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The Cardigans – After All Aoi Teshima – Lullaby of Birdland Anggun – Fly My Eagle I wrote the majority of Maybe Everything when I was heartbroken. So quite naturally, the songs featured in this writing playlist are the songs I used to listen to during the moments when I couldn’t stop thinking about my…
The idea that a writer ought to write in a coffee shop of some kind has been quite prevalent in this modern society, don’t you think? Whenever we picture an author in our mind, for example, the very idea of them typing away in the nook of one dusty cafe might show up in our…
Recently, it feels so hard convincing myself to write something new. You know, be it a novel, a short story, or even a short poetry. There’s always this inexplicable part of my heart that just wouldn’t listen, no matter how hard I try to tell myself to write. Something is clearly holding me back, and…
Looking back, I had always been the storyteller of the family. I remember talking to my grandmother on a rainy day, or during one of those unfortunate days when there was a blackout and we couldn’t do anything but gather by a candle in the living room and chat until the electricity’s back on again—I…
It is no secret by now that my kind of writing sessions had always been long and torturing. Since I have to juggle with my day job and other side projects, I can only focus 100% on writing if I were to write non-stop. And that often translates into 5-7 hours of writing non-stop in…
If you are a writer, you might have heard of the term “writing rituals”. A writing rituals, as the name suggest, is a set of activities that writers perform before actually doing some writing sessions, in hopes that it will get them into this so-called “writing mode”. There are a lot of theories discussing…
Femme – Kajiura Yuki (梶浦 由記) Shizuka na Hibi (静かな日々) – S.E.N.S. Project Lost Memory – S.E.N.S. Project Itsuka Dokoka de (いつかどこかで) – Hama Takeshi (濱剛) Deja View – S.E.N.S. Project Since I completed the first draft of this project during Lebaran Holiday of 2017, I didn’t really need the music so much. But still, there were…
It is an extremely common case for writers to face this semi-mythical thing called ‘writer’s block’. Some believe that it exists while some think that it is a myth. For readers or people who do not write, it is probably difficult for you to imagine how it feels like to have writer’s block. to put…
There are a lot of parties involved in the writing process of my newest book, UNSPOKEN WORDS. The writing part—sure, it was pretty much solitary. But I owe the conception of this book to a lot of wonderful people, and I am here to convey my gratitude to each and every one of these individuals.…
Disclaimer: this post will feature a lot of pictures, just so you know. I have mentioned in one of my previous blog posts that I wanted to go on a creative writing retreat. Not the fancy residency kind, of course. What I’m talking about is but a short escape somewhere. It should be far enough…
Alicia Lidwina 