How I knew I wanted to be a writer
Shi Min Xie I knew I wanted to become a writer at a very young age of six. I was in Primary One, and my school had one of those big picture books…
2016
Book Review – The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
It is Allan Karlsson’s 100th birthday and he doesn’t want to have a party at the Old Folks’ Home. Instead of going down to meet everyone, he climbs out of…
10 Fun Facts About Dragonhearted’s Supporting Character, Four Eyes
Four Eyes, by nature, is sad. It’s part of his DNA. That isn’t to say he can’t be happy–while Shu Ping is happy by default, Four Eyes is pessimistic by…
10 Fun Facts About Dragonhearted’s Supporting Character, Shu Ping
Shu Ping was given this name because I liked it. There is no depth to naming this character. I did, however, name her after a classmate in Junior College (JC)…
10 Fun Facts About Dragonhearted’s Main Character, Xin Long
There are so many things that inspired me to create this character that I don’t know where to begin, but I’ll do up a list of 10 things you need…
Don’t Starve is actually a pretty existential game
I may be late to the party, but recently, I got around to playing “Don’t Starve” but the indie developer Klei Entertainment. I love this game, and I’m so addicted…
In which I write about submitting Dragonhearted to an agent
Before I knew Dragonhearted was getting published by Scholastic Asia for sure, I started sending my books to local publishers and overseas agents. (I mean, just because I was shortlisted…
How I Create Characters
There are a few ways that I use to create characters. Some of them overlap, of course, and none of them are mutually exclusive. To each his or her own.…
5 Things That Inspire Me To Write
There are people asking me how Dragonhearted came about, and it’s because I am surrounded with inspiration. Nearly everything and anything inspires me to write, but here’s a list of…
How Matilda Shaped My Life
Like so many other children, I was a reader of Roald Dahl books. He was easily one of my favourite writers because everything in his books were so wild, imaginative,…