In this, the final week of the year, Singapore-based Eunoia Review haspublished two of my short stories: Game Night and When the Typhoon Came. But what the stories themselves are based upon back further than 2017, back before I moved…
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The Best Plan
written for today’s ds106 Daily Create. If I were given a do-over for today, I have to say that I’d wake up earlier, start writing sooner and write and write and write. (But I’d probably sleep later and eat more chocolate.)…
Redrafting (for) Your Life
Julianna Baggott has written a post applying the idea of editing to life. She wonders if writers who dislike edits to their work also avoid change in their lives. For me, change has rarely been a series of edits. What…
Memories of Place: Fruit
When I bite through the bright orange skin of a persimmon, when I feel the faintly sticky trickle down my chin, I am back in Ashikaga. It isn’t just that the first time I tasted the warm, sweet fruit was…
It’s all about the language
My PhD idea came to me after a mugging on a beach in Cambodia. Read the rest at from Tweet to Thesis.