Expressive Writing I

I neglected writing because I was in a limbo: I wasn’t sure if I wanted to devote my time on game development or graphics/manga or writing. I ended up spending little bit of time on each, never really mastering any one of them.
Well, thanks to Michelle, I have given up on graphics dream, my first [...]

Metaphor gone wrong like a kid who was not funny try to come up with a funny line and keep ruining the joke by laughing just before the punch line and thus no one hears the punch line and misses the joke

I got the list from my class yesterday and couldn’t stop cracking up.  Michelle and Leyla didn’t find them so funny but I just couldn’t stop laughing… may be it’s because I can totally imagine myself doing same thing?  No…I am not funny enough to come up with these…  My fav. are #4, #14 and [...]

Stupid Mistake

I am still making same mistakes over and over it seems. Granted I didn’t spend enough time but I still have novice’s belief that my first writing that came out of ‘flow’ is good enough.
Of course it wasn’t

story needs story, an event. I somehow knew this but mine didn’t have that climax. the event [...]

Baen’s Bar and Cutting

So I figured I would read up on submission rules before March and what not…then came across the forum for newbies–the slush pile.
Baen’s Bar (baen.com) actually seem like a wealth of information where I can read up on other people’s post and critiques that go with them.
I haven’t really read up on it but I [...]

2008 Resolution

I have been thinking slowly what I want to accomplish this year. I realized the resolutions and goals I had since 2~3 years ago are still carried forward…mainly because some of them are not something I can do once and be done with…
But it’s still discouraging when I realize I have not made much [...]