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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…