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Why I Write Ghost Stories in a City That (Seemingly) Doesn’t Believe in Ghosts

Shi Min Xie August 27, 2025 0Comments

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Notes from the Other Side of Publication

Shi Min Xie August 20, 2025 0Comments

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Perfection is Overrated

Shi Min Xie July 6, 2025 0Comments

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Behind-The-Scenes: Su Lynn and Cai Rong’s Relationship

Shi Min Xie May 15, 2025 0Comments

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The Book is Out! Finally! Plus Behind-The-Scenes Drafts

Shi Min Xie May 6, 2025 0Comments

Personal

What Writing Is

Writing is freedom. You may not realise it, but it is. Writing is casting magic spells and slaying the dragons. It is being your own hero and showing yourself that…

Shi Min Xie August 1, 2018
My Favourites Personal

Favourite Short Stories

Short stories are underrated. People don’t buy short story collections by writers and would rather buy novels. But I often get to see a writer’s skill in his/her short stories,…

Shi Min Xie July 25, 2018
Book Reviews

The Poppy War — A Review

The Poppy War is one of those books that I just couldn’t stop reading. Once I opened it, I couldn’t stop. Yet, when I finished reading, I wanted to read…

Shi Min Xie July 18, 2018
Book Reviews

32 Yolks — A Review

A former student of mine got me to read out of my comfort zone, and for once, I am glad I did so. I don’t normally dive into memoirs, but…

Shi Min Xie July 11, 2018
Unpublished Short Stories

The Witch and The Bird

All forests lead to this one. It doesn’t matter which country, state, or province you are in. The forest exists in a time out of time. In the middle of…

Shi Min Xie July 4, 2018
Book Reviews

The Bear and The Nightingale — A Review

When I was a child, I liked reading about Russian fairytales. Some of them were about Ivan (and in Russian fairytales, there was always an Ivan) and his firebird, and…

Shi Min Xie June 27, 2018
Anime Commentary

Why I like One Punch Man

My friend introduced One Punch Man to me fairly recently, and I was not disappointed. Of late, I have been disappointed with anime — I tried getting into One Piece…

Shi Min Xie June 20, 2018
Thoughts

People in real life who resemble characters in my book

It’s quite narcissistic to think that the people I meet resemble the characters in the creative projects I’m working on, but I can’t help it. Usually, I design characters but…

Shi Min Xie June 13, 2018
Personal Thoughts

Books I Decided to DNF (Do Not Finish)

There are books that I do not finish, but I don’t remember them. I only remember my favourite books, and those that are particularly wonderful. But I hate not finishing…

Shi Min Xie June 6, 2018
Rants

We are killing students’ creativity… and here’s what we can do about it

Note: The thoughts in this entry are my own. Before I graduated from university, I was teaching an incredibly smart Primary 5 (and later, Primary 6) kid. He was fascinated…

Shi Min Xie June 2, 2018

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Dragonhearted is an award-winning children's book available at most bookstores. Views expressed here are my own.

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  • The Book is Out! Finally! Plus Behind-The-Scenes Drafts

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