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Hitting the high notes

By Michelle Ng on July 16, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Teach writing by dancing up a storm

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A beauty who aged like fine wine

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「理想的年代,美麗的人」

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Setting the scene

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Writing conclusions that work

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Writer as acrobat

By Michelle Ng on March 30, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“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

By Michelle Ng on March 27, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Michelle Ng on March 26, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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?

It’s the DSE English Language paper that deserves a bad grade

By Michelle Ng on March 20, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Recently, a Hong Kong parent reached out to me. My child has to sit for her DSE in a few weeks, she said. Can you help her tackle the writing section of […]

Learning the ABCs of persuasive writing from 陳茂波’s WSJ letter

By Michelle Ng on March 18, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Many people in Hong Kong cheered when the Wall Street Journal branded Paul Chan Mo-po (陳茂波) an “illusionist” for bothering to write to the paper to persuade its readers that Hong Kong […]

What’s buzzing?

By Michelle Ng on March 16, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

I think it’s pretty safe to assume that anyone who has watched Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s “Belle de Jour” (1967) – a film about a bored housewife moonlighting as a prostitute – […]

The power of the passive voice

By Michelle Ng on March 10, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“Rules are made to be broken.” This phrase sprang to mind after I read Buckingham Palace’s response to the interview Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had with Oprah. In our school days, […]

“A huge, bleeding effort”

By Michelle Ng on February 16, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

When I came across this piece on writer’s block written by the New Yorker cultural critic Joan Acocella – I’ve long been in awe of her uncanny ability to narrate complex content […]

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I'm Michelle Ng (吳若琦), an Oxford-educated bilingual writer and English writing coach based in Hong Kong. I'm currently an English columnist for Ming Pao, and a Chinese columnist for 眾新聞. I was previously an English columnist for Apple Daily, and have written for the Hong Kong Free Press, The Wall Street Journal and The Vancouver Sun

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