Creativefishi Swimming with Words

Trading I consider is a creative process (until I get better at creative writing) and to believe the experts you can make some money from it.  So I tell myself buy the vegetables! i.e. Australian Shares, keep them for one year for tax advantages (you pay less tax if you traded them after one year instead of the 50% tax if it's less than that). So I imagine myself a trader. It happens to be shares, but it could've been anything from tomatoes, wheat to jewellery, cars, clothes or shoes. I never ever sold anything online other than shares. I just find it tedious to photograph products and wait for strangers to contact me. Never aspired to sold anything on eBay, Amazon or any online eCommerce and perhaps I never will be. Of course, I don't do garage sales! Its scary for me to have small business, so I never entertained the idea. I started warming to the idea of blogging and making a bit of pocket money, as a hobby and not as a major hustle. For it to be ...

Writing is measurable! And not only by word count or money earned.  It feels good to write, to feel alive. Creating words on paper or virtual paper, feels satisfying, perhaps freedom itself. The freedom to express and create. The simple freedom to write, to transfer your creativity, ideas and thoughts not only to the page but into others. They take what they may, and leave what they will. When we read other people books, especially the one that make us think, they transform us into new beginning and on the path of doing things differently. When writing, time slows down unless you are writing a university assignment! You are not pressured to condense your idea or speech to the minimal amount of words to a busy and uninterested listener. You are free to use as many words as you feel is necessary to write your creative piece. If this isn't freedom, I don't know what else is. The freedom to write, short or long pieces, is up to your stamina and creativi...

Know your audience is such a cliché writing advice . Perhaps its helpful when you are writing for a particular audience and you already know your crowd. For emerging writers, knowing what you are interested to write about is more important. Writing comes first, the audience comes next. At university, corporate writing and perhaps magazines' articles writing, knowing your audience is important, you write pretty to an established standards and interests. I differ on knowing my audience before the creative work is published. Not exactly knowing my audience before publishing on this blog is freeing to explore the writing and the ideas that comes out of this medium. Sometime the immediate audience or even audience in the same era are not interested in particular artist, or writer body of work. Caring too much about what's the audience currently wants might rob you of your best creativity. Be brave and write creatively, you might discover an eloquent, tweet, song , poem, non-fic...

I'm Back! I've been watching how social media have replaced for some people their day job. Some successful career people have quit their traditional job and have pursued social media to gain income. Many people in their YouTube Channels or blogs or both actually gained income and not only survived but thrived for example PointlessBlog - YouTube and Zoella - YouTube . Some people pursued social media on full time bases and others as a slash to their normal job. I think I'm the latter type. I like my day job, but I also like to follow up on creative adventures in writing and ideas. This year it'll be good if I write more on a regular bases! I wasn't active on social media other than the occasional tweets or Facebook posts. But boy oh boy you learn so much from watching or reading certain people on YouTube and blogs. You get high buzzed with ideas and motivated to do things differently. I usually like to watch people daily vlogs (although not on a daily bases...

Yes, I want to mark the day I re discovered my blog. It was lost and neglected. Happy to find an old friend, happy to find my old self and see my new hopeful new self to reignite my passion for creative writing. I finished university a while back. But I wasn't consistent to continue and grow in my journey of creative writing. Today is closer to another new year, and hence my next year goals. To start from humble beginnings and go back to structured creative writing course. This time through dedicated writers center instead of studying elective creative writing subject through university. The first module I enrolled through the writers center is delivered online and I can mill over it for a year. I'm the kind of person who needs structures, routines and milestones. It seems that just reading about how to write novels books is not enough for me. That didn't prompt me to take huge actions. I want to see progress through my creative writing journey. Also doing creative w...

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...