In which I talk about re-discovering the Chinese language and culture
Shi Min Xie When I was a child, I hated learning Chinese. The words were always so hard to read and memorise, expressing myself was so difficult, and the stories were always about…
Shi Min Xie
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,…
How I knew I wanted to be a writer
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…
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…
The Entitlement of Published Writers
One of the things that I have noticed in my country is that many writers are trying to come up with ways to write for a living, permanently. That’s not…