Ain’t it great when author Bill Miyasato brings along his posse to the Aloha Shorts taping on Feb. 10, 2008
Musician Johnny Helm played at the Aloha Shorts taping on Feb. 10, 2008
Author/playwright Lee Cataluna and director Keith Kashiwada work on the BR production of "Folks You Meet in Longs."
The program for March 2nd,7 pm at Atherton Studio, Hawaii Public Radio Local actors will read the following selections: D. Mahealani Dudoit’s MY FATHER’S GARDEN Aria Soyama’s CONFESSIONS OF A PORN STORE CLERK A bunch of Wing Tek Lum’s short poems: “An Image of the Good Times” “Childhood Memories” “Kids Do Tings They Don’t Mean”…
A Few Words on Linked Poetry
Talk Story, The Writer’s Voice at Punahou, and Mavis Hara’s ‘An Offerring of Rice’
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…
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…