Goal: 2000-5000 word story
What I know about Siglap so far:
As mentioned in the introductory chapter, among the explanations for the name ‘Siglap’ is a local legend that attributed it to a Malay chieftain, Tok Lasam, who upon first landing in the area during a particularly dark thunderstorm, called it ‘Si-gelap’, which translated literally from Malay means ‘darkness that conceals’.
http://remembersingapore.wordpress.com/east-coast-road-low-rise-flats/
http://goodmorningyesterday.blogspot.sg/2009/12/world-war-two-at-upper-east-coast-road.html
Siglap and Sook Ching
http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=5iLHMh8b8MsC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=siglap+sook+ching&source=bl&ots=Yme7HQHAg2&sig=mwItlUXYQvZ1YbpfsX7w2Z7rqeY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yunSUo6bHceeiAflt4HYCQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=siglap%20sook%20ching&f=false
To include:
Siglap market and bridge
Wong clinic
playing in drains in Siglap
wooden bookshop over drain
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Writing: Reloaded
In the 7 weeks since the last deadline, I realise that writing without deadlines brought with it inertia and lethargy. I've been writing in spurts, blaming a lack of inspiration for the inability to force myself to sit at the laptop for 3 hours each day just to hammer out something -- anything. Grand plans to edit and submit all my previous work for last semester also came to naught, as Christmas, then the New Year came.
The first 10 days of 2014 however, has brought with it a strange sleep pattern. I've been waking up at 2 am, wide awake, only to fall asleep at 4 am. It took a week before I realised that my body might subconsciously be going back to writing mode -- last semester, I wrote from 2-5 am on weekday mornings.
So today, I'm up. I slept at 9.45 pm, and my body woke up at 12.50 am. Like how I finally started on my 2012 (or was it 11?) resolutions to do long swim sessions on Saturday mornings, today is the start of 2014 Writing: Reloaded.
To recap my Semester plans...
My creative work for the semester will consist of short stories on:
1. making the familiar unfamiliar
2. Singapore life
I also want to attempt to plan and plot a short novel (between 15000 to 17000 words) for two of the submissions.
Reading List:
1. ‘A Passion for Narrative’ by Jack Hodgins
2. ‘How Fiction Works’ by James Wood
3. ‘The Interpreter of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
4. ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’ by Kiran Desai
5. ‘The Company of Women’ by Khushwant Singh
6. ‘Freedom Writers Diary’ by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell
7. ‘Teacher’ by Sylvia Ashton Warner
8. ‘Wreaking’ by James Scudamore
9. ‘Island Voices: A Collection of Short Stories from Singapore’ Edited by Angelia Poon and Sim Wai Chew
My writing craft essays will be on:
1. Character in 2 stories from Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story collection ‘The Interpreter of Maladies’
2. The role of description in one section of ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’
3. Setting in 2 stories from ‘Island Voices’
4. Dialogue in one section of ‘The Company of Women’
The first 10 days of 2014 however, has brought with it a strange sleep pattern. I've been waking up at 2 am, wide awake, only to fall asleep at 4 am. It took a week before I realised that my body might subconsciously be going back to writing mode -- last semester, I wrote from 2-5 am on weekday mornings.
So today, I'm up. I slept at 9.45 pm, and my body woke up at 12.50 am. Like how I finally started on my 2012 (or was it 11?) resolutions to do long swim sessions on Saturday mornings, today is the start of 2014 Writing: Reloaded.
To recap my Semester plans...
My creative work for the semester will consist of short stories on:
1. making the familiar unfamiliar
2. Singapore life
I also want to attempt to plan and plot a short novel (between 15000 to 17000 words) for two of the submissions.
Reading List:
1. ‘A Passion for Narrative’ by Jack Hodgins
2. ‘How Fiction Works’ by James Wood
3. ‘The Interpreter of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
4. ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’ by Kiran Desai
5. ‘The Company of Women’ by Khushwant Singh
6. ‘Freedom Writers Diary’ by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell
7. ‘Teacher’ by Sylvia Ashton Warner
8. ‘Wreaking’ by James Scudamore
9. ‘Island Voices: A Collection of Short Stories from Singapore’ Edited by Angelia Poon and Sim Wai Chew
My writing craft essays will be on:
1. Character in 2 stories from Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story collection ‘The Interpreter of Maladies’
2. The role of description in one section of ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’
3. Setting in 2 stories from ‘Island Voices’
4. Dialogue in one section of ‘The Company of Women’
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