Comments Round-Up

I do read all the comments that are posted on Fusion View but instead of responding in the comments section, I have been writing a Comments Round-Up from time to time. This will give the notable comments and discussions more exposure and air-time on the main pages of Fusion View and allow more readers to enjoy them. There’s a new category called Comments Round-Up in the sidebar on the far right if you’d like to catch up on past comments. Enjoy!

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Commenting on my post on Hot-housing to retain creativity for writing, bibliobibuli notes that for some writers they can talk to much about their work whereas for others it seems to help them get it into shape for publication later. Kenny Mah draws an analogy with actors who do not want to over-rehearse so that they can keep their best acting for the actual take in the film - well, this is the first time I’ve been likened to Julianne Moore!

In response to my post about the content theft experienced by bestselling author Seth Godin, Tunku Halim agrees that it’s dangerous for writers to put their potentially saleable material on the web. Jennifer adds “how many people will actually take the time to sue?”. With my lawyers hat on, I would say that taking action in court is long, expensive and exhausting and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unless it’s likely you will get a huge amount of compensation…. Darren clarifies an error in my post, saying “The Creative Commons licenses offer the option of NC (Non-Commercial), which prohibits others from making commercial use of your work. Seth Godin did not use the NC option, and therefore opened himself up to having his work sold by others.” - thanks for clarifying.

A number of commenters have enjoyed my phoneblogging experiment from Malaysia, including Pey, bibliobibuli and Tunku Halim Rj suggested using the wifi and internet facilities at cybercafes and Starbucks - in the end, I didn’t have time to do any internetting but I saw many people hanging out at various cafes at the malls with their laptops, drinking cappuccinos and surfing - so civilized! The Angry Medic was reminded of how much he missed Malaysian food - ah yes, all we ex-pat Malaysians know that craving in our bellies and it was certainly fantastic to enjoy a week’s worth of the delicious, spicy cooking of home.

Jules Yim seems excited by the call for submissions from Italian magazine Buran and may submit a story. Let me know how you get on, Jules, and I’ll add a link to your story if it’s accepted by Buran.

Marc has added a comment to the film I showed awhile back about the Stanford prison experiment - he refers us to the films on Abu Graib prison which includes “background research on human ability to inflict injury to others when told to by an authority figure”. The film is “quite disturbing”, he adds. I will certainly take a look but may have to steel myself for it….

My cousin Pey comments that the women in my family are always so stylish re my post on Eldest Daughters. Yes, my Mum and Grandma have always been stylish. As a tomboy, I always felt so scruffy and slouchy beside them! My poor Mum still tries to buy me make-up and pretty jewellry only to be greeted by a lukewarm grunt…

And my favourite piece of news is from Kenny Mah. I met him at the KL Book Events and told him that I had read his mini-short stories on his blog - go to his pdf document Broken Mornings on his blog - and I thought that he wrote well. I suggested that he work them up into longer short stories and he was sure to have a chance of getting something published. Kenny has added a comment saying that since we spoke in KL, he has taken my advice and shown his writing to an editor - and he is now working them up into longer pieces with a view to publication: go for it, Kenny!

Photo of cattle round-up: thanks to aito.co.uk