Saturday, October 29, 2011

The Value of Literary Devices

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Ok, there is something very important I really need to get off my chest. Today's Write-Camp featured Laremy Lee who gave a very passiona...

Some random thoughts from the Singapore Writer's Festival.

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This year has ended fairly productively on the writing front. a) I published 3 e-books, one is an RPG, one is a book on Finance and one fi...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Politicization of Steven Levitt's talk.

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I was very privileged to attend Steven Levitt's talk yesterday on unconventional thinking. This is the first time I took time out and pa...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Why most of the time, it does not pay to be a Generalist.

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Life is'nt fair. Many sales pitches can be thwarted by the most inconsequential detail. From what I have encountered so far, a heartla...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Write-Camp Presentation Idea #2 : Platform for continuous and never-ending failure

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Suppose in a fit of temporary insanity, you start a web magazine. You ignore the conventions that most information junkies already have a fa...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Write-Camp Presentation Idea #1 : Sustainable Artistry

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A lot of writers and artists struggle with the question of whether they should quit and go full time with pursuits that they are passionate ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Just signed up for Write Camp 2011.

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I just signed up to speak for Writecamp 2011. This is one of my major goals I set for myself this year, which is to speak in the Singapore W...
Sunday, October 09, 2011

Is being good in Chinese a financial liability ?

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Just the other day, my good friend and ex-colleague, told me he liked my article because of my observation that a large number of unemployed...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

TCS 8, is $4,000 not enough for a Singapore man ?

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I saw this article on the web and decided to share it with my Facebook. TCS 8 mocking Singaporeans Initially I was a little indignant. T...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Learnings from working with unemployed IT professionals.

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One of the things about my current job is that I can afford to take a short time off work to spend half a day helping unemployed IT professi...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

What will you be doing in your miserable 40s ?

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"At 15 I set my heart on learning; at 30 I firmly took my stand; at 40 I had no delusions; at 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; at 60 my...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

People who read "The Secret" hate me !

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A series of events triggered this blog posting. I'm slowly coming to realize that there is a class of readers who absolutely hate my wri...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Sustainable Artistic Pursuits with Astute Financial Management.

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Today I just to share my ideas on pursuing one's interest in the Arts. There are quite a lot of friends around me who want to be artis...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

What's next ? Some random thoughts.

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Here are some random thoughts on writing, passive income and financial independence. a) A financially independent employee/entrepreneur is...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Final Writing Lesson - Quick tour of the Singapore Literary landscape.

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Friday was the last writing lesson for me. Most of us in the class felt rather sad. By the time the course ended, class participants have ju...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Fiction Writing #7 : Opportunities, Scholarships and Competitions.

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This update is going to be really short. For folks like me, writing is an attempt to build a third source of passive income. It's slow, ...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Fiction writing lesson #6 : Genres

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The last lesson had almost no theory. We spent the greater part of the day going through the works of other writers and coming up with a cri...
Saturday, August 06, 2011

Fiction Writing Lesson #5 : Perspectives

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Writing class is now starting to become interesting. As the homework submissions become larger, we now spend more than half the time reading...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Fiction Writing Lesson #4 : Characters

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At this point of our classes, we will spend more time writing and discussing the merits of our works so there is less theory to share moving...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Fiction writing lesson #3 : Plot, Reversals, Recognition and Beats

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Yesterday we got into a detailed discussion on how to construct a plot. Stories can be plot-driven or character driven. A plot-driven stor...
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