I have moved to Sivin Kit’s Adventures for my refreshed approach to blogging. What’s different this time is that I will experiment for a season, which I started with Here I Write, I Can Do No Other – Sivin Kit’s Adventures (substack.com) Sivin Kit’s Garden 2.0 will be using Medium while I maintain this blog,…
Category: Writing
Writing
Five Sentences
How much can I say in five sentences? It depends whether what I string together is well formulated, crisp, clear and meaningful. But the inner critic haunts me that English is not my first language; Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay, and even a bit of Norwegian floats in my head. It's inherently multicultural and multilingual with all…
Random Thoughts on Writing, ‘Apprenticeship’ and ‘Cabinet Making’
‘Writing’ as a way to bring those ‘disembodied’ ideas, thoughts, intuitions, concepts, images, etc., out into the open was a key theme running in my mind while listening to some practical advice by the ‘Masters’ of academia to the young PhD Padawans. I have scribbled ‘tons’ of notes since February, mind-mapped all over…
Why write?
Why do we write? Below are some answers in paraphrase or direct quotation, some with a mix of both: “. . . to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings. . . .” or to exercise control over them ~ Claude Levi-Strauss ‘Conscientization’ of the oppressed, or liberation from ‘enslavement’ ~ Paulo Freire Writing is…
On Writing Well
I never saw myself as a ‘writer’. I tend to see myself as a ‘communicator’ primarily comfortable to communicate verbally and visually. This probably explains my preference for speaking and mind mapping. But perhaps unconsciously and only later intentionally, I found myself a kind of ‘writer’+’communicator’ through being an accidental ‘blogger’. So, I still see…