Surf the Audio Wave

The other day, I was invited to tell a story on Clubhouse. Clubhouse is new trending social media, an auditory communication app. “Hosts” act as moderators of live conversations and people hop from room to room…like in a clubhouse. Thousands 
of different rooms from...
Respect Your Audience

Respect Your Audience

In the article, “How to Write With Style,” Kurt Vonnegut once wrote that we need to respect our readers when we write: Find a subject you care about: Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this...
8 Rules for Writing a Short Story

8 Rules for Writing a Short Story

This is not my first time to introduce the famous post-war American novelist Kurt Vonnegut’s tips because they’re always intriguing. In his book Bagombo Snuff Box, he listed these eight rules for writing a short story: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way...
Can you use simpler words, please?

Can you use simpler words, please?

Let me explain how a website works. A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Hosting providers allocate space on a web server for a website to store its files. DNS is the...
Story Ideas

Story Ideas

Where do you get your story ideas? When we listen to somebody’s story, sometimes a phrase in the story or emotion that you feel from it sparks our inspiration, doesn’t it? If you jot down your thoughts at those moments, you get more story ideas. Next time when you...
Listen to the Beats!

Listen to the Beats!

What are the beats, you ask? In music, the beat is the basic unit of time. It is often defined as the rhythm listeners would tap their toes to when listening to a piece of music. It’s the same logic in storytelling. Thebeat is the smallest unit of story. A collection...

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