MORE 'WRITING' POSTS
I’d start off with an intro paragraph here, but you’d probably just skip it. Let me just say that these rules only apply to me.
Looking back, it seems ridiculous that I, an avid book lover and organiser extraordinaire, did not realise that being a librarian was the perfect job for me.
The Loveboat, Taipei Trilogy’s Finale: Exploring Uncharted Places, a guest post by Abigail Hing Wen
|I found myself writing about characters, events, and experiences that I've never read in a novel or seen on a screen before.
I get excited whenever I see complicated intergenerational queer existence reflected in books for young people. I felt motivated to write my own.
They are characters with struggles. Characters with strong emotions. Characters who are different than us in some way. And none of those things should make a character—or person—unlikable.
By integrating what I’ve learned in The Search For Us, I hope I will give teen readers some tools to better cope with a family member who may be struggling with addiction.
You need to give yourself a break. You need to pass on the mantle. You need to stop seizing the day, and start soaking it up.
I hope you and young readers you know will pick up The Plot to Kill a Queen, and experience, in just a small way, the magic of theater.
What parts are Silver Bay reality and what parts are Copper Cove myth? Perhaps it doesn’t matter.
All happy groceries are alike: each unhappy grocery is unhappy in its own way.
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