LiL Article 7: The Lost Symbol’s Reception

lost symbol2Check out my new Live in Limbo article about the differing reactions to Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol. The article, titled “The Lost Symbol: Not Sign of a Lost Cause“, involved a lot of online research but ultimately ended up as an opinion piece.

If you’re interested in reading an extended version of others’ points of view, check out the various links included in the article or send me a quick comment for an even longer list of different sites.

I hope you enjoy! Feel free to share any of your own opinions regarding Dan Brown’s new book, either on this site or on LiveInLimbo.com. We’d love to hear your feedback.

LiL Article 4: Writer’s Retreats

Check out my latest article on Live in Limbo, “Writer’s Retreats: What They Are & Where To Find Them”. It’s just a tad text heavy, but I’m assuming anyone interested enough to read an article about Writer’s Retreats won’t mind reading a 500 word piece without any pictures.

I noticed that my LiL content is pretty broad, from bookstore layouts to book reviews to writer’s markets. I mainly pick topics that are most relevent to me at the moment. Since LiL is such an easy-going site, it’s easy to write at large. Still, I know I definitely have to improve on my review writing. As a result, these days I pay extra close attention to reviews in papers and online in the hopes of improvement. Keep an eye out for my future book reviews to watch my progress!

LiL and Website Work

Check out my latest Live in Limbo article titled “Books for Dads: Bookstore Chains’ Holiday Reads“. I’m a bit hesitant about this article because I was unable to spend much time with it. Its due date arose between family visits, relatives’ birthdays, graduating ceremonies, and fundraising events. As a result, I was unable to really get a feel of the article before submitting it. I know that if I really want to make a living as a writer, I’d have to quickly learn how to write timely articles on a deadline. Because of this, I’m even more glad that I’m part of LiL; it familiarizes me with this aspect of writing. I hope to gradually improve with practice.

On another note, I spent a good few hours transferring my website to a different host (WordPress instead of Blogger). I find WordPress enables me to create different Pages within one Blog site that users can easily navigate through. With Blogger, I had to create completely different blogs and link them together through an HTML sidebar to create the feel of different Blog sections. Please feel free to give me feedback on the website’s change. Suggestions are greatly welcome, as I’ve just recently received my domain name and am still at the very beginning stages of my website construction and career.

Find me on Live in Limbo

I’m pleased to announce that I will soon be starting a weekly “column” of sorts on LiveInLimbo.com – a new “synergetic effort of many multi-talented and multi-disciplinary young folks from various parts of Ontario”. The site has recently debuted online, through the efforts of my high school classmate and awesome web master, Sean Chin. My articles will be appearing online on a bi-weekly basis and will involve a mix of book and literary events reviews. Another exciting outcropping of this decision has been the possibility of upcoming author interviews for publication online. That means more opportunities of me talking one-on-one with published writers (my occupation of desire and choice)!