Category: Blogroll
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Some horizontal portraits of Singapore, taken with my new Huawei smartphone called Honor. All images are unfiltered and unedited.
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Fiction is a game of two players. Transport your readers to another world. Forge an emotional link with them. Dramatise, dramatise, dramatise. Don’t just tell the facts. Give your readers room to imagine. Let them instantly visualise. Not intelligently understand. Use sensory information. Describe a feeling. Don’t mention it. Be specific, not vague. Use simile…
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A list of films, books and hotels visited in the year 2014; an average of one book and one film a month. My aim is to increase the number of books read for 2015. Movies I watched in 2014: 1. Frozen, GV Tampines Mall, Singapore (Jan) 2. I, Frankenstein, GSC Queensbay, Penang (Jan) 3. The…
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Last Friday I attended a writing session using “storycubes” as prompts. They are basically dices with a single artwork on them, with the intention of spurring your imagination to write a short piece. The workshop was organised by Alice Leong and Shiya Yang, the former who is the founder of rousingreads.com. A few things I…
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People photograph London and you see it through their stills, their black and white, their filter. It’s a snapshot of a moment, edited, photoshopped, framed, idolised, analysed, romanticised. But I’m in London and I sit at Tottenham Court Road Station and I watch the red and blue tubes go pass, one by one. I don’t…
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I never quite took to Pinterest until recently when I realised what I truly love – books, authors, writing, libraries and the sort. Pinterest is a good way to put the people you love together in an online scrapbook. I browse through my own boards (very hardly others’) to take inspiration for my writing. The…
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I haven’t just discovered the Book Depository but this is my first purchase with them. It’s free shipping worldwide, add to that books are also ridiculously expensive in Singapore. I’m totally looking forward to more of Patricia Highsmith outside of the Ripley series and also new-to-me Niall Griffith’s award-winning book ‘Stump’.
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The key to writing a good story is simple: 1. Show, don’t tell. Give details that will let the reader realise for themselves what is happening. 2. The story must progress. The story must have a progression and plot that moves it forward. It cannot be simply describing a scene. 3. Create concrete characters. Create…
Wan Phing Lim 