How Playing a Pirate Queen Helped Me Reclaim My Confidence as a Writer
Shi Min Xie The year was 2019. The pandemic was much more than the world could handle, and my editor had just screamed at me for writing a shitty sequel. I’d had an…
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Shu Ping Was Originally Supposed To Be A Malay Girl…
Before Shu Ping was Shu Ping, she was supposed to be Aisyah, this Malay girl. This was a conscious decision I made because I wanted to have a little more…
How do you find time to write?
While I was having lunch with a bookseller friend of mine, he asked me, “How do you find the time to write?” Writing is something that I do every day,…
Pet Peeve: Readers Who Are Against Killing Characters
I have seen lots of posts on the internet where readers are all making sad declarations that their favourite authors always kill their favourite characters. I get it. I do.…
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…
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…
I don’t like the question, “What inspires you?”
Sometimes, when I’m interviewed, I get this question. I actually get it a lot. I don’t blame the interviewer. As a writer who is relatively unknown, there isn’t that much…