Seven Month!

How I Write

Mainly on Google Doc (Some drastic improvements has been made somewhere and it's now running like a champ), occasionally on Writebox.

What I Worked on and Am Working On

I submitted 1 stories to The New Yorker today (just an hour early) since the last monthly update, a short fiction about 4500 words.

I'm currently leaving a first draft that is finished at over 10,000 words along, which's going to Tor.com.  I will set it dry for now before revising and editing for final submission, probably at the end of April or early May.

Currently drafting an idea for the monthly fiction submission to The New Yorker Magazine.

Currently drafting an idea for a flash fiction story.

About to begin the Camp NaNoWriMo. I'm going to write 50,000 words in thirty days again, I think I could make it in 20 days but who knows.

Why I Write

I write to live in the life I don't live, to speak in the voice I don't speak.

Where I Write

In my own room, or the dining table in front of the Acer C720 Chromebook.

And other imaginary spaces I conjured upon writing.

Who Motivated Me This Month

Selected Shorts

What Am I Reading

Read ten books in a month, though most of them were shorter than my usual reads. For more about what I've read, please visit my reading list.

1. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway [02/03/2014]                                 
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [04/03/2014]                                    
3. Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark [07/03/2014]            
4. A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne [13/03/2014]             
5. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne [17/03/2014]    
6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley [18/03/2014]                                       
7. Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology by Bruce Sterling[22/03/2014]   
8. Best of Alternative Journalism (Published by Association of Alternative Newsmedia)[28/03/2014]
9. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu[29/03/2014]                        
10. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll[30/03/2014]                                                

Currently reading Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, a follow up of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Planning to read more classical works in April but probably will not have sufficient time besides writing frantically.

Am I studying

Obviously YES.

I am currently enrolled into several MOOC(Massive Open Online Course) provided by edX and Coursera, though they are not yet started.

Freshly completed the course by UTAustinX Jazz Appreciation

I've also picked up a new language to master this year and is currently advancing my German on Duolingo!

Ich lese, Ich schreibe.

Continue

It has been a fruitful seventh month, I've written roughly 25,000 words.

~20,000 words short fictions, ~5,000 words blog and other writings.

The following month, April that is, will see posts mostly concerning the Camp NaNoWriMo because I have no time to dedicate but it.

So long. Peace off.