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How to Create Main Characters That Readers Will Love, Root For, and Remember
Crafting characters that will make your readers cry and cheer for them requires you to understand them deeply—inside and out. Here are my tips on writing real, relatable, and unforgettable characters.
Joyce Chua
20 hours ago6 min read
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Children of the Desert Q&A—Part I: Inspiration, Influences, and Inception
Answering your burning questions about my Chinese fantasy trilogy, starting with world-building and initial concepts!
Joyce Chua
Apr 205 min read
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Women in Creative Fields—Why We Should Be Both Jo March and Amy March
Jo March made me believe that it was possible to earn a living as a writer as long as I held on to that dream. So I set out to make a career out of my passion. Was that the right decision?
Joyce Chua
Apr 135 min read
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Creatives Need to Talk More About Money — We Don’t Need to All Be Starving Artists!
Creatives and money? Yes, they do go together! Let's discuss how we can achieve financial freedom and live that soft creative life.
Joyce Chua
Apr 95 min read
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Studio Ghibli is the Latest Victim of the Ever-Encroaching AI Machine
My feeds are now flooded with Ghibli-filtered photos. What does this flood of AI-generated "art" really mean for creatives?
Joyce Chua
Apr 36 min read
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Meta’s AI Theft Screwed Millions of Authors Over. Where Do We Go From Here?
Now that Meta has openly pirated 7.5 million authors' works, maybe it's time we revolutionise the way we create and consume content
Joyce Chua
Mar 276 min read
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8 Things I Learned From Being Published Again After 8 Years
It took me 8 years to get another publishing deal, and a lot has changed in that time. This is what I learned.
Joyce Chua
Mar 249 min read
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Creative Life Lessons: Do we have hope or do we have expectations?
Hope is a double-edged sword, and there's a danger in conflating it with expectation.
Joyce Chua
Mar 204 min read
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Twenty-Five Twenty-One got me back into K-dramas. Here's why
It took me three years to finally watch Twenty-Five Twenty-One and here are my thoughts about it. Read till the end for similar recs!
Joyce Chua
Feb 54 min read
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RedNote is the New Playground for TikTok Refugees, and The Tides Are Changing
I'm so invested in this enemies-to-lovers plot twist—the recent mass migration of Americatok to RedNote due to the impending TikTok ban.
Joyce Chua
Jan 163 min read
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