jeans. She wrapped her arms...
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NaNoWriMo 2010 Update
It has not been going well. It’s like 2005, 2006 all over again, only this time, it’s not because I don’t have the will to do it, it’s just that school and work has been taking up so much of my time and energy that I’ve got nothing else for NaNoWriMo.
It’s almost half way through the month and I’m so far behind the word count that I’m not going to...
October 2010
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From the NaNovel
First sentence:
“The old dying man lay on a dirty old pellet in the middle of the large living room; his skin wrinkled and paper thin, his breaths coming out in shallow gasps, his lips cracked and bleeding, and his unseen bedsores were leaking putrid pus, the stench filling up the room like an unwanted guest.”
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Plottings
I’d initially came up with a plot for this year’s NaNo; an urban fantasy/crime. Then I realised that it was so much like the plot for Elektra that I had to change it to something else. As much as I like writing clichéd, Mary-Sue plots, I don’t really want to write something so similar to the movie.
So now, I’m back to square one but I’m thinking of expanding the...
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Count Down to NaNoWriMo: 6 Days
It took the longest time for me to decide on a plot and finally I have. It’s totally clichéd but for me, NaNo is the time for me to indulge in the clichés and the Mary-Sue-ness of everything. I just find it totally fun. I don’t even have a working title as of yet but it’ll come to me. Eventually.
This year, I’ve not had the time to actually do some research and I’m...
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Awesomeness! NaNoWriMo is almost upon us!
I know that I’m not the only one who’s excited about this. I’ve already logged in to the NaNoWriMo site and left a trail of Hellos! in the forums, which is at the moment somewhat dead, since it’s still early days of October. Not that many vet WriMos are back to login to their accounts and not many newbies have signed up for this year’s NaNoWriMo.
This will be my 6th...
September 2010
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Sometimes all you need is a muse
In a previous post, I said that I’ve not written anything much lately but I’m hoping that the way things are going, I’m really, really hoping hard that the writing and creative juices are starting to flow again. Over the last three weeks, I’ve written and posted more entries in the main blog than I did in the whole of August; and it wasn’t just some token video posts...
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Can't read, can't write, can't literate
I can’t write. I can’t sit down and let the words flow. It’s getting harder and harder to put the thoughts into words. Even with the blog posts, I’m not writing it the way I used it. There’s no snark, sarcasm or even bitchiness. It’s just so, blah.
I can barely string two sentences together without feeling distracted and the need to want to do something else....
August 2010
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No such thing as too many notebooks
(via OmarC)
I have a note book for plots, a book for random stories, a black book for thoughts and a book for adventury things I do with my friends. Even so, I need more. So much more.
I want one for each genre of stories; fantasy, horror and erotica. Especially erotica. Don’t ask why.
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July 2010
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Not enough steam for my punk
I have about a week to come up with a short story for a steampunk anthology. I’ve been procrastinating but mostly due to the fact that I have no idea where to start. I’ve only known about the steampunk genre quite recently and I have no read enough of it to have a good idea where to start.
Most of the stories I’ve read are all set in the 1800s in England, in the Victorian era....
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Perfect Ending To A Date
“I had a great time tonight,” he said, smiling at her, sending the butterflies in her tummy fluttering just a little harder.
“So did I,” she replied shyly. She wanted to tell him that it was the best date that she had been on in a long time, that she thought that he was really cute when he laughed and spilled popcorn all over himself, that she liked his cologne, that she...
June 2010
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Why getting genre fiction published in Singapore... →
Do you know what’s accepted here? Literature-ish, diaspora, expatriate, ghost stories erotica. With a dash of self-help assessment books and the trial and angst of being an X in the time of X. (I’m not including children’s books in this because it’s under a different category but they do still need support too.) At this point you might go “PFFFT, that’s not true!” but hah! Why don’t you check out...
May 2010
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March 2010
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Currently reading: In 5 Easy Steps by Kit-Wye Lum →
An Asian chic lit romance I picked up at the local book store. Click on the link for more details.
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Story Sprints: Blood On The Office Floor
I thought I’ll continue from a story starter that I did here.
I felt the pencil pierce through the membranes of his eyes with a popping sound, followed by a braying howl from my victim’s mouth. His blood poured down his face as he stood up from his chair, clutching his face and screaming; the 2B pencil sticking out from his eye socket.
“She stabbed me! The crazy bitch stabbed...