Book Review: Ready Player One
Shi Min Xie Meet Wade Watts, or Parzival, as he’s better known online. Like so many otakus, Parzival uses the OASIS game interface to escape poverty, his mean aunt, and a world ravaged…
2016
Getting A Job In Which You Write Could Be Detrimental To You
I remember writing a grumpy, angsty post about how most writing advice is bullshit, but this bit of advice applies to me, as I’ve always thought that getting a job…
Book Review: Serpentine by Cindy Pon
I really wanted to like this book. As someone who is Chinese, it’s already hard enough getting my hands on a Chinese-inspired fantasy, and to see someone who looks like…
If Dragonhearted Were A Movie…
It would be animated, for sure. Yes, yes, I know. The book is being printed as I write this, but the narcissist in me couldn’t help but think about what…
Shu Ping Was Originally Supposed To Be A Malay Girl…
Before Shu Ping was Shu Ping, she was supposed to be Aisyah, this Malay girl. This was a conscious decision I made because I wanted to have a little more…
How do you find time to write?
While I was having lunch with a bookseller friend of mine, he asked me, “How do you find the time to write?” Writing is something that I do every day,…
The first thing I ever wrote
was a composition about a cat. I was six years old and in Primary One. I had no idea what the story we had read was about — I think…
How Dragonhearted came to be called, well, Dragonhearted
For the longest time, my book had no name. In fact, I went through most of the first draft without knowing what it was going to be called. Xin Long…
Pet Peeve: No! Don’t Tell Me The Spoilers!
In recent years, the term “Spoiler Alert” can be found in nearly every single review or recap of any episode, and for a while, it drove me insane. I didn’t…
Don’t haphazardly like or share posts on social media, kthx
Facebook is an echo chamber. Whatever you like and share is tracked, and, in turn, the social media network shows you more stuff you may like. You may end up…