write essays, articles and blog entries to get my ideas out in the world

Honestly, I don’t know much about this website yet. But sharing Ideas with people around the world could improve my skills especially in writing. This is a very good website that can help lots of people.

Not giving up; just backburnering for now – April 14th 2008

I am going to miss trying out for the Honickman.

I’ll have to regroup after I go to Illinois to look for work.

I write articles for a small town paper once a month, as well as blogs on My Space and an advice column on my website. I find 43 things to be a very good writing exersise as well- and a good source of reading material.

the same thing as “finish my website”. At least for me.

Katie,who hath completed this (for me) challenging goal, has an entry i just have to quote & post here, as it says it all about writing—and i can tell she’s a working writer, to write something so insightful & right on…

If you want to write, just write. If you want to write consistently, set aside a good time of the day to write for a small amount of time, say 10 minutes. Don’t put boundaries on yourself. Write anything and don’t self-edit. Weed through it later. Just keep the ideas flowing. I keep a small red journal with me for when sudden inspiration strikes—song lyrics, thoughts, journal entries, anything. It’s a mess, but it’s just for me! I keep separate journals for “finished” pieces of writing, like poems, etc….and then I have something pretty to look at. A finished product, if you will.

A blog is a great place to start for getting your ideas “out there”. Choose a good blogging community where you’re likely to get comments and feedback—that’s the best part of blogging, I find. Ask as many people as possible to critique your writing, and then start sending it out to whoever will publish. Think broadly.

i need to define this better, but as i do, i keep seeing various entries & goals that are a part of that same aspiration. So i decided to keep a list of those inspirations as i come accross them here:

• Write on a daily basis

• write everything down, & do not cross out anything

• write more. Stories. Articles. Anything. Write more.

• spend more time writing about the things I think about

• Stay faithful to the pen and ink.

• stick to a writing schedule

• make a journal of quotes and stories that inspire, and art and clippings that i love

• get to writing more, for my own brains pleasure

• create inner revolutions with my writing

• Look into possibilities of doing some freelance writing

• Write for ten minutes every morning

• get paid to travel the world and write about it

• write poems based on the lies I told as a kid

• write down childhood memories as they come to mind

• Find my written voice

• write a letter to my future self

• Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for my own joy

• “The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.”
  - David Hare

• Explore the why, how, what of my urge to write, then use these ideas to write short creative essays & stories

Well, it’s a small step, but the number of people I meet means increased readership for my blog – not that that’s why I do it. At this point, though, the blog is the natural venue for such discussions, especially since I’m not sure what topic I’d like to explore in greater depth for Boxes and Arrows.

I started to learn using computer at the age of 48, that was 5 years ago,and bcoz I started to use computer, I have to do something with it, that is the reason why I started to write essays.

At the beginning of this year, I have heard a lot of young people talking about BLOGGING, but I did not know what it is. I asked around and I was introduced to the MSN Spaces.

And guess what??? I have done up my own BLOG, without the help of my children. I’ve done it!!!

www.spaces.msn.com/members/yehe2005 .

In the past 5 years, I have written more than 200 articles and sent them to the local newpaper, they were all published and eventually, I compiled them into 3 books. I wrote in Chinese, my books are titled ‘A Fun Tour of Europe’, ‘The Fun Life of a Tourist Guide’ and ‘The Fun Life at Chaitiamma’.

One of my dreams is to cut a CD with folksongs from my motherland, Malaysia. I did it last year with a group of friends, we sang folksongs from Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore,
Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, Thailand and songs from Europe. We had a whale of a time! Its worth every moment of it!