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šŸ‡øšŸ‡¬ Journalist, writer and activist. Champion of clauses. Author of The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope (Ethos Books, 2023)

Aug 15, 2020, 6 tweets

Here's this week's #wethecitizens round-up! You'll notice that it has new art! @feever_dreem made the newsletter a new banner, logo, and portrait photo šŸ˜wethecitizens.substack.com/p/dormitoriesp…

We all know 2020 sucks, but it's also the year I decided to take a plunge with #wethecitizens. I've been really encouraged by the response — thank you everyone! Milo Peng Funders help keep my work independent, and it's also enabled me to devote some time to *writing a book* 😬

After stopping and starting and, at one point this year, essentially deleting 18,000 words I'd written in 2019, I finally feel like I'm on an actual path to writing my book now. And I couldn't have done it without Milo Peng Funders.

Milo Peng Funders' subscriptions to #wethecitizens have freed me up from having to pitch/freelance as intensely as I would otherwise need to. It's given me more time and headspace — something I just didn't have in the past few years.

It doesn't mean that writing the book is now a breeze, but it does mean that I can devote whole days to it, rather than try to squeeze words out of an exhausted, stressed out mind at the end of a work day. That makes *a lot* of difference.

So this is just a longish way of saying that I really appreciate everyone who has been so supportive. And also that you can become a Milo Peng Funder too at wethecitizens.substack.com

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