Sunday, March 31, 2013

Oh my! The mess!

The intention of quoting "Fifty Shades" was completely unintentional.

I've been doing changes to my labels on the side, but I realised that perhaps most of my posts are not properly labelled. So it's time for me to start reorganising my blog labels. Also, it has been a to-do for me to create a page on this blog stating basic navigation and label guide for the newbies.

Maybe I should begin. Like, pronto.

So I apologise for any inconvenience during this time of reorganisation!

Friday, March 22, 2013

Un-motivated

Argh!

I have been 'enjoying' my term break (that lasts for a week) but instead of devoting myself to writing.. I've been drowning myself in work! Have been to school since Monday, working till I can't see the sun (okay, so I'm exaggerating here). Today I told myself that I should stop going to school and enjoy my holidays, but I have to bring my work home. And 3 hours since I woke up, I've not started on any work at all.

Maybe I should've gone back to school instead of bringing work home, but wouldn't that be such a pathetic thing to do, that I go back everyday in my holidays? :(

It doesn't help that I'm having such a BIG mental block in my writing. The chapter that I'm writing is crawling at such a snail's pace that I doubt I'll ever complete it at all.

You know, recently one of my friends (who didn't read my stories) peeked at my fanfiction profile and commented to me, "Isn't your story a little too long?"

That, I agree. 100,000 words is seriously no joke. Let us not forget the 60 something chapters in "I Want To Be A Turk!" I have, in all honesty, considered many alternatives to the ending of Days of Exile. Of course, I shan't be too hasty and declare that the ending is confirmed. I used to be really sure that this is what I want, but now, I'm not so confident.

I desire to venture into new grounds, because I'm getting too comfortable in my writing, and I'm also beginning to feel the strains of my multiple plot bunnies threatening loopholes whenever I think of something new in Days of Exile. I want to finish this story, I still do. But if I think that my quality's going to drop, I may take preventive measures.

I'm really rather burdened by this. No wonder many authors turned tail and fled from their budding stories. I don't want to end up like "Their Memories of Fukinara High" and run away before I could even finish it.

Well, perhaps I should get back to my reality and do my work first. :(

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Throne of Glass: One's dream that became reality.

Sometime last year, I was in my bookstore looking for Eona, when I saw this particular book, called the 'Throne of Glass' by Sarah J. Maas. Pretty intrigued, I picked it up and brought it home with Eona.

After finishing Eona, I finally looked at this book and thought that it would be a good company for dinner. Then I opened the book and then, I saw the author's thanks:

To all my readers from Fictionpress -

And guess what? I was so surprised, I couldn't begin reading the book.

I know that Fictionpress is probably less notorious than Fanfiction.net in terms of hoarding less-than-decent stories, but still...

Another writer emerges from the Internet!! Apparently Throne of Glass was initially a story on Fictionpress, and now it's fully published, with the sequel on its way.

Those who remembered my thoughts on writers who emerged from fanfiction will know how excited I am about seeing normal people like us get published. And it has slowly become a dream of mine to one day publish something too :)

So anyway, I'm currently halfway through reading Throne of Glass. This post is just a preliminary feeling towards the book. Hopefully after this I can give a detailed and fulfilling review to this book.

This is the book cover I got. Isn't it beautiful???


To those who are wondering: When are you going to publish Chapter 22?...

Soon. Don't be so impatient dearies ;)