Metro Writers Blog

The way I see it, writing is more than a profession; it’s a calling. It’s an exploration for the exact nouns to define a subject and a...

When the modern science of analytics started to influence the way we market brands, something went dark in the soul of advertising....

I think my current reading habit started when I was a kid. From a young age, my happiest weekends in the mountains were spent being...

A lecturer invited to speak about poetry at my old university began his talk by taking off his clothes. As the astonished students looked...

I first interviewed Ha Anh for Oi Vietnam magazine back in 2015, before going on to collaborate with her on her grandparents' book...

Lower your expectations. The happiest authors are the ones that don't expect much. The best time to start promoting your book is three...

There has been some debate in our office as to what services should be covered under the category of "editing", and what our clients...

One of my favourite interviews with any Vietnamese celebrity ever has to be the 90 minutes I spent at Ru Nam café having coffee with...

When my father passed away in 2010, he was about halfway through writing a memoir. I found the fragments on his old, failing PC hard...

We’re entering a new world of storytelling, in which digital exists as an experience; a visceral exploration of a story outside of a...

Technology has made a lot of things about writing easier. You can save little scraps of information in Evernote, write and edit with...

Think for a moment about the billions of lives that were lived before ours – the lives of our people, the lives of our ancestors, each of...

If you’ve ever thought about the future, you may wonder what things will be like after you’ve gone and whether or not you’ll be...