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Wordsmiths Unite: Why Every Writer Should Be Active In The Writing Community - Thee Sim Ling
A common belief in society is that writing is a solitary profession; writers are meant to toil painfully at their desks in complete...
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Jul 7, 20214 min read
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Life Without Insulin - Murielle Müller
Insulin keeps me alive. It does keep us all alive, but I have to manually inject it because my insulin producing cells in the pancreas...
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Jun 30, 20215 min read
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Why an Editor Should Be Your Partner in Crime - Murielle Müller
There’s a number of How-To articles of dealing with these “dreaded” editors, and this might just come close to it. While I see why...
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Jun 23, 20213 min read
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Scribbling For Change: Activism and Writing Working Together - Thee Sim Ling
As more and more people are aware of social issues and injustice in society, there has been a rise of activism and advocacy, especially...
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Jun 16, 20213 min read
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Undefined - Submission by Srishti Pandey
**This blog post is a submission from one of our lovely readers! If you would like to submit a blog post to be featured here on our...
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Jun 9, 20213 min read
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What Studio Ghibli Teaches Us About Storytelling - Thee Sim Ling
Have you ever watched a film by Studio Ghibli? Chances are, you probably have seen at least one movie from Studio Ghibli’s impressive...
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Jun 2, 20213 min read
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Purposefully Lost in Translation - Murielle Müller
So, I write poetry and prose in English, which isn’t my mother tongue and people often ask me “Why the hell would you choose to write in...
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May 26, 20213 min read
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Intersectionality in an Identity-Rich World - Thee Sim Ling
What is intersectionality? It’s the “complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism,...
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May 19, 20213 min read
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The Female Body as Colonized Land - Prithiva Sharma
When my father sees me reading Nivedita Menon’s Seeing Like a Feminist (2012), he makes a remark full of sarcastic disapproval. Menon, in...
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May 12, 20216 min read
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Recovery is a Process - Prithiva Sharma
i. Therapy sessions were hard. I probably need therapy for my therapy sessions. For once, though, I felt okay enough to take the metro...
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May 5, 20217 min read
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Discriminatory Children’s Books: What Do We Do With Them? - Thee Sim Ling
Dr. Seuss, or Theodore Seuss Geisel, has been considered a reading icon all over the world for decades. However, it was recently...
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Apr 28, 20215 min read
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Fury: A Writing Fuel - Murielle Müller
Writing is an emotional thing. Duh. Writing connects writer and reader in many ways, as it creates a typological space for unheard and...
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Apr 21, 20213 min read
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How to Ensure Diversity in the Publishing Industry - Thee Sim Ling
Over the last decade, the writing industry has started embracing unique identities and “diversity” has now become the hottest trend among...
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Apr 14, 20215 min read
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The Impact of Flowers on an Individual - Sam Habashy
Flowers, a gift from the ground beneath, are not only a universal symbol of affection in a variety of forms, but get in touch with our...
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Apr 7, 20212 min read
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conversations with my bookshelf - Murielle Müller
I. we’ve spent a lot of time together, these days. surely, during lockdown one, two and three and a half our relationship has altered....
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Mar 31, 20212 min read
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Balancing On A String of Rope - Thee Sim Ling
February has been a month full of freakiness in Singapore, but one incident that stood out for parents and students alike was a fatal...
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Mar 24, 20214 min read
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Hurts So Good: Overcoming Rejection as a Writer - Murielle Müller
One thing that most aspiring writers don’t realise when they begin to write and submit to literary journals is that rejection is the...
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Mar 17, 20214 min read
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How I Survived NaNoWriMo 2020 (and What I Learned) - Thee Sim Ling
Every year, writers of all kinds, from the aspiring wannabe to the mega-popular bestseller, attempt the grueling challenge of the...
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Mar 10, 20214 min read
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Read Slowly - Rhea Bedi
For the past 3 months now, I have been suffering from reader’s block. Books were my safe haven after the lockdown. I found reading the...
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Mar 3, 20212 min read
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Understanding Relationship Dynamics in Social Hierarchy Through Chughtai’s Lihaaf - Mili Mukim
Ismat Chughtai, a raging communist way ahead of her time, penned down Lihaaf, originally in Urdu, in the year 1942, while she was in...
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Feb 24, 20214 min read
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