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Want To Sell Words For Money? These Are Your Possible Paths.
If you told me ten years ago that I could trade words for money, I’d have asked you to keep your ‘you can do anything’ speech to yourself. Maybe it’s because I grew up without the internet, or maybe the industry was fraught with gatekeeping, but that’s probably why I’d stumbled from one bad career… — read more
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Just Some Writerly Things The Writer In You Will Understand
So you’ve chosen to be a writer. That means getting to know procrastination on a more intimate level. That means learning to doubt your work. Also, that means checking the word count after every couple of sentences. But there are many other things that bind us all. We writers don’t need to stick together. We… — read more
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The Lazy Person’s Guide To Becoming More Productive
I may talk a good game about being productive, but the truth of the matter is that nothing can be further from the… well… truth. After all, I’ve had decades of procrastination under my belt, and you don’t just undo a lifetime of bad habits with a few well-meaning routines. But I try. And you… — read more
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6 Hacky Hacks To Trick Yourself Into Writing More
This may come as a surprise to you, but you’re a very motivated writer. I know this because I’m super avoidant when it comes to writing, yet I’m still able to coax my mind into writing, especially when I have no idea where to start. And you know how the cliche goes—if I can do… — read more
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Why Doing Things Badly Helps You Achieve Your Life Goals
“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.” Thank you GK Chesterton for that. With that one sentence, you’ve taught me that taking action without perfection could very well be my gateway to a new habit, that million-dollar book deal, or my dream job (that I’ve yet to determine). You’ve also taught me that the doubts… — read more
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How To Craft The Best Morning Routine So You Can Crush Your New Year’s Resolutions
Here we go again. It’s that time of the year when hope is high and resolutions are abound. It’s the time when posts like ‘I’m On Track’ and ‘Achieving My Dreams’ litter the Reader, and I don’t blame anyone, because I too am feeling the promise of the New Year. But before we go on… — read more
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How My 15 Minutes Of Fame Didn’t Help My Writing (And Lessons Learned From ‘Being Famous’)
I remember back in 2019 when I was drafting my debut novel Tinhead City, KL, and I had this brief thought of how cool it would be to be featured on my local radio station (Business FM). I knew that the radio station had a ton of shows on literature and the local arts scene,… — read more
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10 Blogging Mistakes You Need To Avoid Doing On WordPress
Okay let’s take the mickey out of serious writing and explore some things I’ve personally declared as ‘blogging mistakes you need to avoid’, thanks to the 18 or so months I’ve spent on the WordPress Reader. Read enough blog posts and you start to see a pattern. Sometimes said patterns are pleasant, like the blogger… — read more
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How To Grow And Maintain Your Site With These 9 Blogging Tasks
Maintaining a blog means different things to different people, and ever since I started taking things seriously (circa May 2020), I’ve realised that there are a certain number of blogging tasks required to put forth a respectable front. Sure, when I launched the site in 2014, all I ever wanted was to share my inane… — read more
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8 Non-Writing Skills You Shouldn’t Forget As A Writer
Finally, a post about writing that doesn’t involve actual writing. It’s a relief, isn’t it? I mean, you can’t blame me for touting writing so often. It’s a given if you’re ever going to succeed as a writer. But the dangers of taking ‘just write’ too seriously could be getting literary tunnel vision, and tunnels… — read more
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