I'm in this strange open-ended phase where I'm not quite sure where my freelance work is taking me. Things are busy, I generally enjoy the work that comes my way, but sometimes, I get the feeling that my brain has so many mental folders in them that I'm not sure which ones I should put at the top of my pile. I was just talking to a friend about this - she used to do freelance editing (along with tennis coaching, what a combination!) but quit that arrangement because she felt "too lost". She … [Read more...]
Monday
Love Through The Years
February 13th, 2012
I was assigned to write the cover story for Tatler's February 2012 issue - a Valentine's Day special interviewing five high-society couples about their marriages (interestingly enough, the photographer for this story was Joel, the same guy who shot for the other couples profile piece I did for Vanilla magazine all those years ago. Maybe we just exude lovey dovey vibes.) . It was anthropologically very interesting talking to these people who lead such glamourous lives, and all their love stories … [Read more...]
Friday
My Favourite Writing Class
February 3rd, 2012
There are times I get sick of writing, like when I squeeze out words that feel forced or cliche, or when I feel that my sentences go on and on incoherently like this one (or when I add side brackets to portray being sardonic). It is at times like these when I go back to memories of my favourite writing class at the Missouri School of Journalism where I spent a semester at as an exchange student. The class was called Intermediate Writing and it was there that I was introduced to the … [Read more...]