Prologue of Ashes to Ashes is here. Story based on a dream. Well, dream refixed for logic. Anywho, part 1 is after the cut.
Tag: writing
A whole bunch of talks or competitions!
Woooh, a whole bunch of events! Well, usually these things tend to run in the second half of the year onwards. Click the more cut to read more. We have:
- Talk: ‘In the Footsteps of Raffles’
- Workshop: What’s Your Singapore Memory?
- Talk/ Book Launch: ‘A life of its Own’
- Competition: e-Mote Digital Storytelling
- Workshop: e-MOTE storytelling
- Competition: 2010 Adelaide Review Short Fiction
- Competition: Man Asia Literary Prize 2010
- Competition: The Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Competition: The 30th Arvon International Poetry Competition 2010
- Competition: Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2011
Uuuungh. I did wonder to split this post into two or something but whatever. I’ll put them under headlines so you can scroll and pick at it at your own pace or something. Or usually, I’d just copy just the title of the event and press ctrl+f it or apple+f depending on which computer I’m on.
Onwards we go!
Scholastic Asian Book Award!
Yes, my fellow fictioneers. Scholastic is giving out an Asian book award!
The main details can be found at their website here: http://scholasticbookaward.asia/
However, here are the short details!
Deadline: 31 December 2010
Entry submissions:
a. An official entry form, duly filled in.
b. Six copies of the manuscript (in case of a paper submission).
c. A recent photograph in soft copy on CD.
d. A short biography in not more than 100 words in soft copy on CD. In case of a translation,
the biography of both the author and the translator must be submitted.
Prizes
– Winner gets $10,000 and a plaque! The manuscript might also be considered for publication by Scholastic Asia!
– First and second runner ups get a plaque and advice by Scholastic Asia on editing it for publication!
Anyway, it says you can send the submission via email but that is slightly redundant or risky considering it might get “lost” in emails since you still have to send physical copies of your photo and bio on a CD. Plus, you still have to send in the entry form too anywho. The address is available on the website.
Make your own popular supernatural romance!
The lovely crew that I usually go adventures with have a tendency to gravitate towards bookstores. This is not a tragedy for I gravitate to such places of literature too. However, as we made our rounds through Kinokuniya, such hilarity occurred for in the young adult section had an influx of a certain type of book. Thus, I have made a so called “generator” of sorts below for youto make your own popular supernatural romance!
The instructions.
- Open up Word, notepad or whatever text editor you have, copy paste the below EXACTLY as it is. Do not press the more cut yet. Replace the words below and do not write in any numericals. Spell them out if you please.
- Once done, click the more cut and copy paste the text into your text editor. Do not read it, go back to the top and use ctrl+F or apple+F (if you’re on a mac) and replace the words. For example, copy the symbol @ without the bracket and use the replace all function with the noun you have written down.
- If you have done this correctly, bravo! The words should have been replaced in the correct positions.
1) Name of lead character
2) Age
3) Relative
4) Number
5) Noun
6) Noun
7) Adjective
8 ) Emotion (past tense)
9) Noun
@) Noun
#) Object
$) Colour
%) Adjective
^) Animal
&) Noise (past tense)
*) Adjective
+) Noun
-) Name of the other lead character.
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A brief whatever of literaryness…
I have some content that I wish to share BUT I am not writing it down yet cause aaah. It’s the last day of March. DEADLINES of some submissions so we’ll have them in April. I’ll do a quickpress post here.
What I wish to post on:
The “rules” of publishing in Singapore. (Guess what! It breaks the NORMAL rules you have in the US and stuff.)
Of some local book reviews.
Of where do these writers lurk around here.
AND MUCH MORE!
But only in April. SEE YOU THEN.
Author appearances for the month!
Is it me or are there more author appearances for this year or something? Anyway, here’s the info! A copy paste from the various sources I got.
- Andrea Levy
- Norma Sit
- Greg Mortenson
And also one book launch at the Earshot by R. Chandran and Amy J Cheng
Here we go!
Science Chronicles: Sci-Fi writing competition
Hullo, hullo indeed! Science Chronicles 2010 is a science fiction writing competition! Only thing is that it’s not for everyone but more for students. Nonetheless, if you’re 18 and under and currently in Singapore, check it out! Oh, currently it says nothing about poly students but we’ll see since I hit them up with a question on that. Deadline is 11 April 2010.
There’s 2 categories for students to be exact. They are:
Category A:
- Secondary 3 and 4 students
- IP schools year 3 and 4 students
- 15-16 years of age international students studying in Singapore
Category B:
- Junior College 1 and 2 students
- IP schools year 5 and 6 students
- 17-18 years of age international students studying in Singapore
Here’s the brief rules/outlines. For more details check their website here.
EDIT: Polytechnic students are qualified to enter this! They replied to me via email so just make sure which age category you’re in.
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In which I wanted some redbush tea!
Location: The Multipurpose Room of the National Library.
Equipment: A digital camera, 2 books from the library itself, 1 book by Alexander McCall Smith and a ukulele.
No, I wasn’t planning on performing a song for him nor that I was going to borrow books but hey, I was early for the session and found myself borrowing some fantasy books there. After all, it is the library. And oh, the ukulele was cause I had gone to the music store at Bras Basah, next door to it.
So as it so happens, I ended up with the ukulele and the 2 extra books besides my original intent in bringing only the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency book by him. The session was organized by the Penguin Books people and thus, they were quickly setting up things when it was just around 6pm when the actually session started at about 7pm.
Happiness at the End of the World!!
YEAH, YEAH! Finally! Our book is in stores! Or rather, I finally saw it in Kinokuniya Orchard with Mintea! It’s Happiness at the End of the World (HatEotW)! Amusingly, if you want to read our previous 2007 anthology, “So You Think You Can Write A Novel?”, it’s there too.
Don’t know what HatEotW is about? It’s a science fiction anthology of 8 short stories (by 8 writers) based around the theme of the end of the world!
Except that it has happy endings because we wanted something not depressing when you look at the local shelf here. (The writers in the book do write other things with semi-depressing endings if you like but just for this book, we wanted happiness!)
Even if we were given the same theme (yes, I’m one of the writers in the book!), all of the stories vary from each other and we noticed that amongst those who bought the book during the book launch last year, everyone had a different favourite story out of the lot.
As for So You Think You Can Write A Novel?, it’s not a self help book but more an anthology of 18 stories by 18 writers of different genres and said stories are from their own novels. BUT ENOUGH ON THAT, let’s focus on the latest book first!
Oh, here’s a book trailer if you haven’t seen it yet. It’s simple but to the point.
Young Writers Seminar and a submission!
Righto! The first is on All In! Young Writers Seminar co-organized by the National Book Development Council of Singapore, The Arts House and NUS Literary Society! The second is a submission for science-fiction/fantasy with an Eastern overtone!