Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Index: Building A Writing Community

How do we build a writing community in Malaysia?
Insights from elsewhere
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Rogues Gallery of Fakers and Plagiarisers

Oprah Chops Frey Into A Million Little Pieces (Fries Him in Hot Oil) (28/1/06)
A Clutch of Bogus Memoirs (6/2/06)
Fabricated Memoirs - Even More Fakery (15/2/06)
Holy Plagiarised Madonnas! (1/3/06)
Severe Warning - Plagiarists Around! (17/3/06)
Kaavya and Carver: Cryptonesiacs? (30/4/06)
More Kaavya Fallout (8/5/06)
Dan Brown's Trial by Magazine (13/6/06)
Biographer's Betjemen Bombshell (4/9/06)
Jeffooied! (2/11/06)
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Index: On Publishing

General
Happy Birthday, Penguin (6/7/05)

Self-Publishing
Thumbs Up for Self-Publishing! (18/2/05)
Self-Publishing (31/3/05)
First Fictions (1/3/05)
The Underground Route to Self-Publishing (14/6/05)
Pretentious Prat Pronounces Prodigiously (26/8/05)
Gems in the Slush Pile (15/8/05)

Locally
MPH Writers' Circle (16/1/05)
Gary Gets it Together (3/10/05) (on print-on-demand publishing)
International Young Publisher of the Year (15/8/05)
Free-Falling Fiction (2/6/05)
The Power to Publish (21/12/05)

Malaysian and Singaporean Publishers
The Silverfish Bug (18/9/06)
The Birth of Neohikayat (13/4/06)
New Voices (24/3/06)
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Index: Reading Lists

This is a list of reading lists featured on the blog, and will give you some very useful reading suggestions. For later posts which have not yet been archived, please click here.
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Index: On Book Retailing

In General:
How Squidgy is Your Bookshop? (30/11/05)
More Love Among the Bookshelves (12/2/06)

Chain Bookstores:
Bookshop Snakes and Ladders (19/6/05)
A Quick Guide to Bookshop Chains (16/2/06)

Independent Bookstores:
Independent Bookshops (22/3/05)
Not Daunted by Squidginess (2/12/05)
A Bookshop that Thinks It's a Hotel, A Hotel that Thinks It's a Library (9/12/06)
Skoob is Books Drawkcab (17/1/06)
A Home for Bookworms (20/2/06)
Pay Less, Read More (25/2/06)
The Lure of the Independents (9/10/06)

Warehouse Sales:
(inder construction)

Unusual Ways of Selling Books
Books Among the Baked Beans (16/3/05)
Food for the Mind: By Vending Machine (23/8/05)
Teh Tarik Books (29/8/06)
Thinking Outside the Bookstore (4/11/06)
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Index: On Censorship

About Censorship in General:
About Censorship in the US:
 About Censorship in Malaysia:
* My posts on the Manuscripts Don't Burn blog

About Censorship in other South-East Asian Countries
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Saturday, September 02, 2006

Index: On the Craft of Writing

Just Do It!
Bag Lady in the City of Fiction (2/6/05)
When to Stop Making Excuses (10/10/05)
Reprise: Air and Light and Time and Space (26/10/05)
The Secret Author (3/9/06)
You're a Writer, Nathan (21/12/07)
Extracting Stories (9/9/07)

Why Write?
Orhan's Medicine (28/10/06)
Frantic Fanarcists (17/4/07) (About Neil Gaiman)
Hari's Secret (11/7/07)

The Creative Process and Finding Ideas
Kobayashi on Haiku (30/3/05)
Crazy Dumbsaints Unite (25/3/05)
Where Do Little Stories Come From, Mummy? (23/07/05)
Litt-craft: the Art of Writing Recklessly (13/3/05)
From Fragment to Novel (31/5/07) (About Michael Ondaatje)
Extracting Stories (9/9/07)
Authors - Protect Your Space (24/11/08)

Drawing on Real Life Relationships for your Writing
The Vampire and the Alimony Whore (16/5/06)
Fictionalising Family (19/5/06)
Why She Writes (5/3/07) (About Beryl Bainbridge)
Castro on Writing (24/4/07)
Yasmin has Something to Tell You (8/3/08)

Tools of the Trade (Pen, paper, typewriter, computer, writing desk etc.)
Whose Desk? (11/2/07)
Writing by Voice ... and by Mobile Phone (8/1/07)
Software Tools for Writers (10/6/07)
Another 50th Anniversary (30/8/07) (about Keroac's "scrolls")

Yes, But You've Got to Practice
Ian Banks' Advice (8/2/07)

Creating Characters
Bringing Characters to Life (31/5/07)
Characters in Just a Few Brushstrokes (28/1/08)
His Inestimable Self (9/2/08)

Naming Your Characters (and Yourself)
What's in a Name? The Curse of Scrofa (2/7/05)
A Character By One's Own Name (21/11/07)

Writing Dialogue
Perverted Commas? (17/1/07)

Voice
It Jist Comes Oot (11/8/07)

Writing About Memory/ Flashbacks
Enright and the Workings of Memory (4/12/07)

Theme
What's Your Theme? (22/11/07)

Researching
Home on the Range (13/12/04)

Getting Past the Critic
Closet 7/6/05
That Pesky Inner Critic (16/9/05)
In Praise of Truly Awful Writing (26/9/05)
On Writer's Block (30/1/06)
Twaddle is Good Too (10/3/06)
Writers Who Can't ... or Won't (3/5/06)
Writing the World (5/11/07)

Writing with a Partner
Writing in Tandem (20/9/07)

Style
Neurological Opiates and Agatha Christie (19/12/05)
Lexical Choices (15/12/2007)
His Inestimable Self (9/2/08) (Peter Carey's comments about punctuation.)

Audience
Who Do You Write For? (11/4/06)
The Ideal Reader (29/10/06)

Reading for Writers
You are What you Read (21/7/05)
A Writer's Reading List (13/7/06)

Health Tips for Writers
Writing that Marathon (6/11/05)

Writing Different Genres
Stories that Go Bump in the Night (4/9/07)

Getting Rejected/ Accepting Criticism
Rejected Not Dejected (13/7/05)
A Post on Kindness and Criticism Written in Horribly Clashing Metaphors (26/12/08)

Revising
Romesh Revising (24/3/06)

Proofreading
Nuke Them Darn Apostrophes (4/7/07) (About Cormac Mc Carthy)
Where are all the Blooper Catchers? (15/8/07)
Daphne's Rap on the Knuckles (2/9/07)

Submitting Manuscripts
From the Lips of an Editor (19/10/06)

Backing Up Your Writing
Ibsen in the Afternoon (24/7/06)

Writers Talking About How the Process Works for Them
Word Weavers (12/10/06)
Anita Desai's Advice to Writers (15/10/06)

Working with an Editor
When an Editor has to be Hands Off (23/9/07)

Doing the Nanowrimo
Nanowrimo (19/10/04)
Thoughts on Winning Nanowrimo (30/11/04)
NaNoTechnology (21/8/05)
Agent Smith Endorses Nanowrimo (6/10/05)
The Jesper Fanclub (29/10/05)
At the Starting Line Waiting for the Pistol (31/10/05)
Sit Vacant for Nanowrimo ML (25/8/06)
Go, Nanuts, Go! (31/10/06)

Blogging to Develop Writing Skills
Blogs Help Develop Writers (5/1/08)

Doing a Creative Writing Course
Ian Banks' Advice (8/2/07)

(Last updated 8/3/07)
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Index: On Creative Writing Courses

Can Creative Writing Be Taught?
Creativity Bootcamp (28/9/04)
So You Want to Write Like Ian McEwan? (26/4/05)
The Painful Truth (20/10/05)
Prose ... on Prose to Emulate (28/8/06)
Anita Desai's Advice to Writers (15/10/06)
It's Okay to be Ambitious (4/11/06)

My Creative Writing Courses
Creative Writing Course (28/1/05)
The Course of Course (4/3/05)
The Last Night (8/4/05)
After the Storm (27/4/05)
Creative Writing Course Investigated (20/5/05)
Authenticity (22/6/05)
Writing Buddies (18/8/05)
Writing Crap and Loving It (30/8/06)

Other Benefits of Creative Writing Courses
Creative Writing as Therapy (9/5/05)

(Index last updated 5/11/06)
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Index: On the Short Story

The Short Story

Writing Short Fiction

Short Story Collections

Short short stories /Microfiction

Malaysian Short Story Collections
(Index last updated 6/4/08)
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Saturday, July 15, 2006

Index: Building a Nation of Readers

The Problems


Reading Campaigns and Initiatives in Malaysia

Reading Campaigns Elsewhere

Getting Kids to Read
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Index: On the Local Writing Scene

  • Issues

  • Readings by Local Writers (at Darling Muse/ 67 Jalan Tempinis 1/ Maya Gallery/ La Bodega/ Silverfish)

  • MPH Writer's Circle:
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Friday, June 23, 2006

What This Space is For

This site is going to be a place for me to post the indexes I've compiled for posts on my main blog bibliobibuli. I may also use it to archive longer articles if I feel that they are in danger of disappearing from cyberspace, as well as useful reading lists.

It's my storage space, in other words.
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