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’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...
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...
Read MoreOver-reaching
Well, I have finally finished a draft of the first piece that I’ve written for my new book. Oh, it was such a difficult piece to write. I feel embarrassed that it took me so long to write it, but I have also learned so much from writing it. I also reckon that what I was trying to do has a pretty high level of difficulty. It was one of those...
Read MoreIt’s my pity party and I’ll cry if I want to
Currently struggling with writing the ending of this story. Dolly Parton’s version of “I Will Always Love You” is my mournful...
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