Y S Lee

Author of Young Adult, Historical and Mystery Novels

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Persistence

September 25, 2013 By Ying 2 Comments

Hello, friends. I've been thinking this week about life's important, meaningful, and really unglamorous lessons. Specifically, I've been thinking about that Thomas Edison quotation: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Or, as John Ruskin put it nearly fifty years earlier, "I know of no genius but the genius of hard work." This all came to mind because at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Do Tagged With: inspiration, Tim Wynne-Jones, WritersFest, Writing

Scenes from a suburban adolescence

October 10, 2012 By Ying 4 Comments

Hello, friends. Yesterday, I read Amusingly Horrible Things Moms Have Said at The Hairpin. It's fairly amusing; certainly not the best thing I've read on the internet, but it must have stirred something in my Brain Soup, because early this morning, I remembered two things I've not thought of in many, many years: 1. From age 14 to 18, every time I went to the corner store (only a couple of times … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Author, Writing Tagged With: inspiration, life stuff, Writing

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