Some updatia as I try to work out an equilibrium between work and non-work life: My story "Cog-Work Cat" is in The Best of Everyday Fiction III: here. I love the story. It evolved from something steampunk to something totally different ( Read more... )

Suffered an attack of the emo/blah... but I am feeling much better now. I do not need approval from other people. I do not need validation ( Read more... )

I sit here, staring at the computer, wondering what to write. My bronchitis (boo, hiss!) came back and I have spent a couple of uncomfortable days and nights coughing my lungs out. Hot soups are an immense boon/help/salve ( Read more... )

Common themes:
flight, phoenix, light, transformation/transfiguration, race, culture, biculturalism, feminism, gender, rootlessness, rootedness, belonging, wolf/shifter.

EDIT: trees, plants, gardening, coming-of-age.

What's yours?

The icon is actually a photograph I took when I visited the Botanical Gardens a while back. It was raining heavily and we were taking refuge under a shelter.

It pretty much describes todayAutumn time. Monsoon time ( Read more... )

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P.L.A.N

I become an author (a real honest-to-Goddess author), I will not become arrogant and pretentious.

'Nuff said.

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hereFair enough. But first the media has to stop reinforcing the doom-and-gloom trend. It is there, it is true but they have a responsibility to the people too: the news need not to be sadness all the time. People are influenced by the media and vice versa. The media has to be aware of this fact ( Read more... )

Do writers and even artists have to pander to the whims and desires of their fans?

Where does the Asian (as in 'ethnically' Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc) stand in the world of the otherwise imperialist White Victorian world of Steampunk? How do Asians perceive or interpret Steampunk?

And... I am off to do Sunday birthday things. ;)