Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!

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I hated the thought of writing when I was a kid. Actually up to the age of 10, I pretty much hated reading and anything to do with books. This was until I started reading Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. From then on, my school’s library was my refuge. A few years later, someone introduced me to ( Read more... )

How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you’re writing about fictional places)?

Creating characters are fairly easy for me. When characters pop into my head, they’ll have one of two tags attached: Throwaway and Keepers. Throwaway characters are those who appear for the first time and then disappear. Keepers tend to require ( Read more... )

How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
Hmm… most of my fiction tends to take place in one universe, so I don’t really have a problem when it comes to characters. In fact, it’s almost like watching a movie or following a TV serial or manga. There are three main characters, but they are not the complete focus of the entire ( Read more... )

Finally a meme I wouldn’t mind doing!

Writing during Nanowrimo remains my favourite, but if we’re talking about the universes I’ve been dabbling in, then the Nano I did two years ago remains my favourite. Mainly because for some reason, a lot of things happened, and they happened FOR THE RIGHT reason. Like this piece of dialogue between Naoko and ( Read more... )

Been meditating almost on a constant basis for the past 6 weeks. 43 days if I’m not wrong, though if you consider the days I missed it would be perhaps closer to 35 days or so? In any case, I been doing Primordial Sound Meditation over the past few weeks and the results have been nothing if not interesting.

Some things that have happened so far:

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Got linked to this first, by IN. Then I read the actual article.

If a writer is afraid of writing about us due to all the weight this task carries, and if this fear thus renders that writer unable to write, I do not think it is our obligation to reassure and soothe and praise said writer. I do not think we should muzzle our anger out of ( Read more... )

Why, Hallo Thar, Lang! You’re late, but perfect timing! Heheheheheeeeee~

Also, I realise I need to change the year. I wrote the Script Frenzy challenge as 2009 instead of 2010. Whoops!

Original entry as appearing at Reach Into Your Soul.

The story based on the song is done. Now to give it a day’s rest, edit it in the morning, and then send it off to my beta readers.

Original entry as appearing at Reach Into Your Soul.

“He bound her with chains of longing. With desire and lust of power, did his desire overcome her freedom. He sought to restore to life his mistakes. For her crimes, did she deserve punishment, and such a one she sought, but more than that she was punished.”

What does the above scenario sound like to you?

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If you’re a writer or consider yourself a writer, do you also like working with your hands? I’m talking things like knitting, cooking, crafting (creating cosplay props count), gardening, DIY, repairing stuff, etc.

If you do, then what’s your passion? What do you do besides giving in to the all-consuming master that is writing?

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