It was a Saturday and Jasmine didn’t know what to do with herself. The routine had always been to be doing things during the weekday, wheth...

Here's the mood board playlist for my WIP. It's kinda emo.

Thirsty, I'm thirsty for you In a dry land with no drink, I need you I know you made a home, inside this heart of stone So turn it int...

Writing comes in spurts. I find that if I write for long hours and get about 5k to 8k in the day, I can't really write much the next d...

This probably resonates with Mikal's mood: They say it only takes a little faith To move a mountain Well good thing A little fait...

It's technically three weeks since I've started, but somewhere in the middle of last week I decided that I needed to change my POV. ...

Right after formal classes ended last month, I went a little crazy and decided to buy tickets to as many shows as I could afford. Obviously,...

So. The plan is to go into a deep dive from May 6 - June 30 and write 10K per week to reach 80K (and the end of the novel) over 8 weeks. U...

All the Mahan palace servants were agog with the news. King Simson was going to marry Queen Layla. The bridge across the channel was goin...

I don't know if I'm going to keep this, but I like it well enough. It's sort a continuation from Rahsia . (With some stuff in be...

X is always a problem. Sigh. Anyway, xenial : "of, relating to, or constituting hospitality or relations between host and guest and esp...

Also, what on earth am I writing =.= --- The next day, Rahsia doesn’t get to resume her lessons, though. She’d had to head in to the sho...

Rahsia scrabbles at the last of her dreams. She’s built her life around a lie. Now that it has all been taken away, she has nothing. Everyth...

Sooooooo I've been dreadfully behind on my Camp NaNoWriMo goals, even though I've already reduced it drastically. But yesterday, I...

Rahsia pushes the problem aside when she reaches the Iman’s apartment building. Iman lives—lived—in a small one-room flat on the second floo...

Secretkeeper first started out with the thought: What do you do with the secrets you keep? I’d originally wanted to do an urban literary t...

Secrets are a burden. Rahsia had known that since she was seven and her teacher had stared when she said her name was Rahsia binti Abdulla...

I’ve been somewhat defining Absolution, and to some extent Secretkeeper, as YA fantasy. Yet whilst Absolution does fit the demographics (wit...

“Sayang, you have the talent of saying many things without telling us anything of importance. I gather that you took up the burden they offe...

In my Iman post, I introduced the character of Nek Ramalan. Nek is a short form for nenek , which is the Malay word for grandmother. She’...