Memorising ‘good phrases’ isn’t really the way to teach kids how to write
Shi Min Xie I get slightly exasperated when students’ parents ask me if there is a list of phrases that their child can memorise to get ready for their composition examinations. I don’t…
Publishing
How I Got A Book Deal
I submitted a manuscript to a competition. The End. LOL JK. That isn’t all I did, but writing it down in one sentence like that showed how it all boiled…
What we don’t talk about when we talk about writing
Writers become writers because they have a dream–they want their stories to be read. But before I was trying to get published as an author, I thought all of these…