On Monday, January 24, 2011 the No Choice but to Follow poets will be doing a presentation at this school. Read about what happened.
Writing isn't like riding a bicycle. I'm finding that I can't just get on and go. Baby steps…baby step.
As my goal of 50,000 words by the end of November becomes more and more of a logistical impossibility, I've begun to turn my focus toward shorter and shorter fiction forms. After wandering around various news sites, I came across a book review on Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer,…
While I'm having fun just writing whatever I want that is even remotely related to my novel idea, I am not as productive as when I actually have a plan. Right now, I'm exploring the world I've created through writing, putting down the rules for how things work in the actual text, so for the…
So I'm two weeks into NaNoWriMo and realize I have not posted anything here yet. I'm so far off schedule that it's not even funny (I should have 21,000 words right now; I only have just over a 1,000), but I am having fun. I'll make sure to post the rest of the pep talks…
A reading by Mavis Hara and Ann Inoshita touched off a renshi-writing craze at St. Andrew’s Priory School.
A filmmaker looks at island culture through the lens of local language
Recently I gave a presentation at the annual symposium of the German Geographical Society’s Marine and Coastal research group. The topic was the Hawaiian Ahupua land- and coastal management concept and how it compares to modern integrated coastal zone management concepts. A few people were interested in more details and were quite amazed about the…
It was midnight on November 30th and I had only 31,746 words written down. I had failed. For some perspective, 31,746 words fit quite nicely on 100 pages. I’m not sure how many pages 50,000 words fill up; I’ll tell you when I get there. = ^_^ = I took the weekend off to decompress…
This pep talk ran counter to every single bit of advice I’ve ever been given about writing–thing is, it makes a lot of sense by appealing to the darker side of writers. But more of that later…. The Thanksgiving weekend was not at all productive, or rather I was not at all productive. Instead of…