"Bluntly, the novella is in its Golden Age as a form right now because no one is beating it with a stick until nickels fall out. So my plan for the novella is — drum roll: Do nothing." ...
This might just be my frustration speaking, but whats wrong with the novella? Publishers and agents seem to treat it as some sort of overly hand-sy uncle or a vile husband of the short story. D...
Sir Richard Burton by Rischgitz/Getty Images (via NYTimes) Inokashira Park Zoo, Tokyo by meikofilm by Ne-Na from Nasty Gal by Bertrand Benoit telling time from chronomaster P.S. If someo...
BIG question in a little package. Well... Im a tiny bit closer to getting something published and Im currently busy with related admin... Sorry for being so vague but Im a big believer of The Jinx. *...
Holland... (spent last weekend there!) Off-the-cuff maps that look like art . . . . . . . . vt wonen Jeltje Janmaat Louis Lemaire &n...
If youre around Oxford on the evening of May 4, COME SEE US at the Albion! We will be reading fiction and poetry, and trying not to get too sloshed on the wine after our turn. poster crea...
Ive long wanted to put up a wall with framed photos and prints and random bits of paper (like ticket stubs! I love ticket stubs...). And its typical that I leave it until the last m...
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Not recently (but Im thinking about it). At the moment, Im working on part two of my novel and coming out of it now and then to write random short stories... just to mix it up a bit:) x Ask me anythi...
– two different things. Random bits: Why Dont You Dance by Raymond Carver 晶晶 [images from: postalco, pia, totally morgan, stylecaster, source unknown, the chinese characters ...
anywhere with good light, really... armchairs work, too... or even a daybed correction... especially a day bed. [images from: fromscandinaviawithlove, as before, emmas design blogg, vt wonen, (lost l...
from theawl: why we are fascinated by lists (an article by Jillian Steinhauer) bits & pieces... glazomania: a passion for listmaking Lists help us manage the chaos of our live The Il...
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Its been weeks since I checked back but I have the usual excuses: 1/ the holidays 2/ work 3/ the requisite late 20s life changing revelation Number 3 happened several weeks ago and since then I...
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and its riches... from the Charles Dickens Museum to a walk in the countryside.(well... nature reserve, if you want to be very correct) (by jing/seventhings) follow my blog with bloglovin
whatever that means... Things I have done in London been to the Da Vinci exhibition,Somerset hall for the gallery and to see the ice rink being set up,markets around town,finished reading the v...
Yup! for short stories and poetry. got long-listed a couple of times but never won:[ Ask me anything (by jing/seventhings) follow my blog with bloglovin
For digital photos, I use the canon powershot s90. For film, my latest favourite is Superheadz Wide and Slim. I used to write on paper but it gave me painful bumps on the side of my finger. I now wri...
Its not quite difficult to imagine that Keong Saik Road in Chinatown used to be the red light district in the 60s, is it? Of course, its been cleaned up a lot and there are boutique hotels, bars...
I think I wrote my first poem when I was 13 (in class, bored out of my wits). It was about a student being bored in class and imagining that hes a knight on a horse. I gave it to my best friend and h...
Some of my cousins are quite supportive but my parents hate it. That used to bother me a lot but my need to impress/please them is slowly fading away. Keyword: slowly -haha- Ask me anything (by jing/...
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I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a simi...
1955 - 2011 (by jing/seventhings) follow my blog with bloglovin
The words snake out of my mouth before I can stop them. Braiding the ends of sentences, keeping them tied up with a velvet ribbon, or left loose to unfurl slowly in the hours after. Hear the differen...
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watch out for traffic.No, really. Every day was an adventure.Especially on the culinary front... The food, gosh, the FOOD. No pictures of what we had during our two days there butbelieve m...
There many things wonderful about being a writer (or trying to be one): I get to be my own boss. I work (and wake) on my own time – I have this dreadful habit of working from 10AM until 1PM and...
Personal Helicon for Michael Longley As a child, they could not keep me from wells And old pumps with buckets and windlasses. I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells Of waterweed, fungus a...
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