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…
You may want to avert your eyes and ears as I squee like a little schoolgirl. Squee! Ahem. I was in my teens and enrolled in a book club. One of the first books I can remember buying was Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry…
As promised I am posting Sara Gruen’s pep talk. I’m actually taking her advice and just jumping from one fun scene to the next and transitions can go hang. And my post count as of this writing is 13,417. (Yes, I wrote a little over 2,000 words since yesterday’s blog.) And this was just two…
We are at war with New Zealand. I thought you’d like to know since, unless you’re doing NaNoWriMo and are part of the Hawaiʻi contigent, you probably have not noticed. I’m still not sure who incited it. It’s looking bad as the ratio of writers is skewed 2:5 in New Zealand’s favor. Don’t even get…
It’s been one week since I started my novel attempt and I am stalled out at 6,217 words. I actually haven’t found the time to write since Monday; life gets in the way. For example, last night I had the choice to write my allotment of 1,667 words or help out a student that had…
It’s film festival time and Wayne Wang has two new films based on short stories by Yiyun Li from A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Two independently financed films in one year is quite amazing…story is that he came in under budget after the first one so he just kept on going. Bamboo Ridge has…
Ho, chicken skin…the last taping of Aloha Shorts featured music by Paul Hanna and Follow No Trends, mellow songwriter/singer social commentary…nice sound with the addition of a twelve string player and standup bass. CDs available at Borders I think online. Poetry by Kathy Phillips read by Julia Steele. Gary Tachiyama’s stuff was read by…
from my notes at the most recent Bamboo Ridge meeting: Keep March 11th, 2008 open. Just in case. I’m not sure why the term "Mango Season" came up (I was getting confused by member benefits debate), but it made me remember the TON of mangoes my family’s tree produced this past September and wondering if…
On November 1, all over the country and around the world, writers, both amateur and professional, will fingers to keyboards and begin writing their novels. On November 30, all writing will cease and the writers will submit their final tallies. Who among them will have reached the goal of 50,000 words? This is the basic…
On October 4, the Ka Leo ran a nearly full-page article on Mavis Hara’s An Offering of Rice. The article introduces Hara to the readers and, through copious quotes from the Sept. 27 release at the UHM Campus Center Ballroom, walks the readers through Hara’s stories and inspiration for those stories. You can see the…