Book Review – The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Shi Min Xie 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…
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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…
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…
Dragonhearted wasn’t meant to be a children’s book…
but I’m glad it is. When I set out to write Dragonhearted, I didn’t think that it would be a children’s book. In fact, I didn’t think it would be…
10 Fun Facts About My Book, Dragonhearted
As some of you know, my book, Dragonhearted, will be published this year. I know lots of people are excited for me, and to get you interested in reading this…
My Editor & I Scrutinise Women’s Magazines
Yesterday, my editor and I went to a certain printing company to do a press check. When we were sitting in the room, we started reading and making fun of…
Power Rangers
One at work, my editor and I had this conversation. Me: My boyfriend says I should get an English name since no one can pronounce my Chinese name for shit.…
No Job? What Next?
Yesterday, my boss told me that I may not have a job by the end of July. The magazine I work for isn’t making money, we’re not generating online traffic…
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…