I’ve been working on the same damn page all day. But I’m writing and the words are more or less working and I’m even clearing up a few problems that have been perplexing me for most of this year. So, for all of these reasons, I am so damn relieved.
Read MoreI haven’t posted to my website for a whi…
I haven’t posted to my website for a while. In fact, I’ve been lying pretty low lately. The reason is that I’ve been a little weary of Tom Cho the author – that is, Tom Cho the public persona who does things like speaking at writers’ festivals and posing for a camera. And that weariness of ‘Tom Cho the persona’ has...
Read MoreI was a teenage linguist
Years ago, when I was doing my Bachelor of Arts, I majored in linguistics as well as professional writing. You could say that I was literally a teenage linguist (as well as a teenage writer). After I graduated, I didn’t immediately pursue a career as an artist. In fact, I had big ambitions to become an academic in the discipline of linguistics and I...
Read MoreI’ve got a few things on.
Not only is it a very busy day at my day job today but, outside of that, I’ve also been trying to reconcile the existence of human suffering with the premise of a good God.
Read MoreOn The Meaning of Life and Other Fictions
Here’s a little update. I was going to talk about it here first but Twitter was closer to hand so I posted a couple of tweets earlier today: Tom Cho 曹勵善 on X (formerly Twitter): “Will be submitting my latest short story to 2 mags soon. Excited about this and also v happy to be back in the world of sending to lit mags / X” Will be...
Read MoreI, Robot Writer
I’ve been going through a “Let’s write about robots” phase. I really enjoy writing about robots. However, surely I’m not the only writer to fantasise about getting a robot to do my writing for me?
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