A.K. LEE

It's official: I will stop my daily journaling/creative writing experiment. Since 30 Dec 2021, I wrote a one-page response to prompts...

Here are the prompts for March:

This is the first chapter of Fragile Vessel, also available in my first issue of Story+Story newsletter. I will post subsequent chapters...

I've posted my journal responses for the first week of January and I have already found it to be very useful in getting my brain to kick...

What is in your mind when you are alone in the dark? Confession time: I am a horror weenie. I don't watch horror movies, I nearly always...

This is the first in a planned series where I examine the first few lines of a novel I enjoyed. ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a...

For the most part, I don't process auditory input very well. It's a matter of attention and retention: I can't listen to one single thing...

Fuel, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea. The seven essentials of a Chinese household - and salt is the first condiment listed....

(initially published in May) Congratulations! You have chosen to incorporate a Mother™ in your latest piece of fiction. This is indeed a...

#bookreview #grimreader #death #dying I have reviewed one essay from this collection, but it occurred to me a few days after I'd posted...

If you've been following my blog, you may have noticed in the few interviews that I've conducted that I always ask about my interviewees'...

"Who am I?" I ask the world. The wind rustles through leaves and grass. I am listening. Hazy afternoon. Common mynas curving through the...

I was recently asked by a fellow writer about my coping strategies when I have no motivation to write. It's not writer' block; it's...

I realized I needed to write as the writer I am, rather than trying to force myself to be the writer I was. - J.S. Kuiken This month I am...

"Writing isn’t just the pen and paper bit, or fingers on keyboard." I recently decided to poke around my circle of friends who are...

While I haven't been reading books, I have been reading poems and also attending writing critique groups. In 2019, I know I have to be...

I'm not a fan of horror stories, but I remember the first story that scared me. I don't remember the title, or the author, or even the...

My name is AK Lee and I am a fanfiction writer. (Hi AK!) There, I've said it. There's still a stigma surrounding fanfiction and fanart...

This is a guest post by a fellow writer, Lucien Welsh. His book reviews and work can be found here. Connect with Lucien on Twitter or...

Do you structure your entire story or do you let it grow? I've been pretty quiet this month because I jumped headfirst into NaNoWriMo...