Orbit Pluto

Well, obviously I have no idea how to give a better title for my first post in 2021, and also my first post after I’ve last written any blog entry here. Entri ini bakal ngomongin opiniku tentang aturan nulis show don’t tell secara general—aturan yang bikin aku gamang dan galau tingkat nasional ( halah ) sepanjang akhir tahun 2020 kemarin. Aku juga bakal ngasih contoh dari beberapa novel yang aku suka dan ceritanya bagus, tanpa bermaksud menjatuhkan cerita-cerita lain because this is purely what I think . Sebelum ke bahasan utama, aku juga mau bilang gimana aku udah berproses sama hobi nulisku sepanjang dua tahun belakangan. Aku lebih banyak nulis fanfic di AO3, dan aku rasa tahun 2020 kemarin adalah puncak saat aku merasa paling wah dan betah. Aku mulai nyoba pindah fandom, dan with all the celestial powers , aku pengen banget pamer tulisanku di sini, but I just can’t. And simply won’t . :) Pokoknya, aku menikmati banget nulis di AO3. Aku bener-bener bisa mengembangkan rasa kagu...

Several days ago, I have just posted the last chapter of one of my stories on Wattpad,  Invalid , and it just dawns on me that, yea, I will write this topic and how making mistakes should not be my biggest fear in writing stories anymore. Just to illustrate the background of all this, I used to think so hard before posting my stories on Wattpad, since five years ago(?). That has become a habit since I read a lot of writing tips and how my stories shouldn’t be embarrassing, and how it should be—well, you know—perfect. I expect a lot from myself, and I do enjoy writing as best as I can. What differentiates my habit several years ago with now is that I did what I could, as best as I could. I cared about grammar, my characters, the research I should do, and I posted it. If there was a mistake, then I tried to fix it. I remember writing something wrong about human’s body temperature in  First Love First  until a reader reminded me about it; and how I wrote NaOH ins...

Eh, what could I say? Secara keseluruhan, baca buku ini tuh... melelahkan. And I just don’t know how or when to stop , wkwkwk. :) Banyak banget hal yang kurang cocok sama aku dari cerita JUM ini, despite I still give it three stars . Mulai dari judul yang kurang sesuai dan blurb yang agak-agak tricky dan nipu, plot dan gaya bahasa yang “kedodoran”, sampe porsi tiap tokoh yang timpang. Aku bakal bahas satu per satu serunut mungkin ya, tapi kalo di tengah-tengah agak ngomongin pengalaman dan kesan selama baca ya, please bear with me . Hehe. Pertama-tama, judul—dan kover. Dua orang gandengan, dengan tulisan Jingga untuk Matahari , bikin aku berekspektasi bahwa cerita ini bakal uwu-uwu gitu. Yha intinya banyak adegan pacarannya, trus ngelibatin cinta segitiga, cemburu-cemburuan, ngerebut cewek orang, gitu-gitu lah. Sesuai di blurb banget. Yha, uwu-nya ada sih di bab lima pas Seno pining ke A , tapi sebenernya blurb di belakang itu cuma dekorasi lho. Isinya ya, seba...

Hey-o~! I really want to do something like this and I come up with this wrap-up ideas because it was quite hard to focus on the positivity only without comparing other things; so here I go. >3< I’ll make several lists of some great and wonderful things that happened to me during 2018; and I wish that it’s beneficial to everyone who reads, everyone in general, or just me, at least. >w< 1. True Love Drama Yasss, people!! True Love squad/drama crews & actors/actresses and the process behind it has made me learned a lot of things. This was the first happiest moment in 2018 that I would cherish again and again; and though I’m aware that producing drama costs a lot of energy and time, I do enjoy it. I’m grateful for it. It turns out to be very beneficial for the present and future me. >w< I used to think that what would benefit me was the fact that I wrote the script, so what’s beneficial is only the writing part. Turns out that it’s not that simple...