Sunday 26 August 2012

Sit Down and Write Write-a-thon: Wrap up

Wrap Up Post
Goal: 20,000 words
Written: 11,925 words 
Acks, I only wrote slightly more than half of my goal! Goodness me... However, I felt I accomplished a lot. As I've mentioned in my earlier post, the nature of my work has kept me busy and drained. The most I can write after work is about 300-500 words but this week alone, I manage to write 11,925 words! I'm currently 26,191/50,000 words into my manuscript and YESSS I've finally manage to pass the halfway mark (even though it is already the third week...). Looking forward to the next weekend to write 10k+ words!

To fellow writers who are participating in the Camp Nanowrimo, Happy Writing! You have about a week left! 

Tuesday 21 August 2012

Sit Down and Write Write-a-thon: Day 2


I managed to write only 340 words today as I was out for the whole day due to work. Acks. I have to make it up over the next few days. Which means to say that I'm still lagging behind by 17k words. 3400 words per day, here I come!

To fellow writers who are participating in the write-a-thon, Happy Writing! 

Monday 20 August 2012

Sit Down and Write Write-a-thon: Goals


The Write-a-thon has started! I'm actually lagging behind in my writing for August's Camp Nanowrimo. My goal for this write-a-thon is to write at least 20k words over the period of the 7 days write-a-thon. That makes it about 3k words per day. Let's see how many words I wrote today: 2896. Close enough. :D

To fellow writers who are participating in the write-a-thon, Happy Writing! 

Friday 10 August 2012

Sit Down and Write Write-a-Thon


I'm participating in the August Camp NaNoWriMo. That's the second time I'm joining the writing month (and I haven't finished writing for my June's camp...) So, I'm starting a new story but it's a fan fiction for now. I have not planned anything for this story and I'm going to just write whatever that comes into my mind. I tend to get disheartened by outlines for some reason. Turns out that progress is a little faster than writing with an outline! So I guess I'm heading in the right direction.

By the way, you don't have to be writing a story to join this write-a-thon! You can also write book reviews or even thesis! Just write anything!

Starting and end times are the usual:  Monday (8/20) 12:01am CST until Sunday (8/26) 11:59pm CST. 

Have fun writing!


Monday 25 June 2012

The Writer In You Blog Hop (6)

The Writer in You Blog Hop!
The Writer in You Blog Hop is hosted by The Fiction Diaries.
There'll be a question relating to "writing" each Saturday.
This week's question is:


Q: Have you ever had a character you intended to kill refuse to be killed?

My answer is: Not yet! I have not written any character that is meant to be killed in my story so they haven't reach the "refused to be killed" stage. Perhaps I'll have one in the future if I consider writing a darker story. Interesting thought! At the moment, I have my hands full of landing my characters in hospitals with injuries but no, I have no intention to kill them!

Hope you've had a great week ahead!

Sunday 17 June 2012

The Writer in You Blog Hop (5)

The Writer in You Blog Hop!
The Writer in You Blog Hop is hosted by The Fiction Diaries.
There'll be a question relating to "writing" each Saturday.
This week's question is:


Q: When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Did you share it with people or keep it to yourself?

I've been an avid reader since I was a toddler, starting with picture books then going on to children's books and then to novels. I never thought about writing until I was around 12 years old and was so heavily in love with the Japanese anime/manga Cardcaptor Sakura that I actually started writing fan fiction whenever I have any free time in class. It is really interesting to play with my favourite characters in my mind and put them in my stories. I published them on FanFiction.Net under then pen name sakuraakamichelle. None of my friends knew I wrote those stories and they were pretty surprised when I told them years later. Many still remain in the dark. I went into a writing slump when I was around 15 years old and I stopped writing altogether to focus on my studies. Getting good grades are very important here after all. However, the thought of being a writer never got stuck in my head until early this year when I started reading YA. That is when I know I want to write something--my own story with my own characters. Lovely. Instead of keeping it a total secret, I shared my being a writer to some of my close friends and my family. To my surprise, they are very supportive! But then, it isn't considered a "real job" so I still have to hunt for a "real" one. Some of my friends often ask me if I have had any interviews lately, which is kind of demoralizing. I definitely prefer writing! Can I consider writing as my permanent job, please?

Hope you've had a great weekend!

Sunday 10 June 2012

The Writer In You Blog Hop (4)

The Writer in You Blog Hop!
The Writer in You Blog Hop is hosted by The Fiction Diaries.
There'll be a question relating to "writing" each Saturday.
This week's question is:


Q: Do you outline your writing

It depends on what I'm writing. When writing fan fictions, I'm a panster. I never plan ahead for fan fictions and I'll just post chapters by chapters online after I've finished them. I imagine the scenes in my head like a movie beforehand and just write them out like that. For my current works, I'm actually learning how to outline the whole book and filling out the scenes. It's all pointers and nothing elaborate. I don't wish to take the fun out of writing by planning so in depth. It's tough to make the transition and I had to redo my outline a few times. It is time-consuming, at least for me. Sometimes, I was so tempted to switch back to being a panster again. So... Yeah, I do outline my writing but only to a certain extent.

Hope you've had a great weekend!

Friday 25 May 2012

The Writer in You Blog Hop (3)

The Writer in You Blog Hop!
The Writer in You Blog Hop is hosted by The Fiction Diaries.
There'll be a question relating to "writing" each Saturday.
This week's question is:


Q: When and where do you do most of your writing?

I do all my writing at my table, where by laptop is located. I'm usually lazy to unplug my laptop adapter so I'm always at my table. I find that I write more during the night as I'm not as distracted as I am during the day. That's when I get most of my things done as I stayed up pretty late into the night. However, I'm challenging myself to writing in the day so I'll get more word count up!

Wednesday 23 May 2012

8 Things to note when writing Thrillers by Sarah Alderson


I saw this useful advice on my favourite author's blog and thought to share it with all writers out here who is writing or plans to write a thriller. The advice Sarah gave is really helpful. I hope it will be of assistance to you as well.


Happy reading and writing!

Friday 18 May 2012

The Writer In You Blog Hop (2)

The Writer in You Blog Hop!
The Writer in You Blog Hop is hosted by The Fiction Diaries.
There'll be a question relating to "writing" each Saturday.
This week's question is:


Q: What is your favorite thing about your current WIP?

This is the first WIP I did an outline for. I did spend quite some time on it so it's my favorite thing right now. I used to be a panster while writing fan fictions, thinking chapter by chapter and never plan ahead. So, this is something different for me. I'm looking forward to completing my MS after my exams this coming Monday. The outline definitely helps. 

What about you?

Thursday 17 May 2012

The Writer In You Blog Hop (1)

The Writer in You Blog Hop!
The Writer in You Blog Hop is hosted by The Fiction Diaries.
There'll be a question relating to "writing" each Saturday.
This week's question is:


Q: Which author(s) has been your greatest inspiration?

I have many since I read a lot of books this year alone. My greatest inspiration comes from mainly a few authors: Sarah Alderson, Cassandra Clare, Julie Kagawa and even J.K Rowlings!

I had the fortune to come across Sarah's Hunting Lila and was immediately taken by her writing style that I even went to buy the book after borrowing it from the library. I even went on to buying her second book without any reservation. 

Cassandra spins a wonderful tale of Shadow Hunters. I love the way she describes things and portrays her characters' feelings. The tension between the relationship of the main characters is definitely read-worthy.

Julie Kagawa's Iron Fey series is AMAZING! It's complete with emotions, actions and beautiful descriptions. It feels like nothing else exists whenever I read the series.

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series has accompanied me throughout my growing up stages. Love her magical school.

How they inspired me? I love the worlds they have built within their books and they never cease to amaze me whenever I read them. Their books are the best that I've read so far and they greatly inspires me to try to build one of my own. 

Do you have any authors who inspire you? Share with us! :)

Friday 11 May 2012

Camp NaNoWriMo June 2012

Camp NaNoWriMo is a National Novel Writing Month program held in June and August. Yes, you will write a novel of more than 50,000 words in a month together with many other participants! Sounds interesting? If you are above the age of 13, feel free to jump in and sign up for an account and start writing away in June!


You can also find out more at the main National Novel Writing Month website: 

Interested? Join me!
Click here to view my Camp NaNoWriMo profile

See you in June!



Monday 23 April 2012

New Writer's Blog

I've just decided to set up a blog just for my works and it's up and running now! My progress would be pretty slow considering that I am taking exams in May and then I will be looking for a full-time job (even though it would be really GREAT to be a full-time writer but that's for much later if possible). 

Anyway, just a short introduction on my current project. I'm starting a Young Adult romance book and is centered around a girl with a really good looking brother, a same age (but not twins) cool sister, who hates her, and two doting parents. Things suddenly take a turn for the worst when her best friend's boyfriend started taking interest in her... What would happen to this girl?

I spent lots of time planning the book and doing the outlining and redoing everything again. I need to remind myself to keep my outlines simple so that I don't spend forever on it! I'm not sure when I will be able to finish my first draft but I'm looking forward to see the completed manuscript.