Making Ripples

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/SlAeqfCvKyI/AAAAAAAAG60/-E0omlruBZk/s1600-h/shih-li0001.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/SlAeqfCvKyI/AAAAAAAAG60/-E0omlruBZk/s400/shih-li0001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354813672179837730" border="0" //aspan style="font-style: italic;"/spanblockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"I approach writing much as I would approach the acquiring of any new skill. Learn the basics, check out what the pros do, practise, get some feedback, then go back through the cycle again. Learn more, read some more, write some more, and try to have some fun along the way./span/blockquoteFrank O'Connor shortlisted author Shih-Li Kow a href="http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/7/5/lifebookshelf/4027160amp;sec=lifebookshelf"talks to Daphne Lee in span style="font-style: italic;"Starmag/span/a about writing her collection span style="font-style: italic;"Ripples/span, and about how she writes and gets her ideas.br /br /And I review the book a href="http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/7/5/lifebookshelf/4052479amp;sec=lifebookshelf"here/a. The last line of the review has changed, and I intended it to read :span style="font-style: italic;"/spanblockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"The best pieces in the collection display Kow as an intelligent and subtle short story writer, with a firm grip on her craft. She is an excellent prose stylist, and there’s a musicality in her writing which makes it seems effortless. Ripples confirms her as one of the best writers in the form in the country, and one feels that the book can stand proudly beside its competitors on the Frank O’Connor Short Story Prize shortlist./span/blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-7511982891663869523?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div

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