writing

Jun 13
6 min

From Blank Page to Published (Part 6): Publishing

As I am preparing for the second book to launch, I thought it was time to write this post on publishing to complete the series. For a sel...

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Y. Y. Chan

May 15
2 min

Officially Published!

This post is a couple of days late. But yes, I'm officially published! (In case you missed the memo...) You can check out my book here: m...

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From Blank Page to Published (Part 4): Writing the 'Other Stuff'

Y. Y. Chan

May 9
8 min

From Blank Page to Published (Part 4): Writing the 'Other Stuff'

While the books were being edited and illustrated, I started to work on writing the other stuff such as blurbs, author bio, acknowledgeme...

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More Updates! (Picture Book Launch Date: 13 May!)

Y. Y. Chan

May 8
4 min

More Updates! (Picture Book Launch Date: 13 May!)

So a lot of things happened over the last couple of weeks and I haven't had a chance to update as I have a lot of other things going on. ...

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From Blank Page to Published (Part 2): Editing

Y. Y. Chan

Apr 28
5 min

From Blank Page to Published (Part 2): Editing

Here is Part 2 of my self-publishing journey. I've been busy with a lot of little things over the last week(s) but also felt like I had h...

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From Blank Page to Published (Part 1): The First Draft

Y. Y. Chan

Apr 8
7 min

From Blank Page to Published (Part 1): The First Draft

I am going to write a series of blogposts on the whole process of writing my first book - from Blank Page to Published (and all the strug...

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What Haruki Murakami taught me about writing (re-sharing an old post)

Y. Y. Chan

Apr 2
2 min

What Haruki Murakami taught me about writing (re-sharing an old post)

Since I don’t have much to blog about yet, I will share something I wrote in February. (I apologise if you have already read this – you c...

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Y. Y. Chan

Mar 31
4 min

How the story was born

I started writing my first children’s book in February 2020, when the COVID-19 started to spread around Hong Kong, confining us to our homes

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