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So Grateful – This Reviewer Really Got It!

As the Heart Bones Break: So grateful this reviewer got it!

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Immensely grateful to be a daughter of Singapore

Audrey Chin

Apr 12, 20141 min read

Immensely grateful to be a daughter of Singapore

It may be unfashionable but I’m shouting it out anyway – It’s good being a daughter of Singapore. It’s something to be immensely...

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Audrey Chin

Feb 23, 20141 min read

Reading in Myanmar: They were five

No pictures, just some words describing a scene while waiting for a flight in the domestic terminal at Yangon Airport. They were five ...

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Audrey Chin

Jan 18, 20141 min read

Stepping out of the box

I’m stepping out of the box. The last three nights I’ve had nightmares. They were all related to one of my two WIPS’s – the one about a...

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Audrey Chin

Dec 17, 20131 min read

Reaching Out

Talking about Heart Bones on National Critics Choice

Here’s National Critics Choice’s video of the book chat about As the Heart Bones Break at Select Books https://oddznns.wordpress.com/2013...

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Audrey Chin

Nov 4, 20133 min read

Writers I Read: On The Dirt Road to Dystopia with Nadeem Aslam and Kim Young Ha

What is Dystopia? Does the Road to Dystopia need to be made of dirt? Are our modern and comfortable societies already on the road to...

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Writers I read: H.S. Kim and Waxing Moon

Audrey Chin

Oct 5, 20135 min read

Writers I read: H.S. Kim and Waxing Moon

Photo Credit: Amazon H.S. Kim is the author of Waxing Moon http://www.amazon.com/Waxing-Moon-H-S-Kim/dp/1937178382/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1/185...

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Audrey Chin

Sep 28, 20131 min read

Reaching Out

When the intangible becomes real

First there’s a whisper, next the words on paper and then the object begins to take shape … It becomes a physical book! I couldn’t have...

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Audrey Chin

Sep 21, 20134 min read

Does your writing transcend culture?

I thought I was a global person but it turns out I’m not … My novel As the Heart Bones Break is making its debut globally at Singapore...

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Dieting or writing – we still need to outwit our reptilian brains

Audrey Chin

Jun 12, 20133 min read

Dieting or writing – we still need to outwit our reptilian brains

Our writing-dieting selves like to think we’re all frontal lobe, all about visioning, reasoning, planning and problem solving. But hidden...

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Critiquing Can Make You a Better Writer… and Person

Audrey Chin

Jun 2, 20131 min read

Critiquing Can Make You a Better Writer… and Person

If you critique other writers work, your own writing improves. Everyone knows that. But can critiquing make you a better person? In my...

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Audrey Chin

May 13, 20133 min read

Where has your muse taken you?

No dear reader … it wasn’t me, it was my muse. First the spoiler – this coming of age tale of a Chinatown girl’s affair with her...

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A Singapore Thanksgiving – Should we be content with small blessings?

Audrey Chin

Nov 20, 20123 min read

A Singapore Thanksgiving – Should we be content with small blessings?

Some say this with disdain. But what’s not to love about buses and train systems that more or less work, even if they’re stuffed to the...

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Audrey Chin

Sep 30, 20124 min read

Mid-Autumn: Why on this night?

Moonlight over Clementi Rail Bridge Finally, 15th day of the 8th moon – Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon a beautiful yellow orb. The moon...

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Audrey Chin

Aug 25, 20122 min read

Money and Your Writing Life

Should you quit your job to write full time? Photo Credit: Xzactlycorp.com Writer’s Digest has just published agreat article by Jeff...

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Audrey Chin

Aug 22, 20122 min read