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Hi friends! I’m super excited to share with you a new project! I’ve been part of the hanfugirls group for a while (you may remember the posts in my World of Genji series) and we’ve recently decided to write a book, so of course I had to share about it here! The title of the… Read More New Project & Collaboration: the Hanfugirl Book
Yup, exactly what the title says. Very fittingly, I hit the 50k mark on my second write-in. It’s pretty satisfying to start and end NaNoWriMo on the same way. One thought: I just finished Cal Newport’s Deep Work (review to come) and I realised that what he says about regularly using your mental faculties is… Read More I won NaNoWriMo 2019!
Last week of NaNoWriMo and I’m so happy to still be on track! I broke the 40k mark today so if I can stick to the same pace that I’ve been doing, I can definitely hit 50k words by Saturday. I’ve also put up a little bit of what I’ve written on Wattpad – it’s… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 4: Almost There
I’m a little late with this update because yesterday involved a lot of moving between countries (which sounds impressive until you realise it just involves getting stuck in the causeway jam between Singapore and Malaysia). I did get about 450 words in so I decided not to push it at night – I want to… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 3: Staying the Course
Word Count: 15,700 words If we leave out today’s word count, I’m pretty much on track for NaNoWriMo. I missed a day, but I managed to do a bit more than 1,667 every day so I managed to catch up. Unlike before, I can’t really knock out 1,667 words in one sitting. I’ve found it… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 2: Identifying the reason for NaNoWriMo
We’re on Day 3 of NaNoWriMo and 440 words away from being on track. So far, I’m working on a zombie Singapore story (I don’t think it’s dystopian in the sense that it’s not really about survival. It just happens that there are zombies and it has to be managed) and so far the story… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 1: Is the 2019 Storybundle Worth It?
Wow I haven’t done a post like this in years! Three years, to be exact. I logged into the NaNoWriMo site to make a new project and realised that my last NaNoWriMo project was from 2016. I’ve pretty much lost the daily writing habit sometime in the last three years, so I’m hoping that this… Read More NaNoWriMo 2019, Anyone?
A/N: I was listening to the Dark Histories podcast on Bridget Cleary and wondered what it would have been like to be Bridget during this time. But I’ve also been reading The Tale of Genji, so when I started writing, the idea of the hannya (jealousy demon) and what things must have been like for… Read More [Short Story] Hannya
I don’t normally do self-promo stuff here because it’s not my style, but I’m having a year-end promo! I moved to KDP Select this year, since I wasn’t putting in the effort to make it wide, and thought that Christmas would be the perfect time to give stuff away. So I’m giving The Nutcracker King… Read More Christmas Promo (17th to 19th December)
November’s almost over and I haven’t written a thing. I feel a bit guiltier than usual, since November’s NaNoWriMo, which is the perfect reason for me to write. But I definitely haven’t written anything close to 50,000 words. In fact, the only thing I wrote was another story about my grandmother – I’ve been writing… Read More [Short Story] Babies Don’t Drink Coffee