Creativefishi Swimming with Words

I rarely read young adult fiction books but Steph Bowe changed my mind, her wisdom and knowledge is beyond her young life. She wrote Girl Saves Boy when she was in her high school. When I started reading her novel after I read the publisher blurb at the back of the book, I told myself how can she (the writer) solve or bring the reader to satisfying end when the tragedies are laid out at the book blurb and at the beginning of the book? But she did, and she did it well, it is not perfect but she managed to capture the fragile human spirit, that I thought you can only write about it if you have unhappy childhood and rugged life experience. The last two pages of her book are breathtaking and hers are one of my favorite ending of books I read previously, it captures teenagers’ spirit and sense of humour. Only read it when you got the plot from beginning to end to get its full effect. The basic plot of the book is: A teenager boy called Sacha, his Leukemia came back and hi

I admit in my previous life I was and maybe still I am to less degree, self improvement, self help, psychology books reader junkie. I read/listen to the good the bad and the ugly from: the flow, codependet no more, the 7 habits of successful people, Freud, Deepak Chopra, Anthony Robbins, Christopher Howard, the 80/20 principle, positive thinking, cognitive therapy, learned optimism, the secret and its variations, the art of war, how to win friends and influence people, feel the fear and do it anyway and many other countless books. What really strikes me first with psychology books and self help books is that you feel the guilt, that it is your fault you are not good enough or work hard enough or smart enough to achieve, you can’t recognise an opportunity and run with it or network the right way with the right people to advance your career. 　 Well let me tell you, I have also happened to be interested in reading about sociology the individual living in and within the larger society and

The difference is - from my own observations without googleing for the answer or checking a reputable journal that deals with this kind of topic- my answer is: A TV Soap never ends, it goes on and on like Neighbours and the Bold and the Beautiful on most days of the year for years.  I'm on and off watcher of the two soaps because the plot never ends and you can easily pick up the plot and catch up on the scriptwriters new endeavour. The time of the TV Soap is not aired at prime time, instead they are aired during the day up until 7:30pm. Also the TV Soap is 1/2 hour format with daily time slot. On the other hand TV dramas like Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Packed to the Rafters and Offspring are one hour format with prime time air time. And usually they run for one season with less than twenty episodes to go until their next return in another season or in another year. So they give us the viewer a bit of a break. Not because they are bad TV dramas but because as

So what I've been doing since my last blog in April 2011? Reading novels, watching TV, working on that work promotion that I still did not get, studying, facebooking, tweeting and keeping indoors from the cold and rain. But the dream is still alive, I like the art of writing and the expresion of it all. My next piece to publish on this blog is to write a feature or opinion piece about three Australian TV dramas from three different Australian TV stations and comparing and contrasting them. I actually asked on twitter if someone can send me the link to their article if they write about this three Australian drama, which I won't mention the TV series' names here, however, nobody replied. They might have written this article, or not. If someone did, it could be from their own prespective. Creativefishi Swimming with Words is about swimming freely in an ocean of writerly possibilities.