Intensity of Feelings
Original Source: http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/dtbb/feelings.htm Character Feelings You can describe your character’s feelings in more exact terms than just “happy” or “sad.” Check...
View ArticleMy first article on SALT – Singapore’s thought leadership platform for issues...
Read it here: http://www.salt.org.sg/big-brother-is-not-watching-you-everyone-else-is/
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Historian and and observer of Middle-East politics, Avi Shlaim, with reference to Israel’s “continuing colonisation” of the West Bank. From 2012.
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View ArticleErnest Hemingway’s Seven Tips on How to Write Fiction
Some of my friends are going to cry, “foul!” Yes, it’s true. I’m not a fan of lists. But when the list is derived from Ernest Hemingway, 1954 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of books...
View ArticleInfographic on Punctuation and How to Use Them
Here’s an useful chart that summarises, very simply, how to use 15 punctuation marks, ordered by difficulty. This was created by Curtis Newbold who runs a blog called The Visual Communication Guy....
View ArticleMr and Mrs Renganathan
Mr Renganathan was the personal security officer to Singapore’s first foreign minister, Mr S Rajaratnam. He’s retired now. I interviewed him for a book I worked on documenting S Rajaratnam’s life...
View Article25 Common Words That You’ve Got Wrong
ORIGINAL SOURCE: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/25-common-words-that-youve-got-wrong.html — 1. Irony What you think it means: Something that is funny. What it really means: Contrary to what...
View ArticleThe Parable of the Madman by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882
Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: “I seek God! I seek God!” — As many of those who did not believe in God...
View ArticleMy Article: Film and Southeast Asian Identity
Published by TODAY, Singapore’s second most-read newspaper, on 28th July 2016. Here is the online version.
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