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Thirdly, I thought it was the word flow problem. And it is said that one should do “morning ranting” to help the word flow. I did try it for one … Continue reading My Self Sabotaging Mind (Flash Fiction Continued) →

I am satisfied and disappointed at the same time, satisfied with the passages of descriptions that are subdued and suggestive exactly to my liking, but disappointed with them due to … Continue reading Satisfaction & Disappointment →

I am listening to a book about writing and it talks about character archetypes, like lovers, outlaws, sages, heroes, anti-heroes etc. And the author claims that archetypes are very different … Continue reading Archetype vs. Prototype vs. Stereotype →

I went to the grocery store last weekend and picked up a book from a three layered table display with books all piled on each layer, deliberately disorganized. I don’t … Continue reading The Underlying Messages Are So Different →

Have you ever found that you are busy for an entire day, but in the end, around the midnight, you realize that you have achieved nothing. Busy for the sake … Continue reading Saturday’s Busy Void →

Another Sunday comes and goes, and I’ve done nothing except running to the stores, making a batch of soy milk, rising three cups of dough with a yeast packet, read … Continue reading When I Have Nothing To Write For Today →

English is a strange language in many aspects, like spelling, pronunciation, grammar, but here I am going to talk about what I feel when I read English poetry. Actually I … Continue reading Describe the Indescribable Feeling →

“…freedom…my cage is simply getting bigger” is a quote from the book “All the Words I Kept Inside” by P. J. Gudpa. In one of the poems, she talked about … Continue reading Freedom vs. Bigger Cage →

I am writing a long steppe story that happened in the 7th century in the area that was located between the Mongolian steppe, the Tibetan highland and the Taklamakan desert. … Continue reading A Steppe Romance →

I have always tried to steer away from reading a book of romance, which is usually too unrealistic for me. However recently I try to write a kind of Kung … Continue reading An Old Friend & A Continuous Romance →

It is said that only 8% of people can keep their new year’s resolutions. I definitely belong to the 92%, but my inability to do what I have determined to … Continue reading New Year’s Resolutions →

This is the 2nd half of the post. The 1st half is here. Yesterday, I started to leaf through the pages again. I had reread many books before, some more … Continue reading Favorite Book Of The Year (Continued) →

“Theory” by Dionne Brand is my favorite book and I just finished reading it. I feel sorry that it is not longer, it doesn’t have a real plot, it talks … Continue reading Favorite Book Of The Year →

I just turned on my Kindle Fire tablet, pressed the first downloaded book, flipped through the unread pages casually. And this poem jumped into my view: “…drunk so deep the … Continue reading A Quote In View →

Make It Three Instead Of One I was trying to change my habit from writing one post at a time to writing three posts at a time in the past … Continue reading Change The Habit →

Image by Freepik This is the 6th part of the story. The previous parts are here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Ted Hughes and his sister Olwyn Hughes imagined at … Continue reading Quote of The Day: Want Everything And Nothing (Part 6) →

Image by Freepik This is the 5th part of the story. The previous parts are here: 1, 2, 3, 4. If the after-life of Plath were a movie, Ted Hughes … Continue reading Quote of The Day: Want Everything And Nothing (Part 5) →

Image by Freepik This is the 4th part of the story. The previous parts are here: 1, 2, 3. When Assia Wevill and David Wevill became their neighbor, Assia and … Continue reading Quote of The Day: Want Everything And Nothing (Part 4) →

Image by Freepik This is the 3nd part of the story. The previous parts are here: 1 and 2. At Cambridge, Plath was astonished by the women in the university. … Continue reading Quote of The Day: Want Everything And Nothing (Part 3) →

Image by Freepik This is the 2nd part of the story. The 1st part is here. I finally finished the two books “The Red Comet” and “The Silent Woman”. And … Continue reading Quote of The Day: Want Everything And Nothing (Continued) →

Image by Freepik Quote Of The Day #80 “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” This quote can really summon … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Want Everything And Nothing →

Image by Rolf Dobberstein from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #78 “She was quarrelsome, dogmatic, and shrewd. Her speech was alarmingly forthright, or else bewilderingly circumlocutory. Her eyes were large … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Experiment In Love →

Image by lee seonghak from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #77 I don’t really have a quote from the book “Burning Questions” for the simple reason that it’s an audible … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Questions and Curiosities →

mage by Public Co from Pixabay Last weekend, I tried to binge read three books–actually I tried to listen since these are audible books–but only managing to finish two, with … Continue reading The Weekend Binge →

From My iPhone Quote Of The Day # 76 “Mia Farrow is a great actress and a wonderful mom, who sacrificed greatly for her kids. And yet so much of … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: The Changing World →

Image by Rahul Yadav from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #73 I cancelled my audible subscription last year. Of course I want to save some money each year, but I … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Eat A Peach →

Image by sharkolot from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #72 This year, my favorite authors will be Dionne Brand and Janet Malcolm. I will try to read these two authors … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Spring Smells Of Eagerness →

Image by photosforyou from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #71 This is the 2nd half of the post. The 1st half is here. I’ve had “The Complete Stories” by Bernard … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Walk Through A Wall (Continued) →

Quote Of The Day #70 Finally, I find a translated poem that I really like. If you are one of the millions and millions of non-native speakers, you will understand … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Sleeping On The Wing →

Image by Kati from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #69 I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Love And Romance →

Image by John Hain from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #68 “Narcissistic and toxic relationships tend to hijack our brains, leaving our bodies to do the heavy lifting. Over the … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Knowing Yourself →

Image by Enrique Meseguer from Pixabay After two months, I am thrilled to exhaustion. Now no matter how many bodies there are, how bloody the scene is, how thrilling the … Continue reading Numbed With Thrills →

Image by Andreas Hoja from Pixabay This is the 2nd half of the story. The 1st half is here. Basically in the 1st half, I talked about my conversation with … Continue reading I Wish I Didn’t Say That (Continued) →

Quote Of The Day #67 it was a waste to have a moon here,a moon is not cost efficient Inalienable nomads, global citizensunfettered limbswe are heartsick for the true world … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Moon Is Not Cost Efficient →

Image by hoahoa111 from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #66 I have become a bore, I have been asked to forfeit my independent young feminist card. I don’t care. I … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: The Perfect Performance →

Image by ADD from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #65 A perfect, paralyzing blissContented as despair I took my power in my handand went against the worldIt was not much … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Too Tender To Be told →

Image by Dean Lewis from Pixabay I haven’t read thrillers or detective stories for a long time. I think the last thriller I read was “Pirate Latitude” in 2009. That … Continue reading The Christmas Thrillers →

Image by Capucine from Pixabay I read Pooja’s review of “The Housemaid” by Freida Mcfadden and bought the book to read for myself. It’s an easy and fun read, which … Continue reading An Interesting Stretch Of Reality →

Image by Annette Meyer from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #64 Joe Castleman is flying from New York to Helsinki with his wife Joan to receive the Helsinki Award for … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Husband And Wife →

Image by Neil Dodhia from Pixabay Quote Of The Day # 63 It has become so necessary to maintain power structures to benefit a selected few that it has become … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Love And Dating →

from my cell phone This is the second half of the post and the first half is here. I read this book because I heard that this book is based … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Fiction & Reality (Continued) →

from my cell phone Quote Of The Day #62 Ira never graduated from high school and he worked in a factory after WWII. However he had a gift in talking … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Fiction & Reality →

Image by Kira from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #61 “Everything undeniably true struck me as transparently false as soon as I wrote it down, and the greater the effort … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: The Ghost Writes →

from my phone Quote Of The Day #60 “History never repeats itself; man always does” “People do some crazy things about money, but no one is crazy. People from different … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Saving Or Spending →

Image by Capucine from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #59 I think I must have missed half of the jokes or parody or satires in this book since there are … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Slang And Satire →

Quote Of The Day # 58 “…Recite a text and then the young monks have the job of memorizing them. Simply absorb the teaching while memorizing in the classic Indian … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Lively Debate →

Image by Tiểu Bảo Trương from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #57 Irena moved to Paris after Prague Spring. She and her husband struggled to raise their two daughters. About … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: The Feeling Of Belonging To Nowhere →

Image by Pavan Prasad from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #56 Josie grew up in a small town near Chicago. Her family was chaotic and her parents were not very … Continue reading Quote Of the Day: Josie’s Story →

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #55 Our parents were, with few exceptions, the first-generation offspring of poor turn-of-century immigrants from Galicia and Polish Russia, raised … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Diversity And Conflicts →

Image by Monika from Pixabay Two girls, Banford and March, about thirty years old, bought a little farm together. In those days (about one hundred years ago when the story … Continue reading The Foxy Plan →