Since I’m eschewing social media for a few months (maybe more!) to protect my peace and my emotional health, I decided to do my writing updates/accountability etchings in a new blog posts category. I do have offline accountability notes in physical journals etc but it’s nice to have these blog posts archived particularly since I … Continue reading From the Escritoire 11/08/2025
Suspension of disbelief, subjectivity and world-building have always been coiled together in a single kernel for me. It evokes for me the Kelantanese Mak Yong where the narrator/performer gets the audience to suspend disbelief by just placing one foot on the stage and saying, “Now I am stepping into Kayangan”. That was his world-building, his … Continue reading Lyceum Notes: Thoughts on World-building, Suspension of Disbelief and Subjectivity
Salam and Eid Mubarak to all! I thought that this would be a great time to bring down the pricing for Watermyth. I’m not changing the list price of USD9.99 for the ebook (I spent too many years slogging at it and it’s a pretty thick book!) but I am making a super-long promo period … Continue reading Updated Pricing For Watermyth
I’ve been on a rewatch/watch of Elementary (I only watched the first two seasons before this but now I’m watching everything) lately and contemplating on whether or not one could consider the show cozy. Sure, there are murders nearly every week but the show is relatively light on the gore and the high octane. The … Continue reading Cozy? Domestic? Romantasy? On Labels and the Gatekeeping of Subgenres
2011 was the second year of my attempting to turn different novellas into a single braided novel. I’d changed the title from The Mermaid Tower to Watermaidens in 2010 (sometime between then and the first time I sent the book out to an agent, it became Watermyth). Nowhere in the years since I had first … Continue reading The First and the Fifteenth Watermaidens Day