Having too much time on my hands and a need to be fulfilled, I was wandering the streets of Manhattan when I decided that I would do something about my unfulfilled desires... [Originally drafted on 5 April 2012]
The Merits of Hollywood Film in Writing Literary Fiction
I find that most of the great works of literature that are touted by the intellectual elite are often long, arduous books written in language that is either difficult to understand, overly stylistic, orsomehowmaligned by too much literary meddling. I have a deeply-held belief that if a work is not easily accessible to the general…
A Writer's Pitfall: Art Imitating Life
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…
