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"Brevity doesn’t come from compression, but from selection."

Mantra ini disebut-sebut dalam buku 55 Tools Roy Peter Clark, dan diulang lagi dalam bukunya yang bertajuk Murder Your Darlings.

Penceritaan yang padat bukanlah tulisan yang telah dirumus, tetapi terhasil daripada pilihan apa yang perlu dicerita.

Dalam perbualan pun sama, tidak perlu cerita semua.

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks...

 Saya sedang menelaah buku THE NO RULES RULES.

Ini kisah bagaimana NETFLIX mengubah tradisi innovasi.

Ditulis bersama oleh CEOnya Reed Hastings dan profesor pengurusan Erin Meyer (yang juga penulis buku The Culture Map).

Ya, ini buku tentang pengurusan.

Dipendekkan cerita, pendekatan Netflix ini bukan untuk semua orang. Bukan senang-senang saja kita boleh tiru dan  terus indeks kegembiraan pekerja naik ke tangga nombor satu (Netflix tangga kedua daripada beribu yang lain, lebih hebat daripada Google...

Beginning of July 2021 I started sharing to Facebook friends how to draw with just using stick figures. They loved it! So from stick figures of men/women the how-tos evolved to cats, boats, houses and many other things.

From end of July I have gotten myself more than 30 things you can draw by just using simple lines. You can download them free by subscribing to my Mailing List (also free!)

 

Link below. 

Have fun! And let me know what you think!

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Some people are big fans of storybooks. You could tell how much they loved the stories by how much their eyes lighten up (or widen out) when you try to act out scenes from the books.When we read wonderfully-written stories, we became immersed in it - soaking its very details - time of the day, the scenes, the dialogues, what the characters were thinking, the smells, our own emotions, feelings – as if we're really there, in our own fantasy magical land.Yesterday morning, during our clown...

Creating Children Picture Books Workshop, Universiti Putra Malaysia. July  2015.
Photo courtesy Dr Noris Norowi. Have Fun Creating Your Own Picture Books Workshop, Bedok Library, Singapore - for the Asian Festival of Children's Content (www.afcc.com.sg). 31 May 2015. Photo courtesy of En Zamri Mohamad.
For the past one year, I’ve had the privilege of sharing/giving talks to primary school students, university students, parents, fellow writers and librarians.

Subject: How to create your own...

One of the earliest panda sketches, dated 24 December 2014
Latfy A LatifIf I remember correctly, we started working on the DR Bubbles & Panda book somewhere around mid November 2014.

Guess when did the book got published?
April 2015.
It was launched exactly a year after the first book was published (DR Bubbles & Anak Kucing, April 2014), during the Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair.
It takes a number of text developments and drawing revisions before a book gets published.
Characters cha...

Bukit Tabur, overlooking Klang Dam
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Early in the process, we have decided to add another layer to the story.
They are:Additional animals - this can make the reading activity more fun. One this page, parents can allow their child to explore other animals that live undergroundVintage  - The Volkwagon Beetle, Vespa scooter, Polaroid camera, and vintage postcards! All these give the book an evergreen theme
I tried to stay true to real Beetles and Vespas as much as possible, and for this I used SketchUp.
Fire up SketchUp, and down...

The story of DR Bubbles & Panda was inspired by real pandas. In June 2014, two pandas we loaned by the Chinese government to the Malaysian government in commemorating the two countries’ 40 years of diplomatic ties.

The story was written by DR Bubbles himself, sometimes in July 2014.
Character DesignDuring the earlier discussions of the title, I started sketching the panda characters. There are two of them - a male and a female named Xing Xing and Liang Liang accordingly. (Pandas cannot live...

Now that we have most of the characters sorted out (well, sort of), let's move on to the scenes.(The scene part should actually come after storyboarding - where we already know exactly what texts goes to which page and we can then intelligently illustrate the scene as to best fit the texts, story and flow. But sometimes I randomly pick up the scenes from the story just to practice on).
Here, I'm testing out one of the scenes where Mimi asked the little fish what's her name.
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