Every writer has their own personal set of pet peeves. I’m no different in that regard. However, I also am guilty of a few of them. I’m trying to prevent myself from including them in my writing but they always seem to find their way in. My not liking them doesn’t make them inherently wrong. …

I see you. I may not have seen your work, but I see you. You’re hiding in that dark corner where the shadows of the people you admire converge. I have been acquainted with that corner. It’s where dreams are born. It’s also where dreams are crushed. Stifling your own soul is a cruel thing to …

At the time this post gets published, I would have been blogging for almost three months. I started with two goals in mind: Spend the first month planning posts months in advance Have enough leeway to go back to writing my story The reason that I pre-plan posts is more personal than for efficiency. I reread …

Source: http://nanowrimo.org/ 2016 was my first year out of full-time education. It was also my first attempt at National Novel Writing Month. I never thought to try it before because November usually meant tests, exams and projects.   I actually started NaNoWriMo 2016 about a week late. I had already planned the basic outline about a …

In my post How-to: Consistent Blogging, I said that one of my goals for blogging was to have enough pre-planned posts to give me a bit more leeway to focus on the story I’m writing. I haven’t reached my goal of having 2-3 months worth of posts in advance but I couldn’t wait any longer. …

I think my writing gets a lot better when I’m going through difficult times. My imagery is more vivid and I’m not as verbose as I usually would be. I would normally sit back and mull over ideas until they got large enough to write about. When I got an idea while feeling strong emotions, …

The process of coming up with the characters for Where Dreams are Realised was the biggest how-not-to lesson for me. My characters were initially very stereotypical that even I was annoyed with them. Like, I can see where you’re coming from but you are just the most infuriating people I’ve had the displeasure of imagining. Most …

Where Dreams are Realised was a story that I came up with around June 2016. I started planning and writing in soon after coming up with the idea, then stopped around October 201 6. The reason why I first stopped writing it was because I was busy preparing for both an entrance exam at the …

Not everyone likes reading, but it would be pretty tough to find a person who actually thinks that reading isn’t in any way beneficial to the reader. Reading has the ability to expand your command of the language you’re reading in and develop your ability to empathise with people who lead different lives from you. …