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On re-reading

July 8, 2015 By Ying Leave a Comment

Hello, friends. One morning last week, as I was still waking up, I had a moment of intense clarity about my work-in-progress: its shape is wrong. I need to restructure the first third of the novel. As I'm less than halfway through a first draft, I did not welcome this insight. Indeed, I spent a couple of days squinting at the corpus-thus-far-assembled, giving it a poke here and a jab there, as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Read Tagged With: Freddy Spencer Chapman, historical fiction, Malaya, Monsoon Season, Paul Scott, reading, research, Second World War, The History Girls, The Next Book, Things I Read, writing process

Hmm.

June 10, 2015 By Ying 2 Comments

Hello, friends. I'm halfway through a novel by Paul Scott called The Chinese Love Pavilion. I know, I know: SKETCHY TITLE ALERT! Don't worry: this is, and will remain, a PG-rated blog. Mostly, it's research for my novel-in-progress (which is set in Malaya during the Second World War). The Chinese Love Pavilion (another suggestion from my well-read friend Mary Alice Downie) takes place … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Read Tagged With: colonialism, feminism, historical fiction, imperialism, Malaya, misogyny, Paul Scott, post-colonial, racism, reading, research, Second World War, Things I Read

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