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When I returned to university last year, studying creative writing under the tutelage of a great professor of mine, ultimately inspiring my journey in writing and experiencing all that the Espresso Love novel project has to offer now, it had always been the same thing: one little step at a time, without much of anRead more about Literature & the Wind Up Bird Cafe: The World Goes Round[…]
Traditionally, writing and reading is a personal, private and secluded aspect of life. It’s not too often we can find people who operate on the same wavelength, to find those like-minded and similarly talented friends. We might even get weird looks if we start babbling about our favourite author’s cat, the latest plot twist inRead more about Toronto Wattpad Writer’s Meet Up[…]
Had the opportunity to share with Maaja Wentz, a teacher, librarian and author about Espresso Love, cell phone novels, digital technology, multimedia, art and writing, Japanese culture, teaching, student experience, education and its reform. I realize I am probably much more eloquent in writing, and much more redundant and imprecise in conversation, but nevertheless itRead more about Interview (+ Transcript) with Maaja from Creative Teacher Librarian[…]
Espresso Love is officially COMPLETE! Thank you so much for participating on this journey, for your amazing support and wonderful insightful encouragement. You are what made this journey so worthwhile for me. It has been a long journey, I started writing the manuscript in January of 2014 inspired by my experiences and observations in theRead more about Espresso Love COMPLETED, Next Steps, Interviews[…]
“There are symbolic dreams– dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities — realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is boundRead more about Toronto Meet Up, Subjective Idealism, DIG USA, and more[…]
Hello! Here is an accumulative blog post of updates and things for the past few weeks! Don’t worry, I haven’t become an advertisement or something lol, just exciting things to take note of, before I blog about other things — GIVEAWAY EVENT! To celebrate surpassing 100,000 reads (now 130k) and 500 (now 600) followersRead more about Updates: Free Giveaway! eBook! WattParty! OOR Warped! etc[…]
These are the things I usually say to mentor writers and students. 1. Find your self. Writing is self-discovery, discovering what are your deepest convictions, your inner message, your values, your passions, your fears, all of which, even when it’s not conscious to you, will come out subconsciously in your writing. 2. Read, study, researchRead more about Writing Tips: The Condition of the Self[…]
Activity taken from a Wattpad forum thread… I just ranted LOL and it got too long to post.. This is another instance of “mindbleed”. The Art Writer The starving artist comes to mind. The type of writer who writes for passion, despite whether or not the final product is mass marketable or not. The quintessentialRead more about Forum Questions on Art or Business[…]
Espresso Love As of June 11th, I’ve finished the first draft manuscript document of Espresso Love at 168,000 words. At the time, I was absolutely elated. I flew off my seat and ran around and must have did a victory dance but since I was so hyper I might have knocked over a cup inRead more about Please Read Me: Finishing the Novel and the Race Strong[…]
Some really cool things happening! Firstly, today Espresso Love has been chosen by Wattpad as a feature on IndieReader.com right alongside Kobo and Amazon picks, so that kinda feels really neat. Secondly, Rowena Wiseman of Out of Print Writing blog has done an interview with me on Cell Phone Novels 🙂 Espresso Love’s manuscript documentRead more about IndieReader, Interview, Illustrations, and More[…]