I came across this personal statement on the website of a mainland college prep agency that specializes in writing such documents on behalf of university applicants. Since the company displayed the piece […]
College application essay makeover
A beauty who aged like fine wine
It was the mother of a primary school classmate – a woman of uncommon good looks – who gave me my first inkling of the kind of power female beauty can command: […]
「理想的年代，美麗的人」
「你真像剛從片場走出來啊！」大街上有陌生人跟我說。
Setting the scene
The scene is to be filmed in a diner in Los Angeles, but the story is set in Manhattan. Solution? Place neon signs outside the eatery and drizzle down artificial rain, so […]
Writing conclusions that work
“A rope is made up of a huge number of fibres, but not a single fibre goes through its entire length. It’s the way the fibres overlap that creates the rope’s strength,” […]
Writer as acrobat
“A writer, like an acrobat, must occasionally try a stunt that is too much for him,’ The New Yorker editorial writer E. B. White once counseled. I lack the nerve to knowingly […]
To write well, sweat the small stuff
It was only after My Fair Lady was showing in the cinemas that its set designer Cecil Beaton noticed a mistake he had overlooked: towards the end of the film, in the […]
在國安法的陰霾下，我的靈魂伴侶是…吳佩慈
這個題目聽起來好像很荒謬，我這個身處於水深火熱的香港、隨時觸犯國安法的獨立雙語作家，跟已搭上大陸富豪、每天過著養尊處優的生活的吳佩慈，按理說反差應該不能更大才對！怎能說她是我的靈魂伴侶？
