Ketika Satin Merah sudah ada di tangan dalam bentuk buku cetak, esoknya saya langsung membacanya sampai tamat. Menyenangkan rasanya membaca karya sendiri.
Story Writing
Teknik penulisan cerita, baik fiksi maupun nonfiksi.
Memberi Nama Tokoh Fiksi
Shakespeare boleh bilang, “What is a name.” Namun, bagi segelintir orang, nama adalah sesuatu yang sakral. Orang tua tidak boleh asal-asalan memberi nama kepada si bayi. Nama anak harus punya arti yang bagus, karena nama sama dengan doa.
How to Appraise a Movie
Sometimes we make a different appraisal with others. You said A is a good movie, your friend said it boring one. It is very normal. Different individual, different taste, different point of view.
However, there is always a standard, if I can say it “standard”.
Take A Look Around for Writing Inspiration
Pretty often, we the writers are attacked by a so-called laziness virus. Doing research for the next story for a time bores us too. It’s stressful! How to make a story without feel it as a burden? If it’s your question (and was mine), here the dos list I suggest:
- Go out. Take adventure beyond the routines. Like Jean-Mari Gustave Le Clézio, the 2008’s Nobel Prizewinner in the field of literature, did. It will give you things to write.
- Listen to other’s story. You will amaze how your ordinary friends have quite interesting experience. At least, it can be a trigger for your work.
- You love the songs? Ok. Listen to the lyrics, not merely the music. Sometime it’s inspiring enough as a starting point.
- Or, just take a look around you. Believe it or not, every object near you has a meaning. You just need to be more critical and imaginative about objects that used to be insignificant to you.