Writing is Believing

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No room for doubt, I was born talkative.  Back when I was in elementary school, I spent my times complaining about anything. My mother bought me magazines which contained lots of short stories. I loved reading it. Yet, I always ended up with getting frustrated with the stories (e.g. the casts, the ending). I complained to my teacher, my mother, the seller of the magazine, anyone.... Until one day, my teacher challenged me to write my own story -a story that I could not complain about. I bit the bullet and did it. I realized that writing is difficult. But I pulled my way and kept doing it.

When I was in Junior High School, I started sending my first short story to one of youngster magazine. It was surprisingly published! It feels like I had butterflies in my stomach. I was jumping up and down, then yelled "I did it!"

I began to be a professional author afterwards. I joined several creative writing workshops. It took 3 years process, and finally I was seeing my writings had already spread out in magazines. I had won several writing competitions and became trainer in creative writing as well as journalistic workshops.

Here in this website, you can see my publications, tips, movie reviews, or books recommendation. In "articles" section, you can also update the information about the latest occurrence (general) in Indonesia. I welcome you to keep in touch with me through my email.

I am lucky for having such experience that triggered me to be a writer. But I know not every people is as lucky as I am. If it is the case, I would be here to help you. If I can do something for making people motivated to be a writer, I would be merrier than happy to do it.

Being a writer is not only a matter of money. Yet, to be a writer is also becoming someone who understands people better. I study psychology, but I can tell you, I learned more from being a writer. To be a writer means believing yourself that the ideal version of your world is on the tip of your pen. And that becomes your responsibility as a writer to make people believe in you. We can change the world with our own way. Does it sound terrific?

Some people might think that I have a big mouth. But believe me, my talent is bigger. So take a cup of tea before stepping into my world, loosen some nerves. Let the stories touch your humanity sides. Prepare some kleenex or you might prefer a room without people in case you will find yourself burst into tears... :)

 

Latest News 

November 13th, 2008

 

News

 

 

 

 

My novel titled "Guruku Culun Sekali" has been awarded as the Runner-Up of The Best Teen Novel Category, Adikarya IKAPI Awards 2008,          on November 12th 2008.

 

 

Click here to see the other winners

Click here to view the gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 29th, 2008

 

Books

 

 

My latest novel, ORB, will be released soon in December 2008.

 

Click here to read the synopses

Click here to know more about ORB phenomenon

Click here to sneak peak the beginning chapters of my novel.

 

 

 

 

 

Below are some comments from the writing experts:

 

"Sebuah novel yang menarik, kompleks, dan filmis. Novel seperti ini hanya mungkin ditulis oleh orang yang sangat banyak membaca dan mengamati." (Helvy Tiana Rosa, Dosen Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni UNJ)

 

"Well, membaca science-fiction bikinan Galang Lufityanto ini dijamin nggak bakalan berhenti di tengah jalan. Membaca novel 'misteri' ini mampu menggugah rasa penasaran demi penasaran pada ujung babnya. Semuanya seperti lorong yang menarik perhatian untuk disingkap satu persatu! Sampai akhirnya kita harus menemukan jawaban di ujungnya itu - apa dan siapa yang ada di sana?"
(Boim Lebon, penulis cerita anak & remaja, produser TV)

 



 

July 27th, 2008

 

Movie Review

 

 

 

 

 

 Title            The Dark Knight

 Director        Christopher Nolan

 Starring        Christian Bale

                   Heath Ledger

                   Aaron Eckhart

                   Maggie Gyllenhaal

                   Michael Caine

                   Morgan Freeman

 Released      July, 18th (US)

 Language     English

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review

I am not a fans of superhero movie, but I have so many credits for The Dark Knight movie. I knew that it will be better than Batman Returns, and yes I got it right. I think those two movies are really mature in such a way that never becomes a major concern of many superheroes movie. Maybe it is because most of superhero movies refer to children, but come on, adults need their ones too. Batman is not typical any superhero that can use their super power and over power their enemy. Batman is just ordinary guy who lands better than any other people from sky-scrapper building with the help of high-end technology. But without the help of the gadget itself, Bruce Wayne will be about the same as us.

It makes Batman a fragile superhero, and that is the selling point. In The Dark Knight movie, Batman faces his eternal villain : Joker -whom i think the strongest opponent of Batman. I watched the trailer of the movie before, and i kind of thought that The Dark Knight actually referred to Joker itself. But I was wrong. Watching the movie, my heart was trembling so hard knowing that there is possibility that Batman would end up losing to Joker. It is the first time of my history seeing superhero movies that make me doubt that the superhero will win over the villain.

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Latest News  March 22nd, 2008

 

Writing Tips

 

How to write an opening paragraph?

 

Many writers believe that writing an opening paragraph means setting up time and place when/where the story happens. It is not always necessarily correct. The contemporary stories nowadays tend to arise conflict or something that makes the story mysterious, instead of telling story background wrapped in beautiful words.

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