by Angela Tung on Sunday, March 17, 2013, no comments
Last week I was at AWP and had a blast. I actually had more fun than last year, which was overwhelming and lonely since I was there as an individual writer. This year I went to work the book fair for my company, which I really enjoyed. Tuesday, March 5 Set-up for the fair was [...]
by Angela Tung on Saturday, January 26, 2013, no comments
My latest writerly shenanigans! Language and words To Catch Some Thief Words, January 17 Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Words We Found There, January 24 A bit of exciting news: The Week, a news and culture magazine (they own the awesome Mental Floss), will now be featuring some of my Wordnik posts. Check [...]
by Angela Tung on Tuesday, January 15, 2013, no comments
[Photo: "Crackers," CC BY 2.0 by elhombredenegro] I’m going to write about something that happened a while ago but which I’ve kept quiet about. Someone plagiarized me. It wasn’t a 100% word for word plagiarism, but this person’s piece imitated mine in style and structure, line by line. The opening in fact was almost exactly [...]
by Angela Tung on Saturday, January 12, 2013, 2 comments
Search terms that consistently bring people to my blog are “I hate marketing job,” “I hate marketing careers,” and “why apply for marketing.” It’s because of this post I wrote back when I was applying for any kind of writing job. That post recently received a comment: Ah, the artist’s conundrum, working a job you [...]
by Angela Tung on Saturday, January 5, 2013, no comments
My latest writerly shenanigans! Language and words Election Day Soup: Words on Politics and Campaigning, November 6 Hobson-Jobson Soup: English Words From Indian Languages, November 13 Taxi Words: A Brief History, December 6 Celebrating ‘The Hobbit’: Journey Words, Unexpected or Not, December 14 Words for the Apocalypse Now (or Later), December 20 Best of Word [...]
by Angela Tung on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, no comments
I saw this article today about making only one New Year resolution. Poppycock! was my first response. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. Last year my plan was to adjust my expectations, celebrate my accomplishments, and have short-term goals in mind but to not write them. I don’t know [...]
by Angela Tung on Sunday, December 2, 2012, 2 comments
I totally screwed the pooch on NaNoWriMo. By the 26th, I had only about 32,000 words, even counting all my writing besides my novel (personal blog posts and posts for work). Even counting writing the same scenes again because my computer died when I was home in New Jersey. That was what discouraged me. Although [...]
by Angela Tung on Sunday, November 18, 2012, no comments
Updated. My latest writerly shenanigans! Work I had fun writing How to Talk Like Jane Austen for Talk Like Jane Austen Day, and people seemed to like it too. First, the always awesome @ElectricLit tweeted it. Then somehow it ended up in the November 1 headlines of The Morning News. Then curator goddess Maria Popova, [...]
by Angela Tung on Thursday, November 1, 2012, no comments
I’ve done NaNoWriMo (that’s National Novel Writing Month) several times. I’ve completed two bad novels, got partway through another, and spent one NaNoWriMo revising my memoir. Last year I started NaNoWriMo, then decided to do NaNoPlanMo instead, planning my novel, the same novel I’m still working on now, a year later. Little by little I’ve [...]
by Angela Tung on Wednesday, October 3, 2012, no comments
The latest in my writerly shenanigans. Cha: Asian Journal I first heard about Cha through a Twitter friend who had a lovely essay in an issue that had just come out. I read another beautiful and moving piece, and was hooked. My essay, Home Sick, is in the September issue. It’s about a terrible New [...]