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7 February 2015

Wildly Witty Quotations from “The Catcher in the Rye” (1)

“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.” (p11) “I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age.” (p 12) “Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future, boy?” “Oh, I feel some concern for my… Continue reading

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14 November 2014

This Is Why Nobody Wants to Be a Wordsmith in Indonesia

Living as an author or novelist or short story writer or journalist is TOUGH, regardless of countries. Though people are inclined to see only the glory of renowned authors like JK Rowling, Danielle Steele, Elizabeth Gilbert or Dan Brown, many ignore the story behind their glamorous lives. One may find these authors’ past period as… Continue reading

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27 October 2014

Bersiap untuk NaNoWriMo

John Green, penulis The Fault in Our Stars, pernah mengatakan dalam video Vlog Brothers di YouTube bahwa menulis novel yang bagus dalam sebulan memang MUSYKIL. Kecuali Anda seorang jenius atau Anda orang kaya raya dan pemilik perusahaan penerbitan yang bisa seenaknya mencetak karya Anda yang paling kacangan dan picisan sekalipun untuk dipublikasikan, Anda pasti membutuhkan… Continue reading

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10 August 2014

Writing the Easiest Fiction is Much Harder than the Most Complex Non Fiction, Claims Ann Patchett

‎”Fiction is always really a labor. The hardest piece of non-fiction I ever wrote is NOT anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction.”- Ann Patchett As she talked about her non fiction work This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Patchett also touched on this issue, which has become my problem, too. ‎She… Continue reading

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28 July 2013

This is How Jonathan Franzen Writes #writing

“It is such a huge question. I mean I really literally could talk all day and barely scratch the surface… It’s always about TONE. If the tone is not there , then there’s no writing. And to get anything done, I need tone and a sense of outline. And the outline is much easier to… Continue reading

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10 April 2013

Write Freely, Edit Cruelly

“I find that discussing an idea before I’ve written it is often the best way to kill it stone-dead.” – J. K. Rowling Doesn’t it sound too obvious? I’ve known this since like… forever? Discussing about an idea with anybody else prior to writing it and push the wildest imagination to the point of exhaustion… Continue reading

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Wildly Witty Quotations from “The Catcher in the Rye” (1)

This Is Why Nobody Wants to Be a Wordsmith in Indonesia

Bersiap untuk NaNoWriMo

Writing the Easiest Fiction is Much Harder than the Most Complex Non Fiction, Claims Ann Patchett

This is How Jonathan Franzen Writes #writing

Write Freely, Edit Cruelly

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