They say that life imitates art. This might be true. But it's also true that art imitates life. After all, artists can do no better than to draw on their own life experience and to create works that interpret some form of the world—that is, some form of life—through their own unique (and many times…
A Very Personal Novel
It has been ages since I have written here, and the reason is that I felt that much of my creative energy was better spent working on my novel. However, I came to reacquaint myself with the reason thatIstarted this blog to begin with: to document my intellectual journey, to document the reasoning behind the…
The Flaw of A Writer's Heavy-handed Rhetoric
The more I read, the more I develop my own sense of writing aesthetic. And the more I read, the more I come to see that my own style is ascetic. You see, I have no patience for overt rhetoric and florid language because I deem such devices to be impure and the mark of…
On Some Fallacies of Some Amateur Fiction
As far as I know, J.D. Salinger, the great masterful author of my all-time favorite The Catcher In The Rye, didn't teach any writing courses. I'm not sure that he gave much advice on how to write either. But he does give us some of his views on writing in Catcher. That's something else that…
On The Writing Of My Novel: The Curious Condition of Urban Loneliness
In the past few summer months, I have been struggling with my novel. Largely due to my inability to focus—a curse bestowed upon me by the cruel mistress of insomnia—and partially due to my intellectual stagnation that came about from idling in my room doing nothing but mindlessly consuming intellectually vacuous movies and television shows…
