christopher ming lee

I find myself angry with my work more often than usual. I get angry with the direction I’ve led my life these last couple of months, which leads to anger towards the people around me.
When it gets to this point, I read the following below (sent over by Annie) which brings me back to an [...]

I didn’t get the Fulbright. Am I disappointed? Yes, but disappointment requires time, and thus, a luxury I can hardly afford. Thus, we move to Plan B.
Art suggested a possible Plan B: apply for graduate study at a Chinese university through a fast-track at Rutgers. I’d pay for my travel, but everything else is covered: [...]

I feel I have three more essays in me, and I’ll be done with the book - aside from their edits, of course. For these last three pieces, I’m brought back to the depressing realm of first drafts. I wrote earlier about trusting the process, and I’ve forgotten how hard that is when every sentence [...]

I’m dedicating this post to answering the questions posted previously, about whether or not I’ve fully considered the implications of self-publishing.
Self-publishing for money means running a business. Are you capable of running a business?
I think I mentioned it before, but I’m equally drawn to the business side as I am to actually writing. It’s why [...]

I’m constantly in turmoil over what I need to do to self-publish. Dozens of factors tug at you from multiple directions, and it’s tough to choose one way to move.
Do you have your product ready? If not, are you putting enough time into it?  Do you have a copy editor lined up? Did you pick [...]

Oh, the drama! The suspense! It’s like watching a soap opera unfold, minus the beautiful women with the evil step-sister who is really their dead mother’s reincarnate trying to solve the riddle to their grandfather’s buried treasure that he claims was an inheritance but is really Aztec gold! Instead, we have people… writing… [...]

The goal was to have a draft ready to be sent for copy editing by the end of this year. That’s what I will do, hernia from over consumption of coffee, dark-roast smelling piss be damned.
Here’s what I need to finish, more or less in order:

Four more essays to edit.
About six of the total essays [...]

This is a re-print of my cover story for Inside Beat, published in March 2008. Rutgers decided The Daily Targum didn’t need to post a digital archive so they took the a couple years of back issues off the server (morons.)
You decided you’re going to write a book. Fantastic.
Just stick to rule number [...]

I was working on a cover story for Inside Beat, and couldn’t come up with a topic my “readers” would be interested in. I always preferred writing columns over cover stories, because if I focused on bashing toolbags I saw on campus everyday and made everything up, it usually turned out fine. You can’t [...]

I wanted to revisit the goals I set before I left for Argentina to see what I followed through with, and what fell to the wayside these last couple months:
Followed through:

Handled the pain-in-the-ass that is getting your own health insurance.
Paid-off close to 50 percent of my loan.
Finished the Fulbright application in Argentina - with help [...]