Elizabeth Tai's Blog, page 27
September 4, 2015
September goals: Nourish the soul, body and spirit
This is the first time I’m joining the blog link up at Local Adventurer, so I’m pretty excited!
August recapI enter this month in a more positive mood. For one, no more studies, which means that my very tired brain is freed from trying to come up with intelligent ways to impress my examiners about social media strategy. Two: The horrible eczema that I had has finally receded to a point where I could tolerate clothing on my skin again. Better, I could sleep a full eight hours again. You have...
September 2, 2015
Graphic quote
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September 1, 2015
Tomorrow never came
You had an inner confidence that seeped into the way you moved, talked and presented yourself. Naturally, I was intimidated by you, mistaking your confidence and poise for haughtiness. But I was quickly proved wrong after we ended up at the same desk.
I realised that you were a kind and gentle woman; you had a way of making anyone feel calm when the world seemed to be falling apart. And I sure needed that during those crazy deadline days where it seemed as if my story would never turn out ri...
Tomorrow never came
You had an inner confidence that seeped into the way you moved, talked and presented yourself. Naturally, I was intimidated by you, mistaking your confidence and poise for haughtiness. But I was quickly proved wrong after we ended up at the same desk.
I realised that you were a kind and gentle woman; you had a way of making anyone feel calm when the world seemed to be falling apart. And I sure needed that during those crazy deadline days where it seemed as if my story would never turn out ri...
August 26, 2015
What I learned from my month of hell
In July, my life was hell.
In a way, it was a long time coming.
Three months before, I moved back to Malaysia after three years of living in Australia. The decision wasn’t easy to make. In fact,I had spent sleepless nights since July 2014 wrestling with the idea.
Adelaide was quiet, peaceful and gorgeous. But I was terribly homesick and felt that my dreams were struggling to be realised there. In the end, I took the leap. I wanted to return to steadier, more familiar grounds in order to see...
August 14, 2015
Interview with Amanda Hocking
Amanda Hocking has become quite a legend among budding writers – those who publish independently and traditionally. After uploading her Young Adult ebooks to Amazon and Smashwords, she ended up making up a million dollars in a few months. Unsurprisingly, big publishers took notice of her. (Ironically, these publishers rejected her novels over and over again years ago.)
She ended up signing up with St Martin’s Press, for a US$2mil (RM6.4mil) four-book deal.
I had the opportunity to speak to Am...
August 9, 2015
Want to be a writer? Stop dreaming and start writing!
Want to write a novel? Be a journalist? Be a freelance writer? Be a social media consultant? To do all this, you need to take a very important step: take that leap of faith.
Aubrey Andrus wrote a post I heart so much: The First Hurdle: Why Writers Should Stop Being Scared and Take the Leap of Faith. One particular paragraph really stood out for me:
Even the talented ones who are likely to be very successful as a freelancer prefer to dawdle and over-research what it takes to go out on their o...
August 8, 2015
What should I blog about? Help!
Should we inject some heart into our content strategy?
I’ll come clean and say it. My blog has an identity crisis. I’ve invested a lot of time and money into designing this website, and I’m really proud of it as it showcases my writing – nearly two decades’ worth. It has gotten me jobs, and I even became a guest star on an ABC radio show in Australia because of a post!
Still, most of the time, I wondered: what the heck should I blog about?
Jeff Goins’ post What you write about doesn’t matter...
August 2, 2015
The Chicken Chronicles by Alice Walker (review)
The 37 essays in The Chicken Chronicles is actually a collection of Walker’s blog posts. But this is not just a day-to-day chronicle of the life of a chicken owner. Instead, Walker reflects on the world via the lens of her relationship with chickens. She talks about Gandhi, writes a tribute to Michael Jackson, wonders about dealing with the rose-munching deer that occasionally invades her garden and ponders the loss of her innocence. And with names like Gertrude Stein, Rufus, Agnes of God and...
