It’s been a while since there have been updates. There has been a long period wandering the creative desert – philosophical, existential, emotional, spiritual crises and so on! My ability to write and read seemed to dry up, and the strike at York University surely didn’t help. I escaped reality through TV shows for a […]
Happy Valentine’s Day! As history and memories and community converges and culminates and catapults into the next stage of life, allow me to share with you once again words from my heart. Last night, I surely had this opportunity in front of many friends, family, readers, fellow writers, hearts and souls at the book launch […]
Snow has hit Toronto. Mid-November, winter has begun. And it won’t be pretty, just like last year. Winter ought to be a season of hibernation, and human beings ought to be in accordance to the natural laws and nature, yet the world tries to be too busy these days. But at least we can pick […]
A while ago, I had the privilege of interviewing Michael Limjoco from Chicago, a fellow featured Wattpad writer, about our common interests in books, Japanese culture and anime, and his insight into the Wattpad community, especially from a marketing viewpoint. He has accumulated over a million views on his fantasy work, and wrote an extensive […]
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 it […]
I had the chance to share with one of my readers and friend on Wattpad over an interview which will be part of their magazine initiative by @TURTLES2001 in the future. I have permission to publish the content here for readers. Some of these ideas maybe often said, while others may be of interest for you! […]
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 the […]
I came across Rowena (@outaprintwriter) on Wattpad a few months ago via her featured novella Bequest and immediately was enthralled because I’ve finally found what I was looking for. I’ve searched throughout Wattpad for writers of literary fiction who truly shine with sophisticated visionary narrative voices, dig deep right into the soul and touch on profound themes […]
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 quintessential […]
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 document […]
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