Writing Notes

  • Rini & Butler: Butler through Rini

    He’s kind of a weirdo. I can’t tell if he has any interest in the plants or if he seriously only cares for them because it’s for me. But he touches them so gently. His fingers moving over their leaves… Continue reading

    Rini & Butler: Butler through Rini
  • Rini & Butler: Take Aim

    Rini & Butler hit 100 pages. I think this is the fastest and longest that I’ve committed to an extended piece without taking a break. It’s sitting at 129 pages at the moment. 22 August is its birthdate. In the… Continue reading

    Rini & Butler: Take Aim
  • Starting ‘Rini & Butler’

    Today. I’m going to start setting up my notebook and writing Rini & Butler (that’s the name I’ve chosen for now). With this piece, I have a few professional/personal development aims that I want to achieve that are outside submitting… Continue reading

    Starting ‘Rini & Butler’
  • History of Meanjin — a Starting Point

    Before I go and start borrowing books on it, I wanted to check online resources, as they’re sometimes a better place to find a culmination of information that’s otherwise been ignored by standard places of education and knowledge—that information being… Continue reading

    History of Meanjin — a Starting Point
  • “Just Making Stuff Up”: the Basics of Character

    When I say “the Basics of Character”, I mean a snapshot picture of them: their appearance. What they look like without any physical moving characteristics and without considering what’s on the inside. Everything discussed in this post also isn’t recommended… Continue reading

  • What’s my process so far? — A Woman’s Conquest

    For A Woman’s Conquest I already have a written synopsis because I’ve been working on it for a while. It began as a pet project, and so I ran away with the synopsis, it didn’t need to have a lot… Continue reading

    What’s my process so far? — A Woman’s Conquest
  • How “X” Saves Me in Writing

    I read an enormous amount of manhua and manga, and one thing that I noticed a while ago they do is put an “X” for anything that they’re being vague about and don’t necessarily need the details of. Company names,… Continue reading

    How “X” Saves Me in Writing
  • Different Things, Here and There

    I’m often adding to my Writing Notes (a document that I jot things down in when a scene or character or complete synopsis strikes me), but I have been continuing on with The Writer’s Bookshelf. I’ve also been writing more… Continue reading

    Different Things, Here and There
  • Four Weeks, First Month

    It feels like I just started the week, to be honest. February is tomorrow and I feel like it’s still mid-January. Though it means I’m moving faster towards moving out … I hope the rest of the year isn’t a… Continue reading

    Four Weeks, First Month
  • Short Answer is: Phantom Adventures

    I have been physically writing anything for a while, with work hours picking up and the end of the semester having come and then waiting on results and celebrating different events. It has been a little hard trying to get… Continue reading

    Short Answer is: Phantom Adventures