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In a Muffled Hong Kong, Bookstores Offer Freedom of Thought

Some independent shops flout the new limits on free expression. Others try to come to terms with them. For readers, they offer a sense of connection in a changed city.

By Tiffany May

HONG KONG — When Hong Kong public libraries pulled books about dissent from circulation last month, Pong Yat Ming made an offer to his customers: They could read some of the same books, free, at his store.

Mr. Pong, 47, founded the shop, Book Punch, in 2020, after Beijing imposed a national security law in response to the antigovernment protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019. The law broadly defined acts of subversion and secession against China, making much political speech potentially illegal, and it threatened severe punishment, including life imprisonment, for offenders.

Mr. Pong said he had opened Book Punch precisely because he did not want the city to fall silent under the pressure, and because he felt it was important to build a more empathetic, tightknit community as the law cast its shadow over Hong Kong.

“The social movement has changed the way people read and the value they place on books,” he said. “I want to bring out that kind of energy, that desire for change through reading.” He added, “Books are powerful, like forceful punches responding to the social environment.”

The venture is a potential minefield.

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Personae

@the-wip-project Day 11

How do you create your characters? Do you make a profile of them? Do you know your character before you start writing the story?

I've tried several tools, from the basic bullet list of characteristics on the first loose paper I could lay my hand on, to an intricate mind map of the story cast with pictures, places, dates, etc.

Since a lot of the creative process goes through an insanely vast amount of daydreaming time, my characters are quite happy with budding and growing in my imagination. Their features existing already, only some details become more precise over time. But overall, I like to respect canon in that regard.

But it's the writing that really gives them the consistency I'd like their personalities to have. And this is when the magic happens because I'd be at a loss to say with precision what they're like before I actually start writing. As the letters, words and sentences flow on the blank document, their profiles take shape; the traits which are meant to be set, revealing de facto those that are going to follow the arc of development and evolve along with the plot.

@the-wip-project Days 12 & 13

Prompt:

Unfortunately, things never go according to plan around here.

Indeed they don't.... I NEVER INTENDED TO WRITE THE FIRST CHAPTER OF A NEW WIP IN THREE DAYS!!! I'M SHOUTING BECAUSE I'M SUPER EXCITED!!!

Look at your characters, maybe even the one you created yesterday, and be honest. Do you have a type?

I've been scratching my head about this question. I don't know if I have a type of character. I certainly have a recurrent type of plot though lol.

What I could say is that my main characters are meant to complete each other one way or another and to meet half-way on their individual paths. My stories revolve a lot around building bridges, facing trauma, sweeping unpleasant truths from under the rug, starting personal inner journeys. So my characters are flawed from the start, aware or not of their own missing pieces and weaknesses (but soon to be) and I guess this is the type of personae I enjoy staging and following along the relative unknown of the plot, the encounters it brings about, self-discovery and retrieving some balance after their life being more or less disrupted.

I realise it may sound super heavy 😅, but it's not necessarily the case. It matches fluff as angst equally.

Rating: Mature Relationships: Jeon Jungkook/Park Jimin

Characters: Park Jimin (BTS), Jeon Jungkook, Park Jimin's Parents (BTS), Park Jimin's Brother (BTS), Original Park Jimin Child(ren) (BTS), Kim Namjoon | RM, Kim Seokjin | Jin, Kim Taehyung | V, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Min Yoongi | Suga, Original Characters Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alpha Jeon Jungkook, Omega Park Jimin (BTS), Single Parent Park Jimin (BTS), but not really, Fertility Issues, Assisted Reproduction Technology, Strangers to Lovers, Strangers to Lovers to Parents, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst

Summary:

Having a pup hasn’t been just a dream for Park Jimin, but a resolute wish, bordering on obsession when fertility issues arise. The higher the expectations, the harder the fall as everything comes crashing down when his claiming-phobic boyfriend proves not to be trusted.

Count on Progress and Country to join forces and come to his aid. Because why date and mate an alpha when all Jimin needs is their seed after all?

And what are the chances Jimin meets the donor and progenitor of his adorable pup anyway?

Almost nil, they say.

Almost.

@the-wip-project Thank you for the initial push: here’s the new baby out, with last week’s moodboard!

@stankris​ Here it is! Newly out! Thank you for your support and help! 😘

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