The Kent Ridge Common, 18 Apr 2009, Kelvin Teo
SINGAPORE - In an article published April 14th in The New Paper, MP Miss Irene Ng exhorted broke professionals out there who dreamt of writing a book to transform it into a reality. Miss Ng cited the success story of JK Rowling, then a single, struggling mother who finished her first novel when she was out of a job. The rest, they say is the stuff of legends.
Thus, the article’s title says it all:”During hard times, write”. I find there is nothing wrong with that advice because I believe in the freedom of creative expression. In fact, creative expression shouldn’t be limited to writing books alone. One can set up a web publication site like this one for instance. Even I write too, but that is for hobby purposes rather than a source of income.
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