Source: Me. (A view from Gujo City, Gifu) I’ve decided to start a little weekly (or maybe bi-weekly) blogging series about life in Japan, both from an academic point and from a living-there-as-a-foreigner point. I mean, why not? It’s my major area of study since puberty, damnit. So to get a jump on some ideas…
“Share A Saturday” is a weekly chance for you, yes YOU, to come on my blog and talk about whatever you want, so long as it’s related to writing/books. For more information, such as if you’d like to “share a Saturday” with me, please see below! Michael Abayomi was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He fell…
I couldn’t resist. Hey everyone! I’m here to announce a new feature over here at Musings of a Procrastinating Author: SHARE A SATURDAY,, or, a chance for you to feature yourself on my blog for a Saturday! Have a new book coming out? Have an older book with stagnating sales? Looking for an opportunity to…
As some of you may recall, I held a 20 page critique contest (raffle, really) in honor of 200 posts! Although only a few people entered (and thank you to all that entered! I didn’t expect anybody to, bwahaha.) that’s still a few enough to have us a raffle! So the tickets were counted, the…
Well, look at what time it is again! How about that! It’s time for another party post to celebrate this blog’s 200th entry! Hard to believe that the last one was just in September. In fact, it’s almost been exactly six months. Does that mean we’ll be having a party post every six months? Maybe!…
I’ve always wanted to be a singer-songwriter. But I assure you all I would come up with a better Best Of title than that. Anyway, partly for me, mostly for you, I’m compiling a list of my “best” blog posts here ever since I first started writing in 2008. (Well, I’ve been on Blogger since…
I seeeee Japaneeeeese~ I’m pleased as punch to make two quick announcements before getting into the rest of the meet of this entry: not only has my blog doubled its readership this week (from 40 to over 80 thus far), but I’ve also broken 50,000 views. Most of those views come from google image searches,…
ORAAAANGE. THEY’RE ORAAAAAANGE. Whilst surfing the great Nano divide of “omg why are you posting” and “omg why am I reading this” on the forums I stumbled upon a link that somebody posted called “One-Pass Manuscript Revision“. In it the author, Holly Lisle, shares her process of revising her entire first draft in one go….
In order for this to really work, it will require a lot of participation and a lot of linking. Of course, I think it would be really, really cool to see it happen. The idea is a question: Why do you write? I bet if everyone talked about why they’re a writer, why they write,…
What I see when I edit. If you follow me on Twitter you’ve probably noticed that every night (er, my time) I’ve been re-watching Sailor Moon Super and live-commentating every episode I feel like watching. Well, imagine my ~surprise~ when last night we got an episode where the victim was an author and the monster-of-the-day…