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Apr 05 2024 
1 retrospective and 5 reasons that will save 5 years of your creative life
Since the launch of my blog in December 2021, how did I manage to go from working 3 months to produce a 3-minute video, to creating two trilingual articles a month in addition to a 15-minute video a month? -
Mar 15 2024
Am I afraid of making mistakes when blogging in three languages?
There must be some mistakes in this article!
This March 2024, as I write these lines, my professional life is a race against time. Despite the hectic pace and stress, I refuse to miss our fortnightly rendez-vous. So, here’s a short,…
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Mar 05 2024
How to build a strong support network as a creative freelancer?
Being a creative freelancer can sometimes feel like walking a solitary path. When you choose this path, you quickly realize there's a gap between your daily life and that of those around you. -
Feb 15 2024
How did one negative feedback validate my choice of freelance?
"How did you know that you would not regret leaving a full-time permanent job to set up your own business?" This question is perhaps the one that I received most often, from the day I shared my intention to leave a stable, well-paid job, until today, two years after I started out as a freelance illustrator. -
Dec 15 2023
Catching up with the universe – The Present Writer gathering 2023
Strangely enough, for the past three years, the universe has been consistently saving one miracle for me every December. Even if just as surely enough, such miracle never just fell from the sky! It only happened after I pushed myself beyond my limits. -
Nov 15 2023
Creation story: Chi Nguyen – Creating The Present Writer is, actually, like polishing a diamond
What if today we were to discover the concrete steps (five polishing stages before having the diamond), which took Chi from a lambda student to a highly influential author, researcher and creator? -
Oct 15 2023
Hanoi, allow me to love you again.
"One day, when I was passing the King Ly Thai To statue by my house where little kids were driving in mini-cars, I saw a group of tourists huddled together, their faces lit up with joy as they eagerly snapped photos of the children." -
Sep 15 2023
Photographing three weddings to realize I won’t be… a wedding photographer
I'm a full-time illustrator, one of some very lucky humans being able to practice what she dreamed of doing ever since she was a child. However, before making a living out of my passion, I had a very "conventional" career path. -
Sep 05 2023
“Nhà” – Hello, Goodbye and Hello
In Vietnamese, there is this one very special word: "nhà". This word indicates the physical place where you live, be it a house, an apartment or a studio … And on the other side, this word also denotes a place you can call "home". For us, "nhà" means both a "house" and a "home". -
Mar 15 2023
Things that 10 years of working in safety have contributed to my creative life
Recently, my favorite author, Chi Nguyen, presented an exercise in a YouTube video entitled: Looking at your career as a book with many chapters.
The exercise consists of writing down the different “chapters” of our professional life, from the present moment,…
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