She was sixteen and I was nine. I was born and raised in Singapore, in a house where books did not have to jostle for space on the shelf. There was always room for another. Majority of the books were in English, and they comprised fiction and non-fiction while a handful were in Arabic, mostly […]
Who do you think you’re kidding? Writers’ dirty little secret — how to right-size Impostor Syndrome.
by Ruth Harris Fake it until you make it. It’s old advice, and for some people it works. Sometimes. But what if you’ve made it? You’ve finished your book (or books), you’ve been published or you self-published. You’ve sold copies, you’ve received checks from your agent, your publisher or from Amazon and iBooks, you’ve been […]
25 Gift Ideas For The Writer In Your Life
by Ruth Harris It is a truth universally acknowledged that no writer ever knows when or where his/her next great idea will strike. Because of that inconvenient fact, notebooks are essential. Although the back of a grocery receipt or a dry cleaner’s ticket will do in an emergency, a notebook will help create order out […]